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1. Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.

   Example: 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green Collar Revolution”, in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134,

2. Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.