Where the jobs are, green edition
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Green jobs are growing like, well, weeds, analysts tell us. If you want to know what these jobs are and where they can be found in California, visit a new mapping website from the Environmental Defense Fund.
The site allows you to search for companies that do things such as retrofit homes for energy efficiency, manufacture parts for renewable energy systems, build electric cars or process advanced fuels.
Web surfers can search for companies by city, county or -- strangely enough -- congressional district. Not so strange, according to Margot Roosevelt of our sister blog, Greenspace.
Why congressional district? Well, that would be so constituents could tell their representatives how much green business is at stake when they decide how to vote on American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the sweeping legislation that seeks to control global warming emissions while creating green jobs. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), is expected to reach the floor of the House of Representatives by July 4.
Click on the congressional district of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Orange) for instance, and one can count more than 40 green businesses, including Catalina Solar & Wind in Avalon, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. in Seal Beach, and Doran Electric Vehicles in Huntington Beach.
This would be the same Congressman Rohrabacher who sent out a press release this week calling climate legislation ‘The Biggest Power Grab in History’ and touting himself as ‘among Congress’ most outspoken opponents of global warming alarmism.’
The enviromental group says the site is a ‘work in progress,’ with new companies joining the roughly 2,200 counted so far.
Los Angeles County is tops with 398 green businesses. San Diego and Orange counties are neck-and-neck for the No. 2 spot with 208 and 202, respectively.
--Nancy Rivera Brooks
