Here’s a thought for job seekers and businesses alike: Go green.
It’s one of the few areas of the economy on its way to robust growth. As we point out here every day, money’s flowing to companies and firms are scaling up new green projects at a pace that’s pretty tough to keep up with.
Well, all those projects and companies mean employment, as the Phoenix Business Journal reports.
“Clearly, a company that does sustainability is in a growth sector,” Dave Thompson, founder and CEO of Gilbert, Ariz., alternative fuels firm Diversified Energy Corp., tells the business journal.
The estimates are pretty impressive. In a report earlier this year, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst predicted 14.3 million people could see their jobs go green in the next few years. That’s likely to pick up, according to a report last year by American Solar Energy Society. In the November report, the society claims there are already 8 million workers in the renewable energy or energy efficiency industries and that number could climb to 40 million by 2030.
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