Eco.org, a leading green jobs website, defines a green job as any job in any company where the primary focus is on reducing the impacts of our activities or products on the environment. Green jobs serve to maximize the efficient use of resources while minimizing the degradation of the planet from pollution and waste. Credit: eco.org

Eco.org, a leading green jobs website, defines a green job as any job in any company where the primary focus is on reducing the impacts of our activities or products on the environment. Green jobs serve to maximize the efficient use of resources while minimizing the degradation of the planet from pollution and waste. Credit: eco.org

Eco.org, a leading green jobs website, defines a green job as any job in any company where the primary focus is on reducing the impacts of our activities or products on the environment. Green jobs serve to maximize the efficient use of resources while minimizing the degradation of the planet from pollution and waste. Credit: eco.org
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  • Eco.org, a leading green jobs website, defines a green job as any job in any company where the primary focus is on reducing the impacts of our activities or products on the environment. Green jobs serve to maximize the efficient use of resources while minimizing the degradation of the planet from pollution and waste.

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E — The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: I'm looking for the best places to search for green jobs but am having trouble locating them on traditional job search sites. Where should I look? — H. Jenkins, Biloxi, MS

With the environment now high atop the public agenda, green jobs are more popular than ever. Defined by eco.org (a leading green jobs website) as any job in any company where the primary focus is on reducing the impacts of our activities or products on the environment, green jobs serve to maximize efficient use of resources while minimizing degradation of the planet from pollution and waste. “Eco-jobs can range from engineering a photovoltaic solar cell to designing a building for more energy efficiency to landscaping a yard to minimize erosion to finding more sustainable forestry techniques,” reports eco.org.

This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.