What
Green-collar jobs are good jobs. They are generally connected to solar energy, clean water, wind, green buildings and alternative fuels. Many jobs are found in manufacturing, installation, and operations. Still other jobs exist in non-traditional industries such as green buildings, power plant operations and farming.
Green-collar jobs pay family wages and provide opportunities for advancement along a career track of increasing skills and wages. Green-collar jobs that combine opportunities for people to provide for their families with saving the planet.
Some green collar jobs are brand new. But even more are existing jobs that are being transformed as industries transition to a clean energy economy: computer control operators who can cut steel for wind towers as well as for submarines; or mechanics who can fix an electric engine as well as an internal combustion engine.
Whatever your skill set or interest, there’s a green job out there for you.
Some Green Terms
Alternative Fuels: Any materials or substances that can be used as a fuel, other than conventional fuels (i.e. oil, coal, propane, and natural gas), and nuclear materials. Alternative fuels include biodiesel, methanol, ethanol, butanol, hydrogen, non-fossil methane, non-fossil natural gas, and vegetable oil.
Clean Water: Water is a necessity of life. Every living thing relies on water to survive. Plants and organizations throughout America ensure safe and clean water for all people, animals and environments.
Green Buildings: Buildings that more efficiently use resources (i.e. energy, water, and construction materials) while reducing buildings’ impacts on health and the environment through better design, construction, maintenance, and removal.
Solar Energy: The radiant light and heat from the Sun that has been harnessed by humans since ancient times. Solar applications include space heating and cooling through solar architecture, hot water, and high temperature process heat.
Wind Energy: Air has mass, and when it is in motion, it contains the energy of that motion. We can convert a portion of that energy into other forms of mechanical force or electricity.
