The 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference featured a Green Jobs Expo showcasing the many pathways to green jobs and careers, which surprisingly didn’t have any of the blue chip IT companies!

It definitely can’t be lack of awareness considering its hype everywhere, so what’s the deal here?

For example companies like HP, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft are not too excited about Obama’s green initiative. Actually these companies are not even  offering many green jobs. There is lot of talk about green computing initiatives but its not translating into green jobs or green certification/training.

So is this all green washing? CIO will demand demonstrable expertise, as any gear sold by vendors on green promise will create green portfolio related job roles. If vendors are not leading by example then what’s the incentive for CIOs to have resident energy efficiency experts.