Mayors report: 4.2 million new green jobs possible

The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just released a Green Jobs report establishing a national Green Jobs Index that finds

[T]he U.S. economy currently generates more than 750,000 green jobs–a number that is projected to grow five-fold to more than 4.2 million jobs over the next three decades. The report … is the first calculation of its kind to measure how many direct and indirect jobs are in the new and emerging U.S. green economy.

The report notes “It could be the fastest growing segment of the United States economy over the next several decades and dramatically increase its share of total employment.”

In making its forecast, the report assumes growth in alternative energy that I think are both conservative and incomplete:

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