{"id":2765,"date":"2008-02-22T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/02\/22\/the-state-of-green-jobs\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T09:22:09","slug":"the-state-of-green-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-state-of-green-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Green Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SignIf you are trying to plug into the green economy as a business owner or a green employee, <\/strong>I encourage you to read Kevin Doyle’s recent Hire Definition<\/a> post on the GRIST blog.<\/p>\n

Kevin Doyle, the president of Green Economy, a Boston-based training, consulting, and research firm and coauthor of The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World<\/em>, provides us with the best “State of the Green Job” summary I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for clear-cut data about the number of green jobs and which industries provide the most green jobs, you are likely to be a bit frustrated by Kevin’s assessment of green employment.<\/p>\n

Much like the recent GreenBiz’s State of Green Business<\/a> report I wrote about recently<\/a>, Kevin’s post highlights more questions than it answers.
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\nThe fact is the green economy is too new to quantify in any meaningful way.<\/strong> Not having clearly understood definitions of the variables that need to be measured is the biggest obstacle to solid statistics.
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