Your Nation's Voice - Green

Hot 'Green' Jobs Keep Evolving (U.S. News and World Report)

It wasn't long ago when people thought "green jobs" and came up with a bunch of clichés. Think park ranger, ecologist, or activist for an environmental group like Greenpeace. Now there's a new green economy that's stretching its fingertips in all sorts of directions and touching just about any industry you can think of....read entire article.

The Growth in 'Green-Collar' Jobs (Newsweek)

Paul McAnally never planned on becoming a "green-collar" worker. A former Navy shipbuilder, McAnally, 47, lost his job with a plumbing contractor when the housing market slumped. The Pennsylvania father of six was on unemployment benefits when he heard about Gamesa, a Spanish-owned wind energy company that two years ago started making turbines at a former U.S. Steel plant near Philadelphia. He was hired to build nacelles, the giant structures that house turbines' electricity-generating equipment. When he took his children for a factory tour recently, says McAnally, "they were expecting to see a windmill from Holland" and were amazed instead to see colossal steel towers 300 feet tall and sleek fiberglass blades. "I was able to tell them, 'We're making these turbines for your future'," says McAnally. "'So you can have clean energy'."...read entire article.

Switching To Green Collar Jobs (BusinessWeek)

January 10, 2008

A growing number of professionals are taking their talents and moving them to jobs that can help improve the environment.

On Dec. 6, Berkeley (Calif.) nonprofit Avoided Deforestation Partners hosted a panel at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali on the topic of REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation). The group's 55-year-old founder, Jeff Horowitz, took the stage and addressed a crowded room of environmental movers and shakers on his vision for the protection of rainforests....read entire article.