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Pew Charitable Trusts reports 770,000 green jobs in ‘07, growing nearly three times as fast as mainstream job sectors

In Washington, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its Clean Energy Economy report, the first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs. Pew found that green-collar job hiring increased 9 percent between 1998-2007, more than double the rate of conventional jobs, but slowed during the recession.
Pew said that 68,200 businesses filled 770,000 clean energy jobs in 2007, with [...]

June 12, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Renewable Energy Jobs group launches Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channels Survey; Digest readers invited

The Renewable Energy Jobs group, which is active in the Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest LinkedIn Group as well as providing thousand of green job opportunities online, has launched the first Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channels Survey comparing how job seekers find jobs within the sector globally.
The results should make very interesting reading and will certainly [...]

May 20, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Every green job created in eight years by the Spanish government came at the expense of 2.2 regular jobs lost.”

“House Minority Leader John Boehner previously estimated one green-job bill “would spend a whopping $275,000 in taxpayer dollars for every new job it aims to create,” effectively taxing each U.S. household $6,700. “Green jobs are not so much created as they are bought with massive taxpayer subsidies,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., who released the [...]

May 05, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0