Good companion piece for programming about the impact of China's subsidies to its clean energy industries on the U.S. job market.
Denis Du Bois interviews Ron Pernick, founder and managing partner of research firm Clean Edge, about the "Clean Tech Job Report 2010" released today (6 Oct 2010). Pernick discusses the U.S. cities that are hot spots for cleantech job creation, the payscales for those green jobs, the global picture for cleantech employment growth, the role of China, and how the United States can get its innovation mojo back. Meanwhile, since foreign companies will be creating a majority of green collar jobs, those jobs might as well be in the U.S. (4 minutes)
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Good companion piece for programming about the impact of China's subsidies to its clean energy industries on the U.S. job market.
Denis Du Bois interviews Ron Pernick, founder and managing partner of research firm Clean Edge, about the "Clean Tech Job Report 2010" released today (6 Oct 2010). Pernick discusses the U.S. cities that are hot spots for cleantech job creation, the payscales for those green jobs, the global picture for cleantech employment growth, the role of China, and how the United States can get its innovation mojo back. Meanwhile, since foreign companies will be creating a majority of green collar jobs, those jobs might as well be in the U.S. (4 minutes)
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Air any time after 8:00 AM EDT Wednesday, 6 October 2010.
Transcript
DENIS DU BOIS: SOLAR POWER IS STILL A HOT SECTOR FOR GREEN JOB SEEKERS. EIGHT OF THE TOP TEN CLEAN-TECH EMPLOYERS ARE COMPANIES LOCATED OUTSIDE THE US. SIX OF THOSE COMPANIES ARE IN CHINA -- WHICH HAS AMBITIONS THE REST OF THE WORLD CAN'T IGNORE.
THOSE ARE THE KEY FINDINGS IN A NEW REPORT ON CLEAN TECH JOB TRENDS.
RON PERNICK, CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CLEAN EDGE, WHICH WROTE THE REPORT, SAYS THERE IS NO SINGLE EPICENTER OF CLEANTECH JOB GROWTH.
Ron Pernick: We continue to see a lot of concentration on the coasts, with San Francisco and LA in the top two spots, followed by Boston representing the east coast, and what happened in the Boston Cambridge corridor, along with New York. So that's three and four. So that's a big representation on the east and west coast. But it's not isolated to the coasts. As we pointed out in this report, Denver comes in at number five. We...
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00:01 IC: Solar power is still a hot sector...
03:57 OC: I'm Denis Du Bois
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Around the globe, cities and countries are looking to clean energy for the next wave of economic recovery and job growth. If you're looking for your opportunity in the cleantech revolution, you might want to check out "Clean Tech Job Trends 2010." Denis Du Bois has more...
OUTRO:If you want to examine the 29-page report for yourself, you can download "Clean Tech Job Trends 2010" free at CleanEdge.com.
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