Unfortunately, jobs are getting scarcer and home foreclosures are on the rise, both here and across the country. But there is help available now and in the near future.

Soon-to-be electricians learn some of the benefits of using power-saving technology at a Green Expo -- a job fair highlighting the promising new employment generator of a green economy.

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Sintayehu Tekle of Seattle is an apprentice, looking for a job in solar energy. He says a green job revolution is coming.

"A lot of people are unemployed and green is going to be the solution, I think, for the future," said Tekle. "Green is a good opportunity because there are so many jobs right now that have been lost, so many people in Washington are unemployed, that green will get you those jobs that you need."

Jobs like building hybrid vehicles -- even giant hybrid trucks now being built by local trucking giant Paccar.

Doug Howell of the National Wildlife Federation predicts 5 million new jobs in green technology nationally, and 25,000 here in Washington state.

"We talk about how blue collar America built this country, well it's going to be green collar America that's going to transform it," said Howell.

That's assuming blue and green collar Americans have homes to return to. State Attorney General Rob McKenna is predicting a sharp rise in foreclosures in our state in the next couple of years. He will be taking part in tomorrow's special "mortgage intervention workshop" at the Cedarbrook Leadership Center in SeaTac to help homeowners facing foreclosure.

That mortgage intervention workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 and is open to anyone struggling with their mortgage payments.