Career Exploration
Sustainability is more than just recycling, reducing waste, using less energy and water, or choosing eco-friendly products. Yes, those aspects are important, but sustainability is so much more. Sustainability encompasses environmental, social, and economic factors which means sustainability can and should be incorporated into every career.
Explore below to learn ways to bring sustainability to your future career.
"To do good, you actually have to do something."
-Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia
Ways to bring sustainability to your future career
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Climate solutions and climate careers: Learn how to find your role in the climate fight whether that be in a new career or in the career you already have.
Project Drawdown: Learn about climate actions that can be taken in common professions by downloading "Climate Solutions at Work" for free.
How to Build a Career in Sustainability: Learn how to make an impact in the climate fight without becoming a scientist.
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8 Ways to Bring Sustainability Into Any Job: Learn ways to advance sustainability in the job you already have.
7 Steps to Start Your Career in Sustainability: If you are interested in a sustainability career check out Northeastern University’s step by step list to help you navigate your journey.
Don't know how to connect sustainability to your degree? Don't worry learn how to here.
Explore the Stewart Library Research Guide to learn more about sustainability.
Related Media
Hardware to Save a Planet: This podcast explores the technical innovations that are giving us hope in the fight against climate change.
The Sustainable(ish) Podcast: Get inspired by people doing wonderful things to help us all live a bit more sustainably.
Sustainability Defined: Learn about specific topics that are pushing sustainability forward.
College of Arts & Humanities
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Hower Impact: A blog about communication and marketing regarding sustainability
Hower Impact Job Board: Look at real life examples of how people utilize an Arts & Humanities degree in the sustainability realm.
Incorporating Sustainability into Your Art: Learn how artists today use their work to forward climate action.
Art and Creativity: Essential Components of Sustainability: Read about all the ways art can promote sustainability.
Examples of Change
James McGowan: Check out this article about James McGowan, a sustainability marketing leader.
Margot McMahon: Check out this interview with an artist who's art brings light to coral bleaching.
Erika Osborne: Check out this interview with an associate professor in Colorado State University's Department of Art and Art History and learn how she promotes sustainability through her art work.
Isabella Li Kostrzewa: Learn more about the founder of Isaboko, a revolutionary fashion brand that reimagines the future of sustainable clothing.
Related Media
How to Make it in Sustainability Communications: A YouTube video from the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCATV), the largest PR association consisting of 35,000 professionals in 82 countries.
The Sustainability Communicator: Explore corporate sustainability and storytelling.
How to choose clothes for longevity, not the landfill: Watch this Ted Talk to learn about three sustainable principles needed in the fashion industry.
How to revive a neighborhood: Learn how an artist uses abandoned buildings to change his neighborhood.
School of Business & Economics
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Edie: Explore this site to learn how to make business more sustainable.
Environmental Economist: What is an Environmental Economist?
Integrating Sustainability into Business: Learn about the importance of integrating sustainability into every business from the founder of ROWSTEL.
Economic Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices: Learn about the necessity of integrating sustainability into core business operations from The Carbon Stamp.
Examples of Change
Alissa Brueckner: Read this interview, "Forging a career in sustainability: An economics graduate's path" with a economics major that brought sustainability to her career.
Kate Raworth: The author of "Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist."
Tim Jackson: A British ecological economist and professor for sustainable development at the University of Surrey.
Related Media
The Sustainability Communicator: Explore corporate sustainability and storytelling.
The TED Interview: "Kate Raworth argues that rethinking economics can save our planet" Learn how the changing climate changed the view of an economist.
Doughnut Economics: Check out this selection of presentations from Kate Raworth.
De-growth and the Care Economy: In a world that needs to constantly grow is green growth possible? Find out listening to this podcast episode with Tim Jackson.
College of Health Professions
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Green City Times: Read "The Green Revolution in Healthcare: Primary Care Doctors and Eco-Friendly Initiatives" to learn more about the changes that are being made to help patients' health directly and indirectly.
