| The market for Green Collar Jobs is growing despite | | | | the need for sound legal counsel will be critical to help |
| the credit crunch and financial turmoil that is hitting | | | | businesses and individuals ensure that they are within |
| markets around the globe. Green Collar jobs are | | | | the bounds of the law when it comes to |
| usually found in areas of sustainable engineering, | | | | conservation, pollution, exploration and utilization of |
| renewable energy and social responsibility. The | | | | resources. |
| skyrocketing prices of oil, concerns about global | | | | - Green Education - As the demand for more "green |
| warming and just general uncertainty about our | | | | collar jobs" increases, so does the need for people |
| resources all have contributed to a boom in green | | | | skilled in the areas of sustainability, renewable energy |
| collar jobs. Below are some of the hottest areas for | | | | and energy-efficiency to educate the new wave of |
| green jobs in today's marketplace. | | | | job seekers looking to break into the green |
| - Travel and Tourism - While tourism is the world's | | | | workforce. |
| largest sector, ecotourism is growing at a rate of | | | | - Green Construction and Building - More and more |
| three times the regular tourism industry and there is | | | | construction and building designs are centered on |
| an increasing need for workers knowledgeable in this | | | | having very ergonomic spaces while having minimal |
| area | | | | impact on the environment so energy-efficient |
| - Urban Planning - With society becoming increasingly | | | | building is posed to be a very lucrative field in the |
| more and more urbanized, the need is great for | | | | near future. A great resource for green building |
| planners to assist local governments with ecofriendly | | | | standards and practices can be found at U.S. Green |
| planning and design solutions. | | | | Building Council (USGBC). |
| - Medicine and Health - The number of people turning | | | | - Corporate Citizenship - Corporations as part of their |
| to alternative methods of health care has been | | | | effort to be a responsible and effective corporate |
| steadily increasing since 2002 according to the | | | | citizen will look to people or firms to help them |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative | | | | ensure that they are adding value to the |
| Medicine (NCCAM). Professionals will be needed to | | | | environment, neighborhoods and cultures that they |
| prescribe and administer these alternative forms of | | | | impact. In a global economy, it is critical to understand |
| health care which many times produce better results | | | | how their strategy will affect customers, suppliers |
| with much less side effects than traditional medicine. | | | | and employees. |
| - Renewable Energy - As we all know, fossil fuel | | | | - Farming and Agriculture - This is one of the best |
| costs have been soaring with supplies decreasing, so | | | | sectors because it involves creating not just more |
| the demand for wind, solar and biofuels have | | | | organically grown products but identifying better |
| increased substantially so this industry is primed for | | | | ways to bring products to market and finding |
| tremendous growth and expansion. | | | | additional uses for crops as well. |
| - Legal - As interest in things environmental increases, | | | | |