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Green Job Searching: By the Numbers
- 3.3 million: Number of jobs which could be created by the Apollo Project, a $300 billion green investment plan named after the U.S. moon-shot program. For comparison, the April 2008 Federal Stimulus Package of consumer rebates amounted to about $100 billion.
- 5 million: Number of new green jobs that would be generated if 25% of all American energy were produced from renewable sources by 2025, according to the RAND Corporation and University of Tennessee.
- 154 million: The total workforce of the United States.
- 2.3 million: people employed in the renewable energy industry globally, in countries where data is available.
- 2 million: Employees in the oil and gas and oil refining sectors globally, in 1999.
- 25: Percent of Fortune 500 Companies that have a board committee member overseeing environmental performance, compared to 10 percent five years ago.
- $82,217: Average salary for hydrologists employed by the federal government in 2007. For comparison, the average salary for a man in 2007 was $45,113; $35,102 for a woman.
- 2018: Year all chemicals sold in Europe will have finished evaluations to ensure that the benefit to society from the use of the chemicals is greater than the health or environmental risks, under the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) law. Lots of work = lots of jobs. Not just in the E.U., but for every company that sells there.
- $100 million: Dollars the Energy Savings Act of 2007 allows in training for "green-collar jobs."
- 50: Number of countries which have established targets for renewable energy as part of Greenhouse Gas reduction policies.
- $1 trillion: Global sales, in dollars, from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and ocean wave power in 2030.
- 10: Times more workers employed by the environmental industry than the pharmaceutical industry, six times more than the apparel industry, and three times more than the chemical industry.
Sources: Apollo Alliances, Time magazine, BlueGreen Alliance, United Nations Environment Programme, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wikipedia, European Union, E Magazine, Foreign Policy in Focus, Wall Street Journal, Management Information Services, Inc.
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