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Sustainability Careers Quiz

Find your sustainability focus.

Which area of sustainability will help you make the most impact?

Sustainability as a field is only growing but there are three core areas any climate champion should consider: policy and science, environmental education, and sustainable business. All three of these categories are critical to building a sustainable future. Where should you put your focus? And what kind of sustainability programs are available for you to develop skills in those areas?

Take the Quiz to Find Out

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Find Your Sustainability Focus

I would rather...

Lead a nature walk at a summer camp

Work with community leaders to develop new recycling policies.

Pitch a business that’s designed to conserve water by incentivizing rain barrel installation for lawn care.

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If I could accomplish one thing, it would be something like...

Passing the Green New Deal.

Incorporating environmental education into the K-12 curriculum nationwide.

Creating a lending platform that helps low-income families and others in need to access home ownership.

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My perfect internship is at...

An urban ecological education center.

Etsy - on the sustainability team.

The World Resources Institute in Washington, DC

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When it comes to climate change, my biggest concerns are...

Human rights and environmental justice. How will it aggravate inequality?

The next generation - will they even have an environment to live in? And will they have the tools to protect it?

The ways we can fix it. How can we not only incentivize zero waste but an economic system that gives back more than it takes?

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In my future sustainability career, my worst nightmare would be...

If the idea of "the environment" became a luxury that only some people can afford.

To discover that my consulting work is being used to help greenwash - and not create any real change.

The destruction of decades of environmental policies and protections.

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The word that best describes me is...

Disruptor

Activist

Visionary

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Environmental Education Master's program

A career in environmental education means changing minds through professions such as teacher, education coordinator, or non-profit leader (just to name a few). The best part? This work can be done in a variety of settings: a classroom, a rooftop or community garden, a riverbank, or a park, even.

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Change the Rules

Science and policy-related sustainability programs

With an environmental master’s degree, you can work in government (global, national, state, or local), in large businesses or nonprofits, or even “outside the system” in NGOs, advocating, researching, and lobbying to change the status quo. 

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Change the Game

Redefining "business as usual" with a master's in sustainable business

Within the confines of the existing rules, the business leaders of the future are building financially viable organizations, both for-profit and nonprofit, that directly solve social and environmental problems.