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Title: Green Technologies and Practices - August 2011
Description: Presents data from the Green Technologies and Practices survey, a survey of business establishments designed to collect data on establishments’ use of green technologies and practices and the occupations of workers who spend more than half of their time involved in green technologies. 75% of business establishments used at least 1 type of green technology in the reference period; the two most frequently reported types of green technologies and practices were those that improve energy efficiency within the establishment, reported by 57 percent of establishments, and those that reduce the creation of waste materials as a result of operations, reported by 55 percent of establishments.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120585

Title: Reduce, reuse, recycle: green technologies and practices at work
Description: Provides the results of a special tabulation of the data from the Green Technologies and Practices survey, from 2012. Reports on the number and distribution of employers who use more than 1 green practice.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120592

Title: Occupational wages and employment in Green goods and services - November 2011
Description: Presents data from a sample during the survey period of November 2011. Amongst the finding: five of the 6 largest detailed occupations in all-green establishments were in the transportation and material moving occupational group. These 5 occupations were school or special client bus drivers (174,450); transit and intercity bus drivers (111,760); refuse and recyclable materials collectors (56,930); hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers (54,890); and heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers (39,060).
Identifier (PID): yul:1120591

Title: Measuring Green Industry Employment: Developing a Definition of Green Goods and Services
Description: This paper reviews the process used by BLS to define green goods or services, in the process of developing its survey in 2010. Includes an extensive review of definitions used in existing green data publications and studies from various agencies, including State governments, Eurostat, Statistics Canada, and private research institutions. With an understanding of the definitions from existing literature and after discussions with various environmental and government organizations, BLS reviewed each North American Industrial Classification System industry code to identify each industry’s potential to produce green goods or services.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120589

Title: Green Goods and Services Survey: Results and collection
Description: An overview of the survey methods of the Green Goods and Services survey, and an analysis of the data for 2010 and 2011. The GGS survey was discontinued in March 2013.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120584

Title: Employment in Green Goods and Services - 2011
Description: Results of the Green Goods and Services survey, using NAICS codes. This report cumulates the results from 2010 and 2011, the only years the survey was conducted.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120581

Title: Employment in Green Goods and Services - 2010
Description: The first year of results for the Green Goods and Services survey, measuring the extent of green jobs in the U.S., using the BLS unique definition. A second report released in 2013 cumulates and adjusts this information.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120580