1) Federal Stimulus injection of over $1bn.
This, coupled with private efforts like Khosla’s $1bn+ fund are stimulation innovation across the board.

2) Return to Corporate Values
Industry leaders agree that green is good: for brands, for economies of efficiency, and for shareholders. Jobs in the CSR and environmental fields are blossoming at every level and location across corporate America — and the rest of the world.

3) Labor Markets got Engaged
Best-in-breed corporate citizens realize that going “green” is more than just a marketing proposition. Employees are driving change from the inside of organizations, pushing out new products and services that maximize the value in building lasting brands that invested in environmental sustainability.

The Bottom Line: Green Jobs are back, and poised to explode in a big way.

We see this in San Francisco, where for the first time in nearly 9 months, we see multiple jobs posted, firms calling inbound, and the pace of placement picking up.

We hope you’ll join as we build this movement, and help 2010 be the year of the environmental leader.

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President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

The resignation comes as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones “continues to work in the administration.”

The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones’ name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officials had allowed the attacks to occur.

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones said in his resignation statement. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”

Jones said he has been “inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight.”

But he said he cannot in good conscience ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his past.

Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not agree with the petition’s stand on the 9/11 attacks and that “it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever.”

As for his other comments he made before joining Obama’s team, Jones said, “If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”

Despite his apologies, Republicans demanded Jones quit.

Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana said in a statement, “His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate.” Missouri Sen. Christopher Bonds said Congress should investigate Jones’s fitness the job.

Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

James Rucker, the organization’s executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn’t even know about the campaign before it started.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

Nancy Sutley chair of the council, said in a statement released early Sunday that she accepts Jones resignation and thanked him for his service.

“Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources,” she said. “We appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward.”

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- Finding opportunities that already exist in the green economy, – Discovering opportunities in your current job, and – Creating opportunities based on your knowledge, skills, and experience.

The green economy really is making strides, even if traditional media sources aren’t giving it a lot of coverage.

One caveat: Much of the political and economic news you see about the green economy is focusing on Green Collar Jobs: blue collar trade jobs that contribute to green efforts. Although this information is helpful in understanding the green economy, it doesn’t tell the entire story. What most of these news stories miss is the Green Professional Jobs: white collar jobs that contribute to green and sustainable efforts.

Green Professional Jobs may not have “green” job titles. Not all of them are in the renewable energy industries that are getting some press attention these days. You may need to do your homework to sort out where the green professional jobs are in your area. Though you may not be hearing about them at this point, they are out there. More and more companies are stepping up to face their own sustainability, or lack there of. In a recent Green Economy Post article (http://greeneconomypost.com/corporate-sustainability-reporting-increased-dramatically-3608.htm) a new study by Global Reporting Initiative (http://www.globalreporting.org/Home) reports that there’s been a 46% increase in the number of global companies providing sustainability reports, from 685 in 2007 to 1000 in 2008. If you want to dig into the list of companies who are providing reports, download the spreadsheet report via link on this page. (http://www.globalreporting.org/GRIReports/GRIReportsList/)

For now, take heart that we continue to see more and more evidence each day that the green economy is happening. (You might want to subscribe to a few blogs so that you see daily evidence of this trend. It helps to get the reinforcement that investments, innovation and growth really are happening on a daily basis.)

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