The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines a green job as
Green jobs are either:
- Jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources.
- Jobs in which workers’ duties involve making their establishment’s production processes more environmentally friendly or use fewer natural resources.
We’re one step closer to understanding that a green job is. Here are some examples of sectors, or parts of the economy, that can be classified as a green job:
- Communications
- Ecology
- biology
- botany
- wildlife biology and management
- fisheries biology and management
- Education
- Engineering
- Food systems
- Forestry and Silviculture
- Government
- Land management
- policy
- Law and policy
- Natural resource management
- Environmental Restoration
- Organic agriculture
- Renewable energy
- solar energy jobs
- bioenergy
- hydroelectric jobs
- alternative energy
- wave power
- Research
- Others
Here are some specific jobs that fall into the green jobs category:
- agricultural inspector
- air quality engineer
- business manager
- camp counselor
- conservation biologist
- drinking water treatment operator
- ecologist
- environmental attorney
- environmental chemist
- environmental engineer
- environmental/natural resoure/agricultural economist
- forester
- fundraising director
- hydrologist
- landscape architect
- pest control technician
- pollution control technician
- science teacher
- solar panel installer/ technician
- toxicologist
- urban and regional planner
- wastewater treatment operator
- wildlife biologist
Now that you have a better idea about green jobs, take a look at the job board or read about how green collar professionals got to where they are today in the Pathway Profiles page.