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Business of Green (NY Times)

A special section in today's New York Times focuses on green collar jobs, green college majors, business opportunities, zero-energy homebuilding, and investing. What collar am I?

Business of Green: A Special Section

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The lead story in this section, "Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar," explores the novelty of the green-job concept. It sounds like a green-collar job is a blue-collar job that doesn't harm the environment. Some say you can only call a job "green" if it helps the environment, or if it's super-healthy for the worker.

Manufacturing is leaving the U.S. and taking jobs with it. No one has come out against job creation, but some conservative groups say the government shouldn't be pushing the country toward green-ness, even if jobs are created. Others, like the Apollo Alliance, propose creating tax incentives that in turn would create green jobs.

Can anyone say how many such jobs there are (it's in the millions), whether green jobs are net new jobs, or what makes a job green?

Is my job green? Is yours? Comment below...

Comments (Moderated)

My job is green because I am an internet advocate and website manager for greencollareconomy.com. W help the drive toward profitable sustainability by offering a huge b2b directory, forums, job board, and news. We would like to link to you site and continue supporting the business of green.

My job is green because I evaluate energy reducing approaches for our real estate properties throughout Europe.

Our job could be considered green, but we like to think of it terms of a real job that offers people who would normally be red to go green.
We build autos and HVAC units that are not powered by fossil fuels, nor electricity nor LP or NG gas. Strange claim, but we have it and soon... so will you!
John Lewis Mealer
www.betterconstructed.com

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