Green careers in building and landscaping

Note from the Peterson's editors

What is the new green economy?

Essays On The Importance Of Sustainability

Teaching the concepts of green building to all students: a call to action / Julia Feder, Amy Seif Hattan, and Ashka Naik

Form, function, and those within / Jennnifer Berry, and Deborah J Hanson

Sustainability: a paradigm, not a practice / Robert Fleming

Triple bottom line of sustainability / Alyce Engle

How To Use This Green Career Guide

Part 1: Professional And Skilled Jobs

Part 2: Colleges And Union Organizations With Great Green Programs

Part 3: Workforce Training

Part 4: Appendixes

Special Features Throughout This Guide

Part 1: Professional And Skilled Jobs

1: Building design and construction jobs

Jobs profiled here

Key to understanding the job profiles

Architect

Architectural drafter

Carpenter helper

Cement mansion/ concrete finisher

Civil engineer

Civil engineering technician

Civil drafter

Construction carpenter

Constructor manager

Construction worker

Cost estimator

Electrical engineer

Engineering manager

Operating engineer/construction equipment operator

Pipe fitter and steamfitter

Plumber

Property, real estate, or community association manger

Real estate agent

Roofer

Rough carpenter

Sheet metal worker

Structural iron and steel worker

Surveyor

Surveying technician

Welder, cutter, and welder fitter

How being green works for Jake Pederson, project manger

How being green works for Jim Adrian, architectural designer

2: In stallion, operations, and energy-efficiency jobs

Jobs profiled here

Key to understanding the job profiles

Boilermaker

Electrician

Energy auditor

Energy broker

Energy engineer

Facilities manager

Geothermal technician

Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanic and installer

Insulation worker: Floor, ceiling, and wall

Insulation worker, mechanical

Maintenance and repair worker, general

Mechanical engineer

Refrigeration mechanic and installer

Solar energy installation manager

Solar photovoltaic installer

Solar sales representative and assessor

Solar thermal installer and technician

Stationary engineer and boiler operator

Weatherization installer and technician

How being green works for Russ Hellem, Energy efficiency expert

How being green works for Al Maloney, Weatherization specialist

How being green works for Matt Dunham, HVAC technician

How being green works for James Baker, Facilities manager

3: Commercial, industrial, and residential design jobs

Jobs profiled here

Key to understanding the job profiles

Bath designer

Flooring installer

Furniture designer

Interior decorator

Interior designer

Painter

Kitchen designer

Product designer

How being green works for Sandra Gaylord, Kitchen/bath designer

How being green works for Michael D Byun, Interior designer

4: Landscaping, ground keeping, and turf care jobs

Jobs profiled here

Key to understanding the job profiles

Arborists

First-line supervisor/manager of agricultural crop and horticultural workers

First-line supervisor/manager of landscaping, lawn service, and grounds keeping workers

Landscape architect

Landscape designer

Landscaping and ground keeping worker

Lawn care specialist

Nursery and greenhouse manager

Pesticide handler, sprayer, and applicator

Turfgrass manager

How being green works for Margaret (Meg) Gaffney Landscape architect

How being green works for James Michael (Mike) Goatley, Jr, Turfgrass specialist

5: Jobs in policy, analysis, advocacy, and regulatory affairs

Overview

Jobs profiled here

Key to understanding the job profiles

Chief sustainability officer

City and regional planning aide

Compliance manager

Construction and building inspector

Environmental compliance inspector

Regulatory affairs specialist

Training and development specialist

Urban and regional planner

Water resource specialist

Water/wastewater engineer

How being green works for Kimberly A Cameron, Weatherization program manager

How being green works for Tom Chiu, Plan check engineer

Part 2: Colleges And Union Organizations With Great Green Programs

6: 25 four-year schools with great green programs

About the listings

Arizona state university (ASU)

Auburn university

Ball State university

Boston architectural college (BAC)

California polytechnic state university (CAL POLY), Sand Luis Obiso

Colorado state university (CSU)

Cornell university

Drexel university

Kansas state university (K-State)

Louisiana state university agricultural and mechanical college (LSU)

Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT)

New York school of interior design (NYSID)

Parsons the new school for design

Pennsylvania state university (Penn State)

Pratt institute

Purdue university

Rhode Island school of design (RISD)

Syracuse university (SU)

Texas A&M university

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

University of Cincinnati (UC)

University of Georgia (UGA)

University of Oregon, Eugene

University of Virginia (UVA)

Virginia polytechnic institute and state university (Virginia tech)

7: 25 two-year colleges with great green programs

About the listings

Albany technical college (ATC)

Anne Arundel community college (AACC)

Cape Cod community college (CCCC)

Century community and technical college

Cleveland state community college (CSCC)

Crowder college

Cuyahoga community college (Tri-C)

Edmond's community college

Fox valley technical college (FVTC)

Hudson valley community college (HVCC)

Iowa lakes community college (ILCC)

Kankakee community college (KCC)

Lane community college

Lansing community college (LCC)

Los Angeles trade-technical college (LATTC)

Macomb community college

Mercer county community college (MCCC)

Midlands technical college (MTC)

Mount Wachusett community college (MWCC)

Red Rocks community college (RRCC)

Santa Fe community college (SFCC)

St Petersburg college (SPC)

Tidewater community college (TCC)

Tulsa community college

Wake technical community college (Wake tech)

8: Union Training Programs for green jobs

Apprenticeships

About the union program listings

National labor college (NLC)

International association of bridge, structural, ornamental and reinforcing iron workers (iron workers)

International association of heat and frost insulators and allied workers (AWIU)

International brotherhood of electrical workers (IBEW)

International union of bricklayers an allied craft workers (BAC)

International union of operating engineers (IUOE)

International union of painters and allied trades, AFL-CIO (IUPAT)

Laborers' international union of North America (LIUNA)

Operative plasterers' and cement masons' international association (OPCMIA)

Servcie employees international union (SEIU)

Sheet metal workers international association (SMWIA)

United association of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipefitting industry of the United States and Canada (UA)

United brotherhood of carpenters and joiners (UBC)

United steel, paper and forestry, rubber, manufacturing, energy, allied industrial & service workers international union (USW) (steelworkers)

Part 3: Workforce Training

9: State and federal workforce training

Using the internet

Finding a one-stop career center

Veterans' services

Registered apprenticeship programs

ARRA green job training grants

States' one-stop careers centers

Part 4: Appendixes

Appendix A: Building and landscaping jobs by industry

Building design and construction

Installation operations, and energy efficiency jobs

Commercial, industrial, and residential design jobs

Landscaping, groundkeeping, and turf care jobs

Policy, analysis, advocacy, and regulatory affairs

Appendix B: Green job boards

About green job boards

Appendix C: Green your vocabulary for a sustainable future

Appendix D: Green features in this guide.