About Green Jobs

Salmon Valley Stewardship participates with other rural Westerners in the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC). The RVCC uses the following definition for rural green jobs:
"Rural green jobs provide high quality, living-wage employment protecting, restoring, and stewarding environmental quality. They include jobs that restore and maintain ecosystem functions and services, such as clean air, clean water, forest and rangeland health and biodiversity, as well as those that reduce energy, material, and water consumption and move us toward a low-carbon economy".