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The term 'green collar worker' is increasingly being used to describe people working in green, sustainability or environmental jobs, but there is no standard definition of the term. The purpose of this report is to examine the different meanings that people have attached to the term, and to attempt to arrive at a workable definition. The report then develops a taxonomy, a classification, of green collar workers that is a necessary first step to a comprehensive analysis of their roles and positions. This report has been written by sustainability analyst group Connection Research, with support from the Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW (DECC) and the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ). It is intended as the first step in a larger research project that will determine how many green collar workers there are in Australia and New Zealand, to identify them, and reach as many of them as possible through a market research survey that will ask them about such matters as skills availability and skills shortages, technologies being employed, and the demands of their jobs.

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