on collars

from labor -- a blue-collar economy
to professional services -- a white-collar economy
to the creative industries -- a 'no-collar economy' [richard florida]
to... a green-collar economy?



'Provocative, personal, and inspirational, New York TimesThe Green Collar Economy by Van Jones is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country--the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.'
The Green Collar Economy, Van Jones 2008

ps. he is also the founder of Green For All and the Green Jobs guru + will be speaking at Sloan on Wednesday, November 19 from 6-7.

[i wonder where this book stands on the greenwashing continuum?]

also! according to Wikipedia -- [which, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica's former editor Robert McHenry, is 'fundamentally incapable of rising to a high standard of excellence,' and, according to WP's first editor in chief Larry Sanger 'that the anti-expertise bias among Wikipedians foreshadows the death of accuracy in scholarship'...]

-- the spectrum of collar colors seems to be much more vibrant than i had originally imagined:

the pink-collar worker [white-collar but traditionally 'female']
the gold-collar worker ['low-wage, luxury-seeking]
the grey-collar worker [neither white nor blue, somewhere in between]


polka dots, anyone?