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Michigan & California Commended for Creating New Green-Related Jobs
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
An op-ed in U.S. News and World Report, written by former Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo, commended Michigan and California as a success in creating new, green jobs based on policies that promote a clean environment and renewable and sustainable energy sources.
Green job growth is not segregrated to just two states. Opportunity in the green sector is happening nationwide - especially for indivudals who seek green career training. Read Ringo's report for more details:
The statistics don't lie: Even without a comprehensive national policy, clean energy jobs in the United States have grown at more than twice the rate of overall jobs over the past decade, according to a 2009 study by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Passage of a federal clean energy and climate bill will increase these job numbers exponentially by unleashing a torrent of economic innovation that has the potential not only to save our environment and climate but also to revive the U.S. economy.
Several states are already demonstrating the kind of positive economic transformation that can result from progressive clean energy and climate measures. In four years, Michigan has created more than 11,000 renewable energy jobs-at family-sustaining wages-and the state recently adopted a standard requiring that at least 10 percent of its power come from renewable sources by 2015.
Another sterling example is California. The state's decades-long commitment to forward-thinking climate policies has caused green job growth to outpace overall job creation in the state by a rate of almost 3 to 1 since 1995. A study released in December by Collaborative Economics and Next 10 showed that even during the economic crisis, green jobs in California grew 5 percent between 2007 and 2008 while total jobs dropped 1 percent.
Source: The Michigan Messenger
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