Green Careers

According to the United Nations 2008 Green Jobs report,
​green jobs are "those that contribute appreciatively to maintaining or restoring environmental qualify and avoiding future damage to the Earth's ecosystems."

According to Green for All creator, Van Jones, green jobs:

• Rebuild a strong middle class
• Provide pathways out of poverty
• Require some new skills (and new thinking about old skills)
• Tend to be local jobs
• Strengthen urban and rural communities
• Save the planet Earth

Education
New Mexico Campus Explorer
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SFCC Sustainable Technologies Center
Multiple programs are now available including:

• Adobe Construction
• Architectural Design
• Biofuels
• Building Science and Construction Technologies
• Drafting and Engineering
• Facility Technologies
• Green Building Construction Systems
• Greenhouse Management
• Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
• NM Energy Smart Academy
• Residential Energy Auditor and Inspector
• Solar Energy
• Sustainable Technologies
• Water Treatment Operation
• YouthBuild

University of New Mexico Sustainability Studies Program

New Mexico State University Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde

MORE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION:

Prescott College Environmental Studies, Prescott, AZ

University of Phoenix, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science

WEBSITES:BOOKS/MEDIA:
Algae Industry Magazine (by SFCC Biofuels graduate)
Ecological Literacy
Ecological Medicine 
Green Careers Resource Guide, by Jim Cassio
Green Careers for Dummies, by Carol McClelland
Green Fire Times free, local, monthly newspaper available in stores and online
Last Child in the Woods
Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart
The Nature Principal
Original Instructions: Indigneous Teachings for a Sustainable Future  
Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawkin, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Sustainable Tribal Economies  downloadable guide from Honor the Earth (website above)
Visionary Plant Consciousness 
Island Press is a publishing company promoting solutions that inspire change.
PixyJackPress is a solar & wind powered independent publisher with Green Books

Organizations
Green Chamber of Commerce
New Mexico Solar Energy Association
Solar Energy Industries Association NM
New Mexico Solar Energy Directory
NM Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy
Dreaming New Mexico
1Sky New Mexico
Architecture 2030
Bioneers
Bureau of Land Management
Center for Advancing Sustainable Architecture
Center for Civic Policy
Community Action of New Mexico
Conservation Voters New Mexico
Dooda Desert Rock Coalition
Earth Alert
Earthcare
Economic Development Department
Environment New Mexico
Environmental Improvement Board
Farm-to-Table
Green Chamber of Commerce
Intellus environmental monitoring data from in and around LANL
Natural Resource Defense Council
United Native America
New Energy Economy
New Mexico Coalition for Clean and Affordable Energy
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light
New Mexico Partnership
New Mexico Rural Alliance
New Mexico State University, Geothermal,
New Mexico Youth Organized
New Voices of Business
Regional Development Corporation
Renewable Energy Partners
Renewable Energy Transmission Authority
Santa Fe Alliance
Sierra Club
Sierra Club-Rio Grande Chapter
US Forest Service, Southwestern Region

How Successful Are Green Careers? 
Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com annually create
​a State of Green Business report

Resources
United Nation's Environment Program annual report.

www.greencareeercentral.org

MORE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION:
 American Botanical Council
American Holistic Nurses Association
Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Portal
Barefoot Artists 
Biomimicry Guild
BlueGreen Alliance
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) 
Children and Nature Network
Coyote Clan (Terry Tempest Williams)
Cultural Conservancy 
Ecologist
Environmental Research Foundation 
The Gift Economy 
Global Fund for Women
Google Earth Outreach
Green Belt Movement 
Green Job Engine 
Health Care Without Harm 
Honor The Earth 
Human Capital Institute
Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network (IPRN)
Net Impact, using the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world
Ocean Revolution
Organic Consumers Association
Pesticide Action Network North America
Physicians for Social Responsibility 
Positive Energy Solar, Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Project Learning Tree
Project Wild
Quivera Coalition (New Mexico)
Raising Change
Santa Fe Botancial Garden (Santa Fe)
Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity uses green building techniques (Santa Fe)
Science and Environmental Health Network
Small Planet Institute 
Sustainable Santa Fe Commission (Santa Fe)
Sustainable Business.com
Sustainabile Obtainable Solutions
United Plant Savers 
Wild Earth Guardians (Santa Fe)
Women of the Green 
Women's Earth Alliance 
Women's Voices for the Earth 
Youthworks - numerous green youth programs (Santa Fe)