Deep Green Jobs for Philadelphia: More than a Paycheck

Posted by on October 31, 2011

Deep Green Jobs for Philadelphia: More than a Paycheck
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Deep Dive on Green Jobs Shows Many Shades of Opportunity

Philadelphia’s green jobs movement parades as many green hues as Fairmount Park, ranging from deep green work to pale green employment.

All green work expands Philadelphia’s economy by reducing waste of resources, workers and wealth. Green jobs make life easier for everyone by reducing the costs of fuel, food, and housing. Green work repairs soil, water and air, making these cleaner and healthier.

Looking deeper, green jobs can also build profound solutions to resource depletion, by expanding use of many existing and new technologies: passive solar HVAC, trains, bicycles, superwindows, deconstruction and depaving, rainwater catchment and solar distillation, earth shelters, cellulose insulation, tree-free paper, compost toilets and greywater systems, urban farms and orchards, edible landscaping, greenhousing, solar windowboxes and solar water heaters, green roofs and white roofs. These humble tools prove that billions of humans can enjoy this planet while repairing it.