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green-collar
a) Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.

The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new green collar jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs.

b) Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.

Studies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing green collar workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the social economy of community enterprises.

See Also: green-collar crime, green collar crime

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