Environmental Careers and Internships

National Broad-Coverage Job/Internship Boards  American Planning Association http://www.planning.org/jobs/search/  Conservation Job Board http://www.conservationjobboard.com/  Eco.org http://www.eco.org/  ecobusinesslinks http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/environmental_jobs/  Ecojobs http://www.ecojobs.com/  EElinked http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/eelink-jobs  Environment America http://jobs.environmentamerica.org/  Environmental Career Center http://environmentalcareer.com/  EnvironmentalJobs.com http://www.environmentaljobs.com/  Environmental Jobs and Careers http://www.ecoemploy.com/  Intern Match http://www.internmatch.com/s/environment-internships  National Council for Science and the Environment, Environmental Internship Clearinghouse http://environmentalinterns.ncseonline.org/  Orion Magazine http://jobs.oriongrassroots.org/  SustainableBusiness.com http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/greendreamjobs.main  USAJobs Internships https://www.usajobs.gov/studentjobs/  Wildlife and Fisheries job board http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/job-board/

Government Agencies Jobs  Illinois http://work.illinois.gov/  Federal http://www.usajobs.gov/  Indiana http://www.in.gov/spd/careers/  Missouri http://www.mo.gov/work/job-seekers/state-job-openings/ 

Placement Agencies that Include Environmental Jobs  http://www.aerotek.com/employment-agency/  http://www.sequencestaffing.com/environmental-scientist_446.html.

Specific Internship/Volunteer Opportunities (focused on Illinois, locations with multiple online ENS students, and more prestigious programs)  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield) http://www.alplm.org/education/interns.html  Allerton Park (Monticello, IL) http://allerton.illinois.edu/volunteer-at-allerton/  Center for Health, Environment & Justice (Falls Church, VA) http://chej.org/about/jobs- internships/  Champaign County Forest Preserve District http://www.ccfpd.org/GetInvolved/Volunteer.html  Chicagoland Environmental Network http://www.chicagoenvironment.org/jobintern/  Citizens Campaign for the Environment (New England) http://www.citizenscampaign.org/about.asp  Dick Durbin offices (Chicago, Springfield, Rock Island, and Carbondale) http://www.durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/internships-in-illinois  Environment American Internships (nationwide) http://jobs.environmentamerica.org/page/amr/internships-make-difference  Environmental Working Group (mainly Washington, DC) http://www.ewg.org/about-us/job- openings  Grand Prairie Friends (east-central Illinois) http://grandprairiefriends.org/gettinginvolved.html  Hanson Professional Services http://www.hanson-inc.com/images/Vision/pdfs/PDF-intern.pdf  Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (nationwide, but mainly Washington, DC) http://www.hacu.net/hacu/HNIP.asp  IDNR Volunteers (statewide, but mainly Springfield) http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/outreach/Volunteer/Pages/default.aspx  IEPA Governor’s Environmental Corps (statewide, but mainly Springfield) http://www.epa.state.il.us/gec/  IEPA Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Internship Program (Springfield) http://www.epa.state.il.us/p2/internships/index.html  Illinois Chapter, Sierra Club (statewide) http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/Volunteer  Illinois GIS Association (varies annually) http://www.ilgisa.org/Jobs/Internships.aspx  Illinois Governor’s Office (Springfield and Chicago) http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/Opportunities.aspx  Illinois Green Business Association (statewide, but mainly Champaign) http://www.illinoisgba.org/AboutIGBA/InternshipOpportunities.aspx  Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (statewide) http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3307_3580_32729---,00.html  Minnesota Department of Natural Resources http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/jobs/internships/index.html  National Aquarium (Baltimore) http://www.aqua.org/jobs/internships-baltimore  National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (Washington, DC) http://www.nafeointernships.net/home.php  National Congress of American Indians (Washington, DC) http://www.ncai.org/about- ncai/internships-fellowships  Pathways to Science (summer, undergrad only, nationwide) http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/programs.asp?descriptorhub=SummerResearch_Summer %20Research%20Opportunity  Prairie Rivers Network (statewide, but mainly Champaign) http://prairierivers.org/volunteer/  School for Field Studies (global) http://www.fieldstudies.org/careers/internships  SFEnvironment (San Francisco) http://www.sfenvironment.org/about/intern  Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Maryland) http://www.serc.si.edu/pro_training/internships/internships.aspx  Student Conservation Association (nationwide) http://www.thesca.org/serve/internships  Sustainable Springfield http://sustainablespringfield.org/internships/  Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (Chicago) http://sise.phy.uic.edu/  The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/about-us/careers/index.htm?intc=nature.fnav  The Washington Center (Washington, DC) http://www.twc.edu/internships  UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Internships (Santa Cruz County, CA) http://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/available-internships/index.html  United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for North America Internship (Washington, DC) http://rona.unep.org/internships/  US EPA (nationwide) http://www.epa.gov/careers/internships/index.html  White House Council on Environmental Quality (Washington, DC) http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/internships/ceq-internships  Wilson Center Environmental Change and Security Program (Washington, DC) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/internships-the-environmental-change-and-security- program  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources http://dnr.wi.gov/employment/emp/internships.html  Wolf Hollow Wildlife Restoration Center (Washington state) http://wolfhollowwildlife.org/volunteer/  Environmental Law & Policy Center (Midwest, mainly Chicago) http://elpc.org/category/jobs  Ohio Environmental Council (statewide) http://www.theoec.org/Careers

Opportunities can also be created by contacting environmental organizations in your state. http://www.eco-usa.net/orgs/