Green Living
How do you determine if a job is a green-collar job?
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Science Channel
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Science Channel
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It can be difficult to determine if a job is "green" or not. Is a person who helps make steel for both wind turbines and gas-guzzling SUVs a green-collar worker? Does a lawyer representing an alternative-energy company have a green-collar job or a white-collar job? Green-collar jobs often straddle the line between white-collar and blue-collar jobs. Some examples of green-collar jobs include:
- Designing environmentally friendly buildings
- Retrofitting existing buildings to increase their energy efficiency
- Producing biofuels
- Recycling and composting
- Installing solar panels
- Designing and maintaining parks
- Manufacturing products like hybrid cars that are environmentally friendly
- Working on water conservation projects
- Working on a sustainable farm
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