| One of the newest buzz words to come out of the | | | | "green-collar? Our dependence on fossil fuels, |
| environmental crisis is the term "green-collar job". What | | | | especially in the U.S. is seriously damaging our |
| exactly is a green-collar job and will there be a need | | | | environment and is having a negative impact on our |
| for green-collar workers in the future? Apparently so, | | | | economy. The need for new products and services |
| as a study by the RAND Corporation and the | | | | that will help us develop a more energy efficient |
| Universtiy of Tennessee "found that if 25% of all | | | | society is creating a host of new jobs and the |
| American energy were produced from renewable | | | | redesigning of jobs that are already in existence. In |
| sources by 2025 we would generate at least 5 million | | | | order to bolster our economy, good jobs that are in |
| new green-collar jobs". | | | | green industries need to be created. |
| Those numbers sound great, but what is a | | | | |