College students see clean energy careers – Climate Change – MSNBC.com

College students are making their feelings known – not with violence or protests, but simply by their class enrollment. Clean energy and environmental engineering courses are filling up beyond capacity at many US colleges and universities. Schools are taking cues from their students’ actions and cleaning up their own acts with enviormental improvements around campus.

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College students see clean energy careers – Climate Change – MSNBC.com
BERKELEY, Calif. – Concern over global warming has more U.S. college students looking into careers in alternative energy, leading U.S. universities to add new courses on clean energy technologies and the environment.

“Students see an opportunity for challenging jobs and a way to do some good for the planet,” Dan Kammen, an energy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said.