Top Ten Green Jobs.

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-Perhaps an interesting side discussion. I've been reading articles like this for a decade, if any of these were going to be the next big thing, why have I met so few people pursuing them, why isn't there a huge groundswell of interest, and just where the fuck are all these people if they do exist?-

I don’t know about a huge ground swell, but I have noticed a marked increase in interest in recent years. You can’t take a piss in Huntsville without hitting a green startup company. Just last year we rented a 3500 SF space to some retired general that was standing up his own green company. He wasn’t using his own money either. There were investors. Someone other than him must have been interested.

Part of the reason you aren’t seeing it may be due to your location. When I lived in Knoxville I regularly saw trucks hauling huge blades for wind turbines west on I-40. During a trip to Fort Sill not long ago I got to see the relatively new 325 Megawatt Blue Canyon wind farm outside of Lawton. I’m in Corpus Christi right now and there are wind turbines all over place on the North side of the bay. Most of them built in the last 10 years. Texas currently gets 8% of its power from wind with plans to expand.

There is a growing interest in alternative energy. That interest is generating jobs in the manufacture, installation and maintenance of alternative energy generation. It is getting bigger it is just taking time.