Finding a Green Job
Where to start:
- E: The Environmental Magazine‘s list of booming eco-friendly job sectors is good place to start for inspiration.
- Grist, TreeHugger, EnvironmentalCareer.com, HotJobs, and Sustainable Business Green Dream Jobs‘ listings are drawn from throughout the country.
- Idealist.org Job Search specializes in nonprofits; search on “environmental & ecology” or “energy conservation & green living.”
- Green Jobs is all about the burgeoning area of renewable energy.
- The National Park Service has 16,000 permanent employees and another 10,000 seasonal jobs to fill each year, from Hawaii to Yellowstone.
- Business for Social Responsibility Jobs Board lists openings at such big names such as the Walt Disney Company.
- World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms connects volunteers with organic farms around the planet — not paid work per se, but a great way to see the world.
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The clean energy boom is expected to produce 4.2 million new green jobs over the next three decades, according to a study completed by the nation’s mayors in October 2008. With that kind of rapid growth, employee supply and employer demand is likely to be unbalanced for a while — in the workforce’s favor.
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- Carbon regulation is producing jobs, alreadyThe nation’s first carbon cap-and-trade program is already helping to create new jobs. Workers are being hired for an expansion of energy efficiency programs, financed by money raised from power companies paying for their carbon emissions under the progra
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