Green Career Trends: Pew Study Says Green Jobs Grew 9.1%, Project FROG to Build Zero-Net Energy School Building, NRG Energy to Build 92 Megawatt Solar Plant

According to a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts, green jobs grew at a rate of 9.1% between 1998 and 2007, while traditional job growth rate was only 3.7% for the same time period.  Even with a lack of sustained government support during the period, the green economy grew nearly two and one half times faster.  By the end of 2007, approximately 68,200 businesses in the U.S.accounted for about 770,000 green jobs/careers.

Project FROG (Flexible Response to Ongoing Growth) will be building the first zero-net energy building in a cold climate for the Center for Science and Global Citizenship at the Watkinson School in Hartford, Conn.  The company says its buildings are better, faster, greener and cheaper than traditional buildings.  Project Frog is also aiming to replace the trailers now used as classrooms on many school campuses in CA. Here are some photos of their completed buildings.

NRG Energy (based in Princeton, NJ) announced plans to build a solar thermal plant in New Mexico and sell the electricity to El Paso Electric.  The plant would be situated 10 miles from the city of El Paso and use solar thermal equipment from eSolar to achieve a production capacity of 92 megawatts.

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[Stan]

You can see green jobs being created all the time now. With new tax credits available for things like geothermal heat pumps, going green becomes more appealing to consumers. That creates jobs for people who can install them and that is just one example.