Shallotte has environmental and ecological consultants available for hire. Environment and ecological consulting is an interdsciplinary field, with professional from both scientific and social studies background, who work together to find solutions of sustainability to environmental and ecological problems. Man, due to indiscriminate use of natural resources and high levels of pollution generation, has made it imperative now to be much more careful in how we approach natural resource use. This is for our own future. Sustainability is thus the new global buzzword, in which progress is made in such a fashion that future generations don't have to pay the price for it. For example, many new buildings come with a green certification, which signifies it is environmentally friendly, consuming either less or equal energy as it generates. Some of the fields in which these consultants in Shallotte may offer their services include urban planning, sustainability management, emergency planning, natural resource management, sustainable engineering, environmental impact assessment, and strategizing water resource use.