An education based in human ecology can greatly benefit interior designers as they work to understand and improve the human condition. Design programs housed in colleges focusing on human ecology can improve the interior design profession by taking advantage of their home base and emphasizing the human ecological framework in the design curricula. Accredited interior design programs with a human ecological focus offer great potential to positively affect the sustainability of life on earth and to improve the quality of life. Considering recent trends to realign programs within colleges of human sciences with other academic units, it is important to articulate and convey the unique educational missions served by interior design programs in human ecology. Many of the pressing social and environmental problems that have an impact on the world and its people can best be addressed by the scholars and professionals whose approach to problem solving has been shaped by a foundation with a human ecological context. These professionals have " ... a way of thinking about the world, and a context in which people define their questions and ways to answer those questions ... " (University of Oxford, n.d.) that is aimed at "find[ing] new and better ways of arranging lives, businesses and societies, ways that reduce poverty and inequality, reduce the amount of resources people use, restore the environment and improve quality of life for all now and for generations to come." (Contains 1 figure.)