New career/job -- Prius greenish

I'm very good at what I do (magazine graphics and design), but hate the people I work with. Newspapers are folding left and right. I've been doing what I've been doing far too long. I need a fresh start.

How can a smart, computer loving, green person get started on a new path with all the new federal money?

I'll go back to school, but I just assume jump in and get on the job training. I enjoy getting may hands dirty (literally and figuratively).

So tell me, sho's hiring and who's doing the good college programs and internships?

Ideas? thoughts?