In 2010, 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with the production of green goods and services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Green Goods and Services (GGS) jobs are found in businesses that produce goods and provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources. GGS jobs accounted for 2.4 percent of total employment in 2010. The private sector had 2.3 million GGS jobs and the public sector had 860,300. Manufacturing had 461,800 GGS jobs, the most among any private sector industry.

Among the states, California had the largest number of GGS jobs (338,400), accounting for 2.3 percent of employment in the state. Vermont had the highest proportion of GGS employment at 4.4 percent; the District of Columbia had the second highest at 3.9 percent.

For the full report:
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/ggqcew.nr0.htm

 

In an article by Jason Mