Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.
- adj. Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.
Etymologies
- By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The shift to a low-carbon, clean, green economy can create large numbers of quality green-collar jobs for American workers, and lower energy bills for American households.”
Wonk Room » Climate Equity Alliance Establishes Principles For Green Economic Reform
“In fact, a new administration could enforce new global warming regulations with common sense, focusing on large emitters of greenhouse gases to achieve reasonable reductions while spurring trillions of dollars worth of economic growth and green-collar jobs.”
Wonk Room » EPA Sends Greenhouse Endangerment Finding To White House
“He is focusing on "green-collar jobs" and how cities are implementing job-creating climate solutions.”
The Huffington Post: Van Jones: Right-Wing Voter Guide Revolution: What Can Progressives Learn?
“Now more than ever before, people around the world have come to see green-collar jobs as an absolute necessity for survival in our rapidly changing economies and environments.”
The Huffington Post: Cambria Matlow: WATCH: Young Man's Quest To Electrify Rural West Africa
“The new facility, along the Figueroa Corridor, will bring an estimated 150 green-collar engineering and management jobs to Los Angeles and hundreds of indirect jobs.”
The Huffington Post: Antonio Villaraigosa: L.A.'s Work in Creating Jobs Pays Dividends
“For environmental supporters and proponents of green-collar jobs, some of the expected budget cuts from the recently passed debt limit bill are alarming.”
The Huffington Post: Green Jobs And Where To Find Them (PHOTOS)
“The Democrats should push the rest of their now-stalled pro-growth tax cuts: reducing taxes on investments businesses make in research & experimentation, tax cuts for creating green-collar jobs and generating clean energy.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Begala: A Centrist Democratic Agenda: More Jobs, Less Corruption
“How did these faithful employees of ministries, joint-venture firms, and foreign companies become "green-collar" criminals?”
“We shared the stories of women like BPI Certified Energy Auditor Dawn Moody, a longtime Philadelphia resident and green-collar worker, and Evelin Palacios of the Women's Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES), who co-founded her own eco-housecleaning co-op after being exposed to toxic cleaning products her whole life.”
“We can rebuild America, and we can ensure that we train workers for the next generation of green-collar jobs, if we get to work now," said Paul Hughes, a founder of the Re/Build Warehouse.”
The Washington Post: "The Job's Not Done Tour" Comes to Virginia
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