By:
Gary Crossley
closeAuthor: Gary Crossley
Name: Gary Crossley
Email: lovetoworkorg@yahoo.com
Site: http://lovetowork.org/
About: Gary Crossley is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the University of South Carolina (USC). Mr. Crossley worked for the South Carolina Employment Security Commission in four different roles in Columbia and Charleston for over twenty years until his retirement in July 2006. He had a ten-year period in between Columbia and Charleston where he worked in Washington, DC as the Research and Finance Associate for the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, Inc. (ICESA, a nonprofit association in Washington, DC representing state departments of labor).
His present business, LovetoWork.org, LLC specializes in helping individuals and companies find work they are passionate about and motivated to accomplish at the highest level of performance. The goal is to discover careers and tasks which you enjoy doing in order to improve product and service quality. His web site, www.lovetowork.org, provides a variety of services to companies, workforce organizations, government entities, and individuals. Services include career counseling, worker productivity, employee surveys, company newsletters, and workforce analyses.See Authors Posts (1)It is important to examine some of the recent work being done in the quantification of Green Jobs. A group called the Workforce Information Council, comprised of leading statisticians/economists from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and state labor market information directors, have produced a key report titled “Measurement and Analysis of Employment in the Green Economy (October 2009).” (pdf)
The Study Group defined a green job is one in which the work is essential to products or services that improve energy efficiency, expand the use of renewable energy, or support environmental sustainability. The job involves work in any of these green economic activity categories: Renewable Energy and Alternative Fuels; Energy Efficiency and Conservation; Pollution, Waste, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Management, Prevention, and Reduction; Environmental Cleanup and Remediation and Waste Clean-up and Mitigation; Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation; and/or, Education, Regulation, Compliance, Public Awareness, and Training and Energy Trading.