Practice Greenhealth: Explore this website to learn more about sustainable solutions in healthcare.
Why sustainability?: Learn more about the importance of sustainability in healthcare.
Examples of Change
Peter Weir: Check out this video about the Chief Population Health Officer at U Health. His goal is to create compassionate and financially sustainable models that address the unmet needs of his patients.
Population Health: Check out this site to see what the Office of Population Health at University of Utah Health is doing to reimagine healthcare across Utah.
Steven Hayworth: Check out this video about the Director of Population Health at University of Utah Health and his work in broadening the definition of health.
Related Media
State of Reform: Learn how states across the country are trying to improve people's health and the healthcare system. To learn why this is important to sustainability, revisit Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Imagine creating a sustainable health system: Watch this short video to learn what can happen if sustainability was incorporated into the healthcare system.
College of Social Sciences & Education
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Teaching Sustainability: Learn how to offer students who would not normally learn about sustainability
Sustainable Futures: Learn five ways social science can help us understand change.
Sustainable Urban Development: Explore this website to learn more about sustainable planning and management from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
How to use psychology for sustainability and climate justice: Learn how your psychology major can advance sustainability.
Examples of Change
Jeff Speck: A city planner and architectural designer who advocates for more walkable cities.
Sarah Herrmann: A WSU professor that is studying the benefits of indoor plants in college classrooms.
HEAL Utah: Check out an organization that has led Utah's environmental protection efforts by creating community-driven policies and solution to pressing challenges.
Vinu Daniel: Check out this TED Talk about building resilient sustainable buildings with mud and trash.
Related Media
Read this paper to learn more about the importance of integrating sustainability into curriculum.
Check out SUWA's podcast talking about Southern Utah Wilderness.
Check out Careers with Stem to learn how you can connect your degree to the environment.
How to revive a neighborhood: Learn how an artist uses abandoned buildings to change his neighborhood.
College of Engineering, Applied Science & Technology
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A Guide to Sustainable Engineering Practices: Visit this site to better understand the role of engineers in sustainability.
5 Top Environmental Engineering Companies: Check out what the top 5 companies are doing and if they are hiring.
Sustainability Engineering: Learn more about sustainability engineering and how it can be incorporated into civil engineering projects from UGREEN.
Engineering for the Future: Check out these 5 examples of sustainable engineering.
Examples of Change
Ulteig: Check out this Utah based company that wants to transform the world's critical infrastructure through sustainable solutions.
Lacey Reddix: Sustainable Mining? Check out this interview with the CEO of Olokun Minerals who is reducing the environmental impact associated with conventional mining.
Vinu Daniel: Check out this TED Talk about building resilient sustainable buildings with mud and trash.
Related Media
American Society of Civil Engineers: Check out these publications related to sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
Sustainability & Resilience Community of Practice: Visit this site to stay up to date on anything sustainable happening with civil engineering.
The beauty of building with mud and trash: Check out this Ted Talk about using waste to create resilient and sustainable buildings.
College of Science
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Natural with numbers? Explore Careers with Stem to learn how to connect math and nature together.
Sustainability in Microbiology Labs: Learn how to reduce the environmental impact labs produce.
Green Jobs for Physics Majors: Read this article to find out what you can do with your technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Examples of Change
Lacey Reddix: Sustainable Mining? Check out this interview with the CEO of Olokun Minerals who is reducing the environmental impact associated with conventional mining.
HEAL Utah: Check out an organization that has led Utah's environmental protection efforts by creating community-driven policies and solution to pressing challenges.
SUWA: Check out this website to learn more about the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
Related Media
Check out Careers with Stem to learn how you can connect your degree to the environment.
BBC Earth Podcast: Fascinating and funny stories from around the natural world.
How to Save a Planet: Talking about climate change can be overwhelming. This podcast claims to leave you feeling energized after each episode.