Educating the "New" Green workforce

Students will have the opportunity to complement their majors with environmental courses, preparing them to enter the "green" workforce. Demand is building for such well-rounded workers, with recent studies suggesting the renewable energy job market nationwide could create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030.

"As a proud Colorado State alumni, I have seen first-hand the world-class education our institution offers at the undergraduate and graduate studies level," said U.S. Senator Wayne Allard. "I am confident the creation of the new School of Global Environmental Sustainability will maintain our proud tradition of excellence and prepare students to help the world meet the global environmental challenges."

The School will prepare students to be trained in areas such as:

• Biodiversity loss
• Climate and atmospheric change
• Land use change
• Society and environment
• Sustainable enterprise
• Geospatial science
• Public policy
• Soils and carbon cycling
• Human, plant and animal disease
• Crops and global food economies
• Water management
• Economic issues including carbon offsets
• Land and forest conservation and management
• Renewable and sustainable energy technologies