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Top 10 Metropolitan Areas for Clean Economy Jobs
Of the 2.7 million U.S. clean economy jobs, major cities like New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco employ workers in industries such as mass transit, while green manufacturing jobs are found mostly in the South and Midwest.
Posted 7/ 13 11 at 2:30 PM | News, Energy, Environmental Services, Inventions & Innovations
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The top metropolitan area for clean economy jobs is New York/Northern New Jersey, followed by Los Angeles, according to a new study by Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings Institution. Rounding out the top 10 are Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Atlanta; Boston; Houston, and Dallas.The study reports that approximately 2.7 million people work under the "clean economy" umbrella -- more than in the fossil fuel and bioscience fields but fewer than in the IT sector. Despite the recession, clean energy added 500,000 jobs between 2003 and 2010, with annual growth of 3.4 percent.
Broken down by region, the South created the most of these jobs, with seven of 21 states providing at least 50,000 clean jobs. On the state level, California reports the highest number of clean jobs, while Alaska and Oregon claim the most clean jobs per worker.
The clean economy encompass sectors from the more traditional public services, waste water, and mass transit industries to more innovative industries, such as solar and wind energy, fuel cells, biofuel and smart grids.
Metropolitan areas such as New York City and San Francisco tend to have a high concentration of service-oriented clean jobs due to industries such as mass transit. Many of the green manufacturing jobs are located in Southern and Midwestern cities such as Louisville and Cleveland, while Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Los Angeles have multidimensional economies that include mass transit, architecture and manufacturing.
The greatest growth in clean economy jobs occurred in places with an already heavy concentration of a specific type of green business, such as environmental services in Houston, solar photovoltaic in Los Angeles, fuel cells in Boston, and wind technology in Chicago. These clusters of green industry grew 1.4 percent faster than did isolated industries.
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WHY HAS HUFFINGTON POSTHAVE SO MUCH POWER?. THEYARE DEMOCRATIC AND I CAN SEE THAT. DID OSTUPID GET THEM TO TAKE OVER SINCE OMORON DOESN'T NEED ANYONES PERMISSION TO PASS LAWS . NOT EVEN CONGRESS
The only time anyone thinks this is important is when they are diagnosed with cancer. Human Life should have a value. You should be worth more than a Teflon Pot. If Capitalism got its way and there was no EPA, your life expentancy would be 40 years. If you don't believe that all 50 States filed lawsuits against Dupont. They are winning them. 3 out of 4 non smoking woman are diagnosed with lung cancer. Google: Teflon Cancer Lawsuit and send a Thank you note to enviromentalist everywhere.
WHAT DREAM ARE YOU IN? MY GRANDSON HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR A JOB ANYWHERE BUT ILLEGALS AND HISPANIC GET ALL THE JOBS AND ALL THEY KNOW IS QUE????ITS TIME CSTUPID STARTED DEPORTING AND MAYBE TAKE HIS EYES OFF OF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS WHICH BY THE WAY I PAID INTO FOR AT LEAST 60 YEARS. WRONG MOVE OSTUPID.
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What this article completely ignores is that to gain any jobs in the so called "clean and correct" loses many more before it. The awful over regulation and stupidity has forced all of our jobs overseas where they do not have such a PC and overbearing government run amuck.
We DO need to control things in a balanced and reasoned way, and we MUST all protect the environment.... I do NOT mean the fake Global Warming Crisis trumped up to further manipulate the spread of wealth Marxist Doctrines. I mean we must neveer go back to no controls, while never allowing idiots to get too much power and destroy an entire economy. Like we are now...
If that is the case then the rich Repubs should not have to pay for the entitlements. They pay more than anyone else. I keep hearing from the president and all of the dems about everyone has to have skin in the game. When will the 40% of Americans put up? Don't punish the wealthy they provide the most jobs. If you fleece the golden goose eventually it stops laying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For your information when the demographics of the two parties are exposed, the super rich are found to be Democrats, while the GOP contains more small business owners. The party of the fat cats is the democrats.
Those Rich Republicans who never pay taxes, actually have no right for intitlements whom are holding there hand just as the poor whom actually have an insurance claim and collect on there polecy.
why don't we cut the 16,000 IRS jobs created by Obamacare to oversee the mandate?
what a waste....
