By Rona Fried of SustainableBusiness.com, today’s guest blogger
The benefits of going green are finally bearing fruit. As the general economy suffers and we hear about nothing but pain day after day, on the other side of the coin, all we hear about from the green industry is growth.
We see this for ourselves each day as the number of jobs posted on our Green Dream Jobs service escalates. We started the service with the dawn of the Internet some 12 years ago and what a difference a decade makes!
Back then, there were a few green building and renewable energy jobs, some non-profit jobs and scattered jobs throughout the budding sustainability industry. Today, the landscape has completely changed with renewable energy companies, energy management companies, green building firms and a host of other kinds of companies and non-profits creating legions of jobs. Solar companies, for example, are hiring hundreds of employees each - Spire Solar added 100 employees last year alone.
In fact, we’re seeing jobs from brand new industries that didn’t exist only 10 years ago in fields like carbon trading and energy storage and management.
We’re even seeing legislation supporting the growth of green jobs - it was one of the few elements of the recently passed energy bill. Green businesses will no doubt be the job creation engine going forward.
Editors note: Rona Fried, Ph.D. is President of SustainableBusiness.com, which hosts Green Dream Jobs and a green investor newsletter, Progressive Investor.
The views expressed above are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent The Element Agency. If you are interested in penning guest posts for My Green Element, please email Stefan Deeran via stefan@theelementagency.com.