U.S. Department of Commerce, April 2010

The U.S. Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration has released a new report "Measuring the Green Economy," which provides an initial step toward measuring the size and composition of the emerging green economy and the number of green jobs it has created. Principal findings of the report include:

-- Shipments/receipts of green products and services comprise totaled between $371 billion to $516 billion in 2007.

-- The number of green jobs ranged from about 1.8 million to 2.4 million.

-- Green manufacturing jobs totaled between 200,000 and 240,000.

-- Green services jobs were much higher, and totaled between 1.4 million and 1.8 million.

-- Energy conservation, resource conservation and pollution control were the predominant green activities, accounting for about 80 to 90 percent of green shipments/receipts and employment.

http://www.esa.doc.gov/GreenEconomyReport/