Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise

Posted by on December 7, 2009

Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise offers guidance to policymakers and advocates who are ready to seize green jobs opportunities.

Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise
Sightline’s guide to building a green-collar workforce

Green-collar jobs—jobs dedicated to saving energy, producing renewable energy, or reducing pollution—can speed progress on two deeply rooted problems at once: easing our dependence on climate-warming fossil fuels and fostering lasting, broadly shared economic prosperity.

There is lots of buzz lately about green-collar jobs. But what are they? Sightline’s primer, Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise, explains what makes a green job, how investment in clean energy creates jobs, and how Northwest leaders can foster a green-collar workforce in our region.

Green-collar jobs–workers who devote their hours to boosting energy efficiency, increasing renewable energy, or reducing pollution–represent a 3-for-1 solution: economic stability and local jobs, reduction of global warming pollution, and an escape from dependence on dirty fossil fuels.

Fully realizing the potential for green jobs will demand a comprehensive set of programs and policies to guide us into a clean-energy economy that ensures prosperity for all. Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise offers guidance to policymakers and advocates tasked with seizing green jobs opportunities.

http://www.sightline.org/research/green-collar-jobs/green-jobs-primer/green-jobs-primer-pdf