Green Collar Jobs

Thank goodness for green collar jobs. Green collar jobs offer people coming from a blue collar background, or those who can't go into highly technical and white collar positions, a stake in working for a cleaner and greener environment and community. There is no better spokesperson out there for green collar jobs for low-income communities than Van Jones, President and Founder of Green For All ^*.

Not only do green collar jobs allow people from impoverished neighborhoods a chance to do something for the environment, it is also giving them jobs and helping our defunct manufacturing and industry come back to life for the greener good.

It also means that workers who used to work in environmentally unsafe conditions can now breather easier when they go to work and live a happier, healthier life at home within a community that no longer lives alongside factories that emit toxic waste.

Out of work auto plant workers can go back to work in their old factories, only now they're working on cars that help this country move away from oil dependence, and help the planet in the process.

America can once again make its own products and offer green collar workers a fair and decent wage while returning to this country to the global marketplace where it once stood and where it belongs.

These are the hopes and visions of green collar work and industry. It's all good!

^*At the time of writing, Van Jones announced that he will be moving to Washington D.C. to work for the Obama Administration as the Green Jobs Advisor. Taking his place at the helm of Green For All is Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins.