Green-Collar Jobs: Saving the Environment, One Job at a Time

What is a Green-collar job? It is a Blue-collar job that is environment friendly? Any job that helps the environment or promotes it is considered a Green-collar job. Many Blue-collar jobs are disappearing due to loss of jobs to other countries. Green-collar jobs are replacing them, and they're local, which means the money stays in the community, here in the United States. They give workers the chance to learn new skills that will help them in the "green" workforce. Green-collar jobs also give the unemployed, a chance to go to work and help the environment at the same time. Job satisfaction is extremely high in these type of jobs.

Building "green" houses is a great Green-collar job to have. Anything from building a house and adding solar panels to eco-friendly insulation and weatherization would be in this category. These houses are getting more and more popular. Ed Bagley Jr. and other actors, live in a "green" house. Everybody wants to keep up with the Joneses. With all the emphasis on the environment now, a worker can find plenty of steady work in this category for many years to come.

A manufacturing job related to anything eco-friendly is another great Green-collar job to have. Someone has to build all the solar panels and other materials that go in the "green" houses. Also included in manufacturing would be bike cargo systems and building green recycling bins. Everybody needs something to put their recyclables in. More and more people are recycling, so there will always be a steady need for the green recycling bins.

If you like to work outside, maybe you would like to be a landscaper or a Park Ranger. They are both great Green-collar jobs. If you don't like to plant trees or bushes, maybe you would like to cut or prune them instead. You can be a tree-trimmer. And you could always turn the trimmings into Green waste composting; which is another Green-collar job. If you like to turn recycled products into another products, that's another good one to have. You could always start your own business too.