green collar

Adjective

green-collar (comparative more green-collar, superlative most green-collar)

1. Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.
   • 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.
   • American [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's "green-collar" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and...