Pew report: Clean energy powers job growth - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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study said Florida was one of 38 statese and the District of Columbia in which job growth in the cleamn energy economy outperformed overalojob gains. Pew defined a cleab energy economy as one thatgeneratew jobs, businesses and investments while expanding cleahn energy production, increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas waste and pollution, and conserving water and otherd natural resources. In Florida, there was a 7.9 percent increas e in clean energy jobsfrom 28,845 jobs in 1998 to 31,12w2 jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard count of actual Pew said ina release, and range from jobs as diverswe as engineers, plumbers, administrative construction workers, machine setters, marketing consultants and teachers with annuao incomes ranging from $21,000 to Nationally, jobs in the clean energy industry grew at a rate of 9.1 percenty between 1998 and while total jobs grew by 3.7 percentg in the same period, the report says. Floridqa had 3,831 clean energy businesses at the end of a 22.7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the reporty says.
There were 236 clea energy patents in Florida betweenm 1999and 2008, and venturse capital firms invested $117 in clean technology in Floridwa between 2006 and 2008.