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Green Careers Week: Inspiring the next generation
Green Careers Week: Inspiring the next generation
Green Careers Week is a fantastic opportunity to inspire you to consider careers that help protect our planet. Take a look at our brilliant range of resources that build awareness of the opportunities available, reinforce skill development, and highlight career paths and qualifications needed. Whether a you are heading to university, an apprenticeship or employment you can find the right pathway for you!
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To climate change or not?
No one would dispute that climate change is one of the biggest threats that we all face over the forthcoming generations, or would we?
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How studying plants will help us to build a sustainable future
What can we do about a growing human population, increasing demand for food, a shrinking supply of resources, and perhaps most importantly the threat of climate change? Understanding plant biology and ecology is now more important than ever before.
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Zero Emission Energy from the heat beneath our feet
What if there was a source of energy that could be accessed anywhere in the world to generate heating, cooling, or electricity – that was low cost, zero emissions, and always available?
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De-carbonising Ammonia: alternatives to the Haber Bosch process?
Ammonia is an extremely valuable commodity used in a huge range of commercial products from cleaning agents to plastics production to refrigerants and to nitrate fertilizers. Ammonia is produced industrially on a vast scale.
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Save the world – the best way you know how
Independent Filmmaker Andy Clark tells us how he wound up making films to change the world, and shares his advice on using your natural talents to follow your dreams.
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GCW article: How do you deal with 20 million tonnes of suffocating seaweed?
Seaweed is causing havoc in our oceans. Together, scientists from Mexico and the UK are working hard to find inventive solutions to the seaweed which washes onto shores every summer in the Caribbean.
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Showing the Path to Green Jobs
This is a guide for support staff in FE and HE to help understand what 'green jobs' mean in practice and how to communicate inclusively around the topic.
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ESA Climate Detectives
Students aged 8 to 19 are called to make a difference by identifying a climate problem, investigating it, and proposing a way to help reduce the problem.
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Virtual Careers Fair: Careers in climate change
A 360 degree online careers exhibition aimed at supporting young people to explore the work of those mitigating and adapting to the challenge of climate change.
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Career video: Environmental Consultant
Watch as Sujith discusses being an environmental consultant, and how the job enables him to make a difference and improve our environment.
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Green energy: What is the best design for a wind turbine?
This resource provides a set of videos of a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science to real world experiences, presented by Professor Brian Cox and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
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Be a landscape architect
Take a look at some landscape professional profiles and dive into a careers brochure illustrating the vast amount of green career opportunities awaiting in the industry.
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This is Engineering: engineers can change the world
Part of a fantastic wider campaign, this video is a brilliant introduction to the positive impact that engineers make on our world.
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Environment Agency Opportunities - Your Career - Springpod
Springpod’s virtual work experience programme provides an inside look at the Environment Agency and its vital role in creating better places for people and wildlife.
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Careers at the Environment Agency
Careers with the Environment Agency give you the opportunity to grow, stretch and learn new skills. Learn more by visiting the Environment Agency careers website.
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