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This is a development project, which I am building incrementally* -- a jumping-off point, if you will.


Recently, inspired by the work of Van Jones (see below)



....And by my own involvement with the Cobbs Creek Center for Environmental Education, I became intrigued with the question: what, exactly, constitutes a green collar job?

As it turns out, there is an abundance of high-quality, freely available information that can help us answer this question, and in turn to:
  • Determine how best to match people with jobs, based on interests, aptitudes, and work values;
  • Develop program and curriculum guides that can result in measurably better outcomes; and
  • Simultaneously advance the causes of bringing our planet back from the brink, bringing good, well-paying jobs to those now living at the economic brink, and building a sustainable source of clean, green, non-exportable economic growth to all.

In the next installment, I'll describe more about what I've learned and what we can do with it.
* Following the mantra suggested to me by my friend Picard Losier: "Progress, not perfection!"