Top Cities For Green Jobs (PHOTOS)

Clean Edge, a research firm with a focus on the "clean technologies" industry, recently released a report this month on employment in the clean-energy sector. Clean Edge explained its take on green jobs -- which are growing twice as fast as the national rate -- this way:

We define clean-tech jobs as those that are a direct result of the development, production, and/or deployment of technologies that harness renewable materials and energy sources; reduce the use of natural resources by using them more efficiently and productively; and cut or eliminate pollution and toxic wastes. There's no mistaking the types of jobs we're talking about - they include solar photovoltaic (PV) system installers, wind-turbine technicians, energy-efficiency software developers, green building designers, and clean-energy marketers.

Drawing on job postings, investment, and patent activity data, the report identifies the top fifteen metropolitan areas for clean-tech jobs. But, what do you think? Which city do you think has the best climate for green jobs. Check out the full list of cities is below and vote for which area you think will turn into a green jobs leader:

15. Houston -- Galveston -- Brazoria, TX

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[tones]

honestly i don't know why Chicago is on there. Were a green city just because we protect our parks that's about it.

[spaceship4theking]

End the war in iraq. End Guantanamo. NO more tax haven for the rich. NO more bailouts.

Reinstate COLA. Pass another stimulus designed specifically for JOB CREATION

good articles; http://financeopinionss.blogspot.com

Obama please reform heath care and get unemployment benefits passed ASAP

[RomeoMD25]

The centerpiece of the U.S. emerging market for carbon emissions trading, is the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), created in 2003 as a "voluntary," or pilot agency, part of a London-based network positioned to reproduce the oil bubble on a scale orders of magnitude greater and more dangerous, while at the same time, destroying what's left of the physical economy.

The idea is that if governments cap CO2 emissions, then the "market" will take off for the buying and selling of emissions "allowance­s." This is the whole point of the "cap-and-trade" plan for CO2. If it sounds crazy, it is. But Gore is just one of the most visible parts of the elaborate (and bi-partisan) schemes that have been set in motion under cover of climate change. Gore's personal financial involvement is blatant, especially through Goldman Sachs—a large shareholder of CCX, and in 2004, the creator of Gore's very own London-based hedge fund, Generation Investment Management.

Among the 85-plus members of the CCX to date are DuPont, Duquesne Light Co. (owned by Macquarie), Ford, American Electric Power, and Smithfield Foods, plus the state of New Mexico, city of Chicago and other governments. One prominent CCX participant is Green Mountain Energy, run by the Wyly family of Texas, and big moneybags for Bush in the Presidential elections; three Wyly family members each gave $10,000 to the Swift Boat "527 Committee" to slander John Kerry in 2004.

[LastStar]

In Boise, I've seen a huge increase in the number of cyclists on the streets commuting, shopping etc. As a long time rider it makes my heart soar like an eagle.

Sharing the road is an evolving concept motorist are finally beginning to understand. We still have a ways to go but it is a nice start.

[watchTVgetSTUPID]

Top cities for green jobs are all in China. There is no way to compete against low cost labor manufactured solar cells and wind mills. If you make more than $2 an hour, then you are high cost labor that can not compete. Can you live on $4000 per year with NO benefits? Unless balanced trade is enforced with tariffs, there will be no jobs.

[JScott]

Hmm seems to list just about every large city in the US.

[gawd]

Portland Oregon...t­he best of them all.

[TazoWolf]

Denver / Boulder... hybrid buses, Taxis running on propane, expansion of our light rail, bike lanes and bike paths EVERYWHERE!!! We even have "bike to work" day every year, and other events to encourage alternative transporta­tion... oh, and great ride sharing.

[TazoWolf]

Not to mention the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), tons of alternative power options (they were even marketing solar energy at the farmer's market), and the new energy source in Greeley... conversion of methane from the stock yards.

[RomeoMD25]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/26/newsweek-green-subsidies-arent-working/

Newsweek: Green subsidies aren’t working

[bzb]

How interesting only one southern city made the list Houston.

[DANOSC]

Austin is in the South as well as Houston.

[DANOSC]

As is Washington, DC.

[TinfoilLatte]

I see that Beck wasn't able to kill the green jobs movement, even if he tried.

Pretty much the only thing that would kill it, I think, would be bad press, a company buying the technologies out and sitting on it, or an act of Congress. Fortunately, if members of Congress at any point in time tried, we'd probably have forewarning and they'd have to scrap the plan.

[NotALemming]

It does seem that cities that require water to be trucked in from thousands of miles away and that require enormous amounts of air-conditioning in order to sustain human life would have to do a spectacular job in greening just to reach a neutral color.....­..
This disqualifies a large part of the photographed cohort above.

[DANOSC]

I fail to see the connection between western cities that depend on water from far away and green jobs. For example, Los Angeles depends on water delivered by an elaborate system of canals from northern parts of the state. Actually, the way the water is delivered is pretty green. Also, the city has stringent--and I mean stringent--water use regulations that reward conservation and punish waste and overuse. People in Orange Co., just south of Los Angeles, are the leaders in using brown water and even cleaned up sewage water for all uses, including, drinking! The most surprising statistic for California is that, as a whole, the state uses the same amount of energy it used in 1978 even though the populations had more than doubled. No other state can claim those bragging rights--none.

[oldGunny]

Great points Danosc.
Now all we need is a legislature that can control spending and pass a budget.
Either way, I'm staying here.