What is a Green Collar Job?

A main mission of E Green Group is to merge the green movement with the race equity movement through the building of "green collar jobs."

Van Jones is the author of an  inspiring book called "the Green Collar Economy" that explains why merging these issues is so important. So what is a "green collar job?" From a book review on treehugger.com:

"Jones defines a green-collar job as a 'family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality," but is also part of what he calls the "one solution [to] fix our two biggest problems" — namely, poverty and our environmental crisis. You may ask: what does environmentalism have to do with alleviating poverty? According to Jones, it has everything to do with it — and his simple premise has a populist but pragmatic ring to it. By directly engaging working-class, low-income and urban communities in the retrofitting, weatherizing and solarizing of America, not only will they benefit from hundreds of thousands of non-exportable jobs in the emerging green economy, but they will also represent the pivotal force sorely needed to turn America's environmental tide."

This book is great read if you are interested in environmental change and the social change we need to get there! For more info about Van Jones see his website here.

Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy"