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Green career employment is expected to be a 1.5 trillion dollar industry. Find your green niche and a green job.

Just in case you missed it, green careers are coming quick. Every time you turn around you get a new list of top green careers.

There has been of talk in the news about green collar jobs, green careers, and green in general.

Green collar jobs are truly in the beginning stages. Many times we read articles on how there is no real definition to a green career. In many ways, they are right but completely miss the point.

Fast Company says "Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade" and lists their pick of the new green jobs that will be created - Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade. "It's time to bail out the people and the planet," says Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. We agree, and this guide to to sustainability-focused career paths will help retrofit and solar-charge your work life. Farmer America has only two million farmers, and their average age is 55. Since sustainable agriculture requires small-scale, local, organic methods rather than petroleum-based machines and fertilizers, there is a huge need for more farmers -- up to tens of millions of them, according to food guru Michael Pollan. Modern farmers are small businesspeople who must be as skilled in heirloom genetics as marketing. ...

A green career can be an opportunity to take off in a business that should be around for the next career wave.

How you can start a career in green energy and alternative energy jobs.

Sustainable Careers and Industry Blog, the Technical Green Blog

Green careers are going to play a pivotal role in the recovery of the U.S. Going green will help revive the economy towards creating job growth and counter the effects of net job loss.  Three areas aiding the recovery will be: the broad

As the economy slumps, local site leads the way, helping local unemployed find green collar jobs.

Identifying the different areas of growth within this new green push will help the current unemployed gain leverage with the economy gets better.

As wind technology advances so does wind power jobs. Wind jobs are green careers because wind is a natural, renewable energy source.

In the coming years, career opportunities are opening its thresholds to green fashion designers to make a pivotal difference in the clothing realm as well as promoting eco-friendly merchandises.

Ezra Drissman of GreenCareersGuide gives suggestions on how to get a good green job by becoming an energy consultant.