Green collar jobs are all the rage today. If the term green is a bit mystifying, it’s a step up from blue, but just not white yet. Green indicates jobs that have to do with environmentally friendly technology – a technician with the training to help install a wind generator, someone who retrofits the house for more energy efficiency and so on. While these pay well, the white collars wonder if they couldn’t get in on the action. All these green businesses these days need a whole new crew of green and environmentally savvy managers; and the community college continuing education system is rushing forward with new courses, degree programs and what have you, to fill demand.

Energy efficiency is such an important area to the economy now that the federal government is really throwing its might behind it in training the country for it – there is a half billion being invested in the sector. They might as well – it’s going to employ an additional million people over the next 10 years. The potential isn’t lost on people who are unhappy in their present jobs; and at any community college, continuing education programs in the form of two-year degrees are being put into place as quickly as possible. These will train people to be the managers who will supervise the manufacture of the new materials that will go into green energy products, the ones who will supervise how they are deployed, and the ones who will help protect our environment from energy production pollution.