{"id":1292,"date":"2012-02-08T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-02-08T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:43:42","slug":"californias-green-economy-doubled-performance-of-total-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/californias-green-economy-doubled-performance-of-total-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Green Economy Doubled Performance of Total Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the non-partisan environmental think tank Next 10 shows that between 2009 and 2010, the \u201ccore green economy\u201d in California \u2014 comprised of companies that provide products or services to cut natural resource use, re-purpose waste, and reduce global warming pollution \u2014 experienced half the number of job losses seen in the state\u2019s broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>Between January of 2009 and January of 2010, California\u2019s economy shed 7% of jobs; however, the green economy saw only a 3% reduction in jobs. And from 1995 to 2010, the green economy in the state grew by 53%\u00a0\u2014 far outpacing the 12% growth in the rest of the economy during that period of time.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/02\/08\/421119\/california-green-economy-doubled-performance-of-total-economy\/\">Recession Resilience: California&#8217;s Green Economy Doubled Performance of Total Economy During Downturn | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the non-partisan environmental think tank Next 10 shows that between 2009 and 2010, the \u201ccore green economy\u201d in California \u2014 comprised of companies that provide products or services to cut natural resource use, re-purpose waste, and reduce global warming pollution \u2014 experienced half the number of job losses seen in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,111,22],"tags":[859,857,858,37,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}