While people are debating the rise (or even the existence) of the new Green Collar demographic in America, Consumer Reports came down on the side of — not really sure.

“There is no official ‘green-collar’ worker definition just as there isn’t for other commonly cited terms, such as white collar and ‘blue collar,” says Bureau of Labor Statistics spokesman Gary Steinberg. “One sees green collar and green jobs increasingly used in public discourse, but because of the criteria limitations discussed above, we cannot at this time make any official assessments about the extent of such employment or its impacts on the overall economy.”

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/home/2008/08/green-collar.html