There’s been a debate recently about whether green jobs save the economy? and now a new study has been released that further questions this issue. The study, a collaboration of academics and researchers from four U.S. universities, looked at report data from some major organizations, including…

The American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
The Center for American Progress
The U.S. Conference of Mayors
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

THE MYTHS OF GREEN JOBS:
According to the findings of this new study, the following are the 7 myths of green jobs.

“Everyone understands what a “green job” is.
Creating green jobs will boost productive employment.
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In the last post I mentioned the NPR piece on green jobs and economic stimulus. If you’re pro-green jobs, and wondering how you can get one, I’ve compiled a list of places you might start looking.
The Treehugger job board -everything from writers, to program directors, to LED lighting sales, and more. Updated fairly frequently.
Green Jobs – mainly employment that’s renewable energy related.
Grist: Jobs – educational jobs, green building, tech, and more. Not oodles of jobs, but updated often.
Care2 JobFinder – seems to have mostly high tech green jobs, but I haven’t spent too much time there.
GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK – smaller …read more

NPR recently had a nice little piece going on, Can ‘Green Jobs’ Stimulate The Economy?.
On the side of yes: Many folks, among them, Barack Obama, think that green jobs are a key component of stimulating our sadly strangling economy. There’s tax incentives for green building projects along with, of course, the people who will be needed to install said green projects. According to NPR, green tech evangelist John Doerr says, “The green revolution has much greater potential for job creation than the Internet did.”
On the side of no: People think that green is too long a project to create sudden …read more