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Draft: Louisiana & Mississippi Green Jobs Consortium Louisiana & Mississippi Green Jobs Consortium

This document defines a green job as one that helps protect the environment or conserve natural resources, and categorizes green activities into renewable energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas reduction, pollution reduction and cleanup, recycling and waste reduction, sustainable agriculture and natural resource conservation, and education related to these areas. It further distinguishes between primary green jobs that have a primary focus on green activities, and support green jobs that are essential but do not have a primary focus.

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Draft: Louisiana & Mississippi Green Jobs Consortium Louisiana & Mississippi Green Jobs Consortium

This document defines a green job as one that helps protect the environment or conserve natural resources, and categorizes green activities into renewable energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas reduction, pollution reduction and cleanup, recycling and waste reduction, sustainable agriculture and natural resource conservation, and education related to these areas. It further distinguishes between primary green jobs that have a primary focus on green activities, and support green jobs that are essential but do not have a primary focus.

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Louisiana & Mississippi Working Definition

Green Jobs Consortium Green Jobs and Green Activities

A green job is defined by its involvement in a green activity – one that helps protect or
restore the environment or conserve natural resources. A green activity falls into one of
the following categories:

Green Activity Categories


1. Renewable energy
2. Energy efficiency
3. Greenhouse gas reduction
4. Pollution reduction and cleanup

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5. Recycling and waste reduction
6. Sustainable agriculture, natural resource conservation, and coastal restoration
7. Education, compliance, public awareness, and training supporting
categories 1 – 6
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Intensity of Green
A primary green job is one that has a primary focus on a green activity.
A support green job is one that is essential to a green activity, but does not have a
primary focus on that activity.
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Elements of a Green Activity Category


The following are examples of types of activities included within each green activity
category.
• Activities involved in the production of a green good or service (i.e. a good
or service that has a positive impact on the environment or natural resource
conservation when produced, consumed, or discarded)
• Activities involved in the production of a non-green good or service that is a unique
input to a green good or service (e.g. components, professional services, etc.)
• The distribution of green goods or their unique inputs
• Production processes and business practices that have a positive impact on the
environment regardless of the final good or service

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