WHERE ARE GREEN JOBS?
The phrase “green jobs” brings to mind wind power installers and maintenance workers, solar engineers and designers, architects, ethanol plant technicians, biodiesel lab technicians, and air-quality auditors. But green workers could also include those who propose or implement conservation ideas to save energy or water, reduce pollution or restore biodiversity and ecosystems. As part of the global transition to a more sustainable economy, some jobs will be created and some lost, but many will simply be transformed. “Green is going to be incorporated in every industry,” Feldbaum said. She agrees with those who say it is difficult to define what a green industry is. For example, making wind turbines is a job not much different from other kinds of manufacturing. “But I do think green skills will be integrated into everything we do, and sustainability principles will eventually be in every occupation,” she said. Feldbaum said community colleges like Lane that have been involved in sustainab
