Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Heading into the holidays, college seniors face uniquely hard times: a very tough environment for jobs, high debt. So, it’s doubly important that they spend serious time during the break thinking about their future.

Here’s a holiday offer (please forward widely): I am glad to help out with career counseling. For any student interested in discussing a future in sustainability, I am glad to talk by phone. Just drop me an e-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Here’s my basic message: We are living at an extraordinary moment in human history. The work that today’s young people will do over their lives will have a profound effect on every creature that will ever inhabit the planet, from now until the end of time. This is truly the most exciting, most decisive, most human time to ever be alive.

Today, there are so many ways to have an impact, to be an agent of history. And there are multiple entry points into this good work. The jobs are there. The mission of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is to help people find their own pathway to leadership in sustainability, building high-impact careers in business, government or non-profits, that will change the world.

For students who get sustainability, and who get how important their lives’ work might be, they do not have the luxury of delay. To stabilize the global climate, they have to start changing the future before they turn thirty.

More on this topic next Wednesday on the National Climate Seminar from Generation Hot author Mark Hertsgaard. And please help us spread the word about our C2C Fellows workshops. It’s not too late for students to apply for the Bard training the weekend of December 2^nd, featuring Keynote Speaker, Majora Carter.

Thanks for the work you are doing. And please, let your students know about this sustainability career hotline!