Shaping Green Futures: Environmental Literacy for Youth​

Designed for high school students exploring environmental careers

Duration: 2 hours online + 3 hours in-class
Format: Hybrid
Cost: Free
Certification: Certificate + LinkedIn Badge

About This Course

Environmental careers help protect natural resources, support sustainability, and address environmental challenges. This course explores a wide range of roles—from fieldwork and research to policy, education, and technology—across different work environments.

Learners gain insight into career paths, required skills, and daily responsibilities through real examples. The course also highlights growing opportunities in Canada driven by climate action and clean technology.

It emphasizes key transferable skills like problem solving, communication, and adaptability, and outlines various education pathways, helping learners identify careers that match their interests and goals.

What You Will Learn

  • How environmental careers are structured
  • Real examples of roles and day-to-day work
  • Key skills needed in the environmental sector
  • Emerging trends in Canada’s green workforce
  • Education and career pathways

Skills You Will Gain

  • Problem solving
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Digital literacy
  • Career awareness

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Land Acknowledgment

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.