Pew report: Clean energy powers job growth - St. Louis Business Journal:

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study said Florida was one of 38 statea and the District of Columbia in which job growt h in the clean energy economyu outperformed overalljob gains. Pew defined a cleaj energy economy as one that generates businesses and investments while expanding clea nenergy production, increasing energy reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and and conserving water and other natural resources. In there was a 7.9 percentr increase in clean energy jobsfrom 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,12w jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard counr ofactual jobs, Pew said in a release, and range from jobs as diverse as engineers, plumbers, administrative assistants, constructionb workers, machine setters, marketing consultants and teachers with annualo incomes ranging from $21,000 to Nationally, jobs in the clean energy industry grew at a rate of 9.1 percen t between 1998 and 2007, while total jobs grew by 3.7 perceng in the same period, the report Florida had 3,831 clean energy businessesw at the end of 2007, a 22.
7 percent increas from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the report There were 236 clean energy patents in Floridza between 1999 and 2008, and venture capital firmxs invested $117 in clean technology in Floridwa between 2006 and 2008.