Green Jobs

What is a Green Collar Job?

Green Collar Jobs are employment opportunities that help secure a more sustainable future for local and regional communities around the country and the world. Whether they lie in the energy, horticulture, transportation or manufacturing sectors among others, Green Collar Jobs are training a new workforce to address emergent environmental problems through new technologies, community-oriented initiatives and retrofits of residential and commercial buildings.

Example Green Collar Job focus areas can include:

• Energy efficiency and energy management for existing buildings;
• Automotive retrofits;
• Landscaping, urban forestry, waterfront restoration, and green roofs;
• Clean energy: renewable energy systems (solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, small wind, landfill gas, anaerobic digesters, and tidal power), biofuel production, and cogeneration;
• Recycling;
• Deconstruction, recycling of building construction waste, and reuse of building materials; and
• Brownfield remediation.
(From Urban Agenda)

Solar One Green Collar Workforce Program

Solar One in collaboration with Brooklyn Workforce Innovations and Comprehensive Development, Inc. has launched pilot programs at Manhattan Comprehensive Night/Day School.

• Solar Panel Installation and I Heart PV Advocacy Program
• Building Performance Training - Energy Audit and Weatherization

Publications

Growing Green Collar Jobs: Energy Efficiency (pdf)
Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities (pdf)

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What is a Green Collar Job?

Solar One Green Collar Workforce Program

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