There she believed that economic development and environmental protection did not have to be in conflict with each other (Green-collar workers).

Environmental green-collar workers (or green jobs) satisfy the demand for green development.

The very phrase "green-collar workers" was a blow to the solar plexus.

$500 million for training of green-collar workers (by the Department of Labor)

Last July, Clinton's fellow Democratic candidate for president announced his own plan to train 150,000 green-collar workers each year.

SunRun partners with over 25 leading local solar installers, who together employ more than 3,000 green-collar workers.

The expansion of sustainable business opportunities can contribute to job creation through the introduction of green-collar workers.

A green-collar worker is a worker who is employed in the environmental sectors of the economy.

“Right now we don’t have the infrastructure to train a sufficient number of green-collar workers,” Mr. Jones said.

Green-Collar Workers.

The inconvenient truth is that if you are hell-bent on becoming a green-collar worker, your best chance is to join the car or the nuclear industry.

Green-collar worker

If a miner extracts coke that makes steel used to assemble a wind turbine, says Foster, everyone in the production chain can be counted as a green-collar worker.

But many college officials believe there will be strong demand for green-collar workers once the economy rebounds and governments move to limit greenhouse gas emissions and require more alternative energy.

This called not just for tougher controls of the global financial system but for large-scale investment in renewable energy and wider environmental transformation that would create a new army of green-collar workers.

Eventually Inslee co-authored Apollo's Fire, in which he says that through improved Federal policies the United States can wean itself off of its dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel, create millions of Green-collar worker jobs, and stop global warming.