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 …

BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings around the world, with over 110,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered.These Buildings can be used to assess the environmental performance of any type of building (new and existing).It sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and has become the de facto measure used to describe a building’s environmental performance. Credits are awarded in eight categories according to performance. These credits are then added together to produce a single …