Know How to Find a Green Job?

Phil Angelides, one-time candidate for governor of California, may have defined "green job" best when he said, "a green job has to pay decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part of a real career path, with upward mobility. And it needs to reduce waste and pollution and benefit the environment."

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Unless your only skill set is dumping toxic waste on fish, you can find a job in the green sector with almost any set of preexisting work skills. A teacher can train people to work a green job. A welder can join metal braces that will support a solar panel. Bus drivers, for example, can already be considered a green-collar worker. Every skill set can fit into the green sector, however, it doesn?t hurt to explore your options or learn a new set of skills, depending on what you?d like to do.

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75% of all jobs are never advertised. That means knowing someone may be the key to the untapped majority of untaken jobs. Get out there and network. New to town? Don't know anyone? Don't fret. There are still plenty of jobs to be found on the internet and in the want ads.

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Life cycle assessment is the way in which computer programs are employed to track different variables that arise in a product's life cycle. Knowing these things can be very helpful when trying to eliminate waste and conserve resources. A life cycle assessor is just one of the jobs that is on the verge of becoming sought after in a world full of green washing.

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That's a lot of jobs. Renewable energy is a growth industry. Non-renewable energy will eventually peter out, being non-renewable and all. As governments and corporations take the threat of global warming more and more seriously, a plethora of green jobs are bound to be created.

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As countries like the United States work to reduce their dependence on foreign oil, the number of renewable energy workers will most likely grow. The American Solar Energy Society's Green Collar Jobs Report estimates 37 million new jobs from renewable energy and energy efficiency sources by 2030 in the US alone.

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Studies have shown that commuting makes up about 98% of a worker's carbon footprint. The benefits of working at home are amazing. Employees can save nearly two-thousand dollars on gasoline and automobile maintenance and over five thousand Kilowatt hours a year. Employees also tend to be 10-15% more productive.

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The average American spends 233 hours a year commuting. That's 9.7 days. A southern Californian spends more than 10 days commuting and a Canadian spends 12 days getting to and from work. Telecommuting one or two days a week can do more than give you some extra free time, it can reduce your carbon footprint as well.

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President Obama has pledged to create over 5 million green-collar jobs over the next ten years. Unions are happy because these proposed jobs cannot be outsourced, and environmentalists are excited because these jobs might bring about a reduction in climate change.

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The goals of this organization are to reduce global warming, curb the use of toxic chemicals and achieve enforceable human rights standards and trade policies. The BGA also works to restore the rights of workers to form unions and bargain collectively.

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