Your grandchild needs to be educated in this field to get a job in it. Really that was a bit off.
well for all you folks with clean jobs great but what about all the people who arenty working thanks to the clean people look around you they have turned the usa into a thrid rate country people are losing their homes and have no jobs and no money to eat and you stupid jerks want to talk about all the clean jobs what a bunch of no good jerks you are
What a bunch of idiots there are on this blog. Blame it on the Mexicans! Blame it on Obama! Blame it on the Democrats! Blame it here! Blame it there! Blame it on anybody but ourselves! We have forgotten that we have mechanized everything important job we do over the last sixty years. Machines now do the jobs that we used to do sixty years ago (can't blame it on them, it wouldn't be right). Also, we don't want to do the hard and cheap labor so we farm it out to China and Mexico. The jobs that most undocumented aliens perform in this country such as harvesting, domestic labor, and manual labor don't pay a living wage and we don't send our children to college just to do that kind of labor...and, by the way, slavery has been outlawed (dammit!). Who are we fooling? The rest of the world see us for who we are... HYPOCRITS AND RACISTS!! It is time for us to see us for who we are!! Now that we are doing that, let's get up off of our lazy fatt butts and think outside of the box. (Watch for future comments and solutions)
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX:
THE SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT IN 90 DAYS
In an era of high unemployment, one must think out of the box for a long lasting and sustainable solution. With almost one-tenth of the working population out of a job we have to look at the causes and effects of mass unemployment. There are many obvious causes and some not so obvious ones. Let’s look at the obvious ones first.
Cost of Energy
Financial Distress
Mortgage Failure
High Taxes
Population Over-growth
High Medical Costs
High Insurance Costs
Now, let’s look at oblivious ones.
Internet Technology Growth Explosion
Explosion of Computer Technology
Equipment Automation
High Product Production Costs
High Cost of Living
Over Supply of Human Resources
Unfunded Government Rules and Regulations
Importing of High End Products
High Balance of Trade with China
Let’s look at possible new job creation.
Intergenerational Services
Green Technologies
Alternative Energy Sources
New Automation / Drone Delivery Vehicles
Next Generation Space Exploration
New Urban Farming Potential Using Hydroponics
New Educational Techniques…In Home and Private Schooling
...More to follow...
Well Bill.....has been tried in Europe and failed there!!!!!! While it looks good on paper it wont fix the problem. Nice try so....
Now, let’s look at some solutions.
Let's create Four Day Work Weeks with Five Day Business Weeks. There was a time when this was the norm in the south after the second world war to get people back to work. This can work again.
The following outline is designed to put people back to work immediately.
01. Change the work week from 40 hours to 32 hours and keep current employee pay the same for existing workers. After all, companies are loaded with cash these days!
02. The business week would remain the same (5 days a week) creating a space for an additional worker for every existing 4 workers (1:4) re-assigned to a 32 hours work week
03. Hire a new worker for every 4 people that go on the 32 hour work week
04. Give tax breaks to every company that goes on the program. After all, we are already giving tax breaks to the oil companies.
05. Encourage companies with 100 people or more on the payroll to participate. Every 100 jobs that go to 32 hours will create 25 new job positions. After all, those companies will make that money back as people start to spend more money.
06. Enact the program for a minimum of 2 years
07. Use unemployment compensation to offset part of the new employee’s salary with participating companies.
08. Give employer training tax breaks to offset costs of the companies that participate.
09. Help participating companies in marketing their products and services overseas.
10. Reduce taxes on dividends that are paid to investors of the companies that participate. After all, they are already getting tax breaks.
This program will get people back to work in 6 months or less. Use the Georgia Department of Labor model to set up the program. Talk to Michael Thurmond, the former Georgia Labor Commissioner. He knows how to set up the program. He has experience in setting up such programs.
Van Jones leading the world in Green jobs, laughable, this clown is all green on the outside but red on the inside. It's about communism, worshipping their god, Karl Marx. You libs have been lied to and now you are the useful idiots. Wonder how much money Jones, Gore stand to gain on your ignorance? My grandparents lived longer than most today, there wasn't a EPA communist like that fat broad we have today making life miserable for everyone. These people are full of themselves and their doctrine of dollar worship, eh mother earth worship. Never seen a communist that wasn't corrupt.
Interesting that they reported the trend from two years BEFORE Obama took office. So how many of these jobs have been created SINCE Obama took office? When there is a large shift in a trend, such as job growth, reporting figures from before the trend shifted is absolutely useless.
OH LOOK whose picture headlines this story. The Corrupt One himself, King Mike. You better believe he has his fat, greedy hands in the bucket (and YOUR wallet) for this one. He just buys whatever the hec he wants...like the mayors office.
This is an excerpt from the Brookings Institute as reported by the LA Times:
California leads nation in 'green jobs,' study says The Brookings Institution report,
While the overall U.S. economy expanded at a 4.2% annual rate between 2003 and 2010, the national clean economy grew just 3.4% annually, according to the Brookings study.
John Van Scoter, chief executive of Burbank solar company ESolar Inc., said that one of his customers likens green business in the United States to dealing with 50 countries.
"Each state has a different expectation and goal," he said. "They're very intermittent and they change at a whim. There's nothing that project developers and financiers can put any confidence in."
I think some of the inclusions as Green Jogs is suspect, but in any cse, there is a long way to go before this Industry becomes a Microsoft.
USA is a pauper nation