Green Jobs News: T. Boone Pickens Kills Wind-Farm Plans

One of the most prolific supporters of green energy and wind technologies, oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, has scrapped one of his plans for a 200,000-acre wind farm in Texas.
What killed the scheme? Distribution and transmission of the energy that would be created from wind.
The transmission costs are too high right now.  It’s going to take a [...]

A Green Economy Is Really Down the Road

While it was recently reported that green jobs and clean-energy jobs have been growing at a decent pace since 1998, their influence on the current job market has been rather limited.
The Obama administration would like to see environmentally conscious businesses and technologies become a major part of how the United States thrives in coming years. But are [...]

Recruiters on Job Openings and Job Trends in Boston

Recruiters claim Boston’s cluster of IT and biotechnology institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (above) are spurring a small, but strong boom in software jobs with a focus on health care, cloud computing, open source and search engine specialists.

From CFOs to social-media experts to mobile developers for iPhone apps, recruiters in the Boston-area speak [...]

Top Careers: Green Jobs and Renewable Energy

What will be the top careers and top jobs of the future? You only need to look to the recent past for answers.
A study released this week by the Pew Charitable Trusts concludes that jobs in the clean, renewable energy and green-jobs category have grown at more than double the rate of other job categories.  [...]