A first-ever Michigan Green Jobs Report
predicts the creations of jobs in clean energy and energy efficiency
will be continuous over decades. Some of the state's success depends on
energy leaders being early deployers of technologies and manufacturing.
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Feeling green about Michigan’s future?
You should — and that’s not a bad feeling, according to the Michigan
Green Jobs Report. Despite all the negative economic news in Michigan,
the Green Jobs Report commissioned by the Department of Energy, Labor
and Economic Growth portends a bright future for the state as it
transitions into the green economy.
The report was released as
part of the Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow conference May 11 in Lansing.
The first-of-its-kind report shows more than 3 percent of Michigan’s
private-sector workforce is in green jobs, which amounts to about
109,000 positions across the state. Michigan’s green economy is
concentrated in five core areas: clean transportation and fuels,
agriculture and natural resource conservation, increased energy
efficiency, pollution prevention and environmental cleanup, and
renewable energy production.
Of those core areas, renewable
energy production, although providing a small percentage of the total
green jobs, grew the most of any sector between 2005 and 2008, jumping
30 percent.
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