Treetop Barbie: Barbie has been interested in many things besides modeling clothes and partying with her friends. She has loved being outside and climbing trees since she was a little girl. She pays attention to her looks and in staying fit, which is great for a lot of reasons, including being able to do amazing outdoor activities like climbing 200 foot tall trees. She has lots of friends who come over to her house and who also go on camping and climbing trips with her. She recently started climbing trees and studying forest canopies. Everyone thinks she is cool because of all the different things she can do. Her biggest “action item” these days is working to help the planet. For more information: See www.evergreen.edu/ican/main/ttb.html.

Dr. Nalini M. Nadkarni is a professor at The Evergreen State College who studies forest canopies and teaches forest ecology. She climbs trees to study the plants and animals that live in the trees in tropical rainforests of Costa Rica and temperate rainforests of Washington State. She is really interested in mosses and plants and all the different things about trees that make them important to human beings. She’s been featured in magazines and on television programs like Bill Nye the Science Guy and National Geographic to tell people about the tree top world. She recently met Barbie and taught her how to climb trees to study the plants and animals that live in the treetops. Dr. Nadkarni loves to teach other young girls how to climb and what a great career field ecology is for women. She has a husband and two children (Gus is 16, Erika is 13), and they reside in the Olympia, Washington area.

The Environmental Career Center has been helping people work for a better environment since 1980. ECC operates a comprehensive environmental niche job board and free resume posting service at EnvironmentalCareer.com. The inaugural issue of their Green Careers Journal will be published in January 2006. ECC also researches environmental and sustainability employment trends and conducts environmental career seminars nationwide and internationally. For more information: See www.environmentalcareer.com or call 800-639-0745.

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