Today, Assembly Speaker John Perez and State Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg shared a new plan that would bring tons of new energy jobs to California, according to the Sacramental Business Journal. These types of jobs aren’t just coming to California, however. Across the country, clean energy and renewable energy jobs are becoming more and [...]
Green Collar Jobs
Green jobs are hot and getting hotter. The Obama administration recently committed $20 million to develop offshore wind energy and is now giving another $1.85 billion to build solar plants around the U.S. Of that large sum, $1.45 billion will be given to the Arizona plant, Abengoa Solara, which will put the money toward powering [...]
Workers in green collar jobs are in high demand, and as as renewable energy and environmental issues continue to affect nearly every industry, this job market will only continue to grow. Starting on July 7, you can be among the first students at the newly designed Ecotech Institute. Based in Aurora, Colorado, this is the [...]
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to find a better paying job? If you are going for the “green,” consider a green job! Disappointed by America’s continued flagging unemployment, President Obama is pushing for new legislation that will expand government funding for clean technology jobs. The proposal, as reported here by MSNBC, would give [...]
Business Week ran a fascinating article a few weeks ago about how to find a job during America’s economic recovery. As I’ve long been harping on here at the JobMonkey, the earliest growth will be in one of four fields: health care, education, government employment, and green business. In fact, these four fields have been [...]
If you are interested in earning green by going green, there is good news for you, according to a recent USA TODAY article: Students can choose from a variety of new “green” degree programs. The growth of the green collar job sector has led a number of colleges and universities to incorporate sustainability into their [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the United States has reached its highest unemployment rate in 25 years: 8.1%. More than 4.4 million jobs have been lost since December 2007, including the 651,000 lay-offs in February. Even worse news, say some economists, is the fact that so many of these jobs are in [...]
According to Scotland’s The Herald newspaper, green jobs aren’t just on the rise in the U.S., but in the U.K. as well. The British company Centrica recently announced plans to create 1,500 new green jobs, from engineering positions to green collar assignments. Jobs will include energy efficiency advisers and wind farm installers. On Monday, I [...]
