Green Careers Week
To celebrate Green Careers Week and highlight the links between geography and green careers, browse a selection of free-to access resources that can be embedded into your geography lessons to show students where geography could take them.
What is a green career?
A green career can be any job that contributes to the protection, preservation or restoration of the environment, helping to create a sustainable future for people and planet. It can be considered a job that helps to mitigate the impacts of environmental challenges and contributes to a sustainable future.
How does geography support green careers?
Studying geography provides students with excellent knowledge and skills necessary to accessing a green career. Geographers have an exceptional understanding of global challenges like climate change, resource security and biodiversity loss, and are uniquely aware of how these challenges interconnect politically and to the economic landscape.
Geographers are also critical thinkers, able to unpick, examine and deconstruct complex concepts. They are problem solvers, team players and excellent communicators – all essential attributes to a green career.
How can you embed green careers into your geography curriculum?
Help your students explore the range of green careers available to them if they choose to study geography. Explore how geographers working in environmental consultancy, sustainability, conservation and GIS use their geographical expertise to help create a greener future.
Careers in river landscapes webinar recording
View our webinar featuring four geographers working to help reduce river flood risk, in green roles such as Hydrologist, Flood Risk Analyst and Environmental Consultant
Geographical careers in the conservation sector
Find out how National Trust Area Ranger, Chris, uses geographical knowledge and skills to help protect Formby Beach.
National Education Nature Park posters
Check out our posters that we created with Education Nature Park, showcasing links between geography and green careers and apprenticeships.
Get virtual work experience
Head to the Springpod website and sign up to access our free virtual work experience on Careers Using Geography.
The programme features an Ecologist and Environmental consultant specialising in flood risk and coastal geomorphology, and an Energy Officer working to support decarbonisation projects in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Ask the Geographer podcast series
Listen to Ask the Geographer, our Schools podcast, featuring A Level curriculum-linked discussions with expert geographers on the most fascinating and relevant topics in geography, including professionals in sustainability, energy, climatology and more.
Sustainable cities with Professor James Evans
Professor James Evans from University of Manchester talks about the development of smarter and more sustainable cities.
21st Century Challenges with Professor Mark Maslin
We talk to Mark Maslin about climate change and the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.
Nature-based solutions to climate change with Dr Stephen Cornelius
Dr Stephen Cornelius from WWF explains how ecosystems can be part of the response to climate change.
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RGS Student Membership is free for all students from GCSE through undergraduate level.
Student Members can access support and resources, community and networking events, as well as study and exam support, events and webinars on securing work experience, the university application process, and green careers in a variety of sectors.