April 6th, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

With unemployment at a 25-year peak, it’s sometimes difficult to find the good news. The silver lining.

You have to look for it. Sometimes you have to pull up a curtain, or crawl behind the scenes, but we believe it’s there: a green jobs revolution.

OK. Maybe the revolution is more of a restless assemblage, a loose gathering on the horizon than a storming of the palace. But we’ll take it. When we started looking into it, we discovered that green jobs are bubbling up in so many sectors. They’re rewarding, forward-looking and surprisingly well-paying.

The people we’ve been talking to about their planet-preserving employment are beyond enthused. Whether they’re in recycling, home building, organic baking, new energy or water conservation, so many green-collar workers in these new (and some old) jobs see a bright future. Just read their stories, which begin today on GreenRightNow in our Business section. Look for the “My Green Job” headlines.

We start with Susan Casias, a woman whose chosen career involves destruction and renewal — she’s head of a document shredding department. Casias’ verve for the work is infectious. She loves her job and tells her employees that they’re “superheroes” because they’re fighting crime and saving the planet!

Later this week and every week throughout April, we’ll bring you more stories about other people in green endeavors.

And if you know someone who’s gone green who wants to tell how they’re doing, we would love to hear about them! Please drop us an email. (Or a tweet on Twitter.)

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