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Have you heard the phrase “green collar jobs”?

I hadn’t, until today. But if the governor of Pennsylvania is thinking about trying to orient his state’s economy to take advantage of the coming opportunities in green collar jobs (I heard it on NPR’s On the Media), I’m thinking I’d better start learning!

Here are some of what I’ll be reading as I try to get up to speed:

• Green Collar Jobs, by By Raquel Pinderhughes at Urban Habitat

• Douglas MacMillan’s article in the January 10th issue of Business Week on “Switching to Green Collar Jobs“

• Kevin Doyle’s guest column over at the GristMill

Got any suggestions for further reading? My sense is that these are all pretty positive views… any interesting counterpoints out there?

Some colleges that might be worth checking out if folks are thinking along these lines are over here.