The Detroit-Ann Arbor region ranks No. 14 in the U.S. in clean-tech job activity in a new “Clean Tech Job Trends 2009″ according to a report from Clean Edge Inc.

Michigan has experienced a massive job loss in other sectors ans this ranking is a good news that feels encouraging. This can serve as something to remind us that we are still far from the top of the green job races. The ranking is going to rise in the following years as can be attributed to the high-profile recent activity which includes the redevelopment of the abandoned Ford Wixom plant to manufacture renewable energy and hundred million research facility on clean -energy research that GE is opening near Belleville.

According to Clean Edge, they have compiled a list by using the present and past job postings, early stage and public market investment activity, the presence of clean-tech jobs, and clean-energy patent activity.

“Although the 15 metro areas listed above are current hotbeds of clean-tech job activity, they are far from the only places to find quality employment in the sector,” the report says. “The clean-tech revolution is a highly dispersed phenomenon – unlike the earlier high-tech revolution with its epicenter of Silicon Valley. No one place or region will control any one clean-tech sector.”

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