Environmental Townhall College Major and Career Research

Try using these sites and keywords to  research your potential future college major and/or career, and how it will be affected by climate change and other environmental issues.

Keyword tips: I used climate change here as an example of an environmental problem, but in any of these searches you can replace the words climate change with any other environmental issue. Ex: air pollution impact on medical profession, water pollution and veterinary science. 

Climate change and [career or major], impact of climate change on [career or major], role of [career] in climate adaptation, role of [career] in climate mitigation, sustainable [career], sustainability and [career], green [career] --for example green engineering, [career name] and climate change, climate change challenges for [career], [career] and environmental justice

Keep in mind that the site operator search for site:.edu might be especially helpful for this part of the project, as you are focusing on majors.

ALL MAJORS/CAREERS

1. Climatebase: Recommended to us by a Sustainable Business student at Haas Business School at U.C. Berkeley

2. World Bank: How climate change will affect various jobs around the world

3. World Economic Forum: How climate change will affect various jobs around the world

4. U.C. Davis' idea of what majors best fight climate change

ANIMAL SCIENCES (Veterinary Science, Entomology, Zoology, etc.)

1. Academic journal article on climate change and veterinary medicine

2. Climate Change and Animal Health (from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.)

3. What Climate Change Means for Veterinary Health (from the Bowman Report, a veterinarians' magazine)

4. Veterinary profession impact on climate change: From another veterinarians' magazine, this article takes the opposite approach and talks about how veterinarians can lower their own carbon footprint.

5. Academic journal article, "Empowering Veterinarians to Be Planetary Health Stewards Through Policy and Practice"

6. Video from the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association on climate change and the veterinary profession, featuring various professionals speaking. Their chosen focus for their 2021 annual conference was climate change.

7. Entomological Society of America position statement on climate change

8. Entomologists Issue Warning About Effects of Climate Change on Insects

9. Pollinators affected by climate change

10. Climate Crisis from the Lens of a Zoologist: A zoology student explains why students of this major should care about climate change

11. Entomology: Insect Decline

12. Entomology: Insect Decline

ART, MUSIC, VISUAL DESIGN

1. Yale Climate Connections: "8 Artists Who Are Grappling with Climate Change"

2. Yale University News, "Combining Art and Data to Spur Climate Action"

3. U.S. Global Change Research Program

4. Art as a tool for environmental justice, Stanford

5. An example of art being used to comment on environmental injustice, Chicago

6. Waking Up to No Sound: Music Psychology and Climate Action (Boston University). This page tackles some really cool questions, like "how can musicians help create a more sustainable future?"

7. TIME magazine, Music and Climate Change

8. Visual design: "Art that integrates data visualizations can help bridge the US political divide over climate change." University of Wisconsin.

9. MIT: Music and climate

10. University of Washington article arguing musicians could do more for climate

BIOLOGY AND MEDICAL FIELDS (includes Biochem, Neurobio, Biotech, Kinesiology, Psychology, etc.)

1. From a UK school, how is bioscience helping fight climate change

2. Harvard--what can you do w/ bio degree

3. TIME Magazine, "How Psychology Can Help Fight Climate Change—And Climate Anxiety"

4.  NYU: Psychology and Climate

5. Biochem and Climate

6. Yale, "Is distress about climate change associated with climate action?" (psych)

7. Active living and population health, climate (kinesiology, sports med, etc)

8. Yale Climate Connections, "Five ways climate change makes it harder for doctors to help their patients"

9. Role of Health Professionals...

10. New era of climate medicine

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS (includes Business Administration, Marketing, Advertising, International Business, Finance)

1. "Climate Change as a Marketing Opportunity"

2. Harvard Business School

3. Forbes Magazine, climate risks to business

4. Haarlem University of Applied Sciences: sustainable business

5. MIT, "Can We Afford Sustainable Business?"

6. Harvard Business School --business and environmental justice

7. Stanford, the business of climate justice

COMMUNICATIONS, ENGLISH, AND JOURNALISM

1. BBC--Why Climate Change Should Be at the Heart of Modern Journalism

2. 5 Ways Media Can Support Climate Action (UN)

3. Reuters: How to Fix Climate Journalism

4. Harvard Center for Health Communication--how do we communicate effectively about climate?

5. Society of Environmental Journalists

6. Best environmental journalism of 2022

POLITICAL SCIENCE/POLI-SCI

1. Opinion article, Japan Times, "Climate Change is Political and We Must Treat It That Way"

2. Pew Research, what data says about American's view on climate

3. Republican views on climate (PEW Research also)

4. Brookings Institute: public views on climate

5. Climate Change Laws of the World (Columbia Univ.)

6. NY Times articles on climate legislation

7. American Sociological Association: Climate Denial

8. Nature Journal, Climate Denial, "The social anatomy of climate change denial in the United States"

ENGINEERING FIELDS, INCLUDING COMPUTER SCIENCE  (includes UX design and AI)

1. National Academy of Sciences: Engineering Response to Climate Change

2. Univ. of CO--why don't engineers change as climate does

3. "Tackling Climate Change: The Role of the Engineer"

4. Project Drawdown

5. National Academies: Computer Science and Climate

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

1. Bureau of Labor Statistics

2. Dept. of Labor Green Jobs Stats

2. U.C. Davis "13 Majors"

3. APA: Career in Env. Psych

4. What does an environmental scientist do? Purdue Univ.

HOSPITALITY

1. University of Central Florida, why is sustainability in the hospitality industry important?

2. Forbes Magazine, "Implementing Sustainability into the Hospitality Industry"

3.  Climate Change and the tourist industry in Hawaii

4. National Geographic, How 'Net Zero' Hotels Could Make Travel More Climate Friendly

INTERIOR DESIGN

1. New York School of Interior Design's "Master of Professional Studies in Sustainable Interior Environments" major. This is a good example of how most college departments are incorporating sustainability now.

2. Design Institute of San Diego, "Five Principles of Sustainable Interior Design"

3. Rochester Institute of Technology, Spotlight on Sustainable Interior Design