Inspite of the hiring being slowed down by recession, green-collar jobs are growing double than that of traditional jobs. Clean Energy Economy study which is billed as the U.S.’s first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs states that Green-collar hiring took a hit during the current recession and may accelerate beyond its 1998-2007 growth rate of about 9% a year which is more than double the 3.7% growth rate for traditional jobs.
As a fact more than 68,200 jobs across 50 states and the District of Columbia accounted for about 770,000 jobs …

Today is a video day. NASCIO, community organization representing all state CIOs, have this good video urging member states to adopt Green IT.
This is well timed to benefit from Obama’s renewable energy intiative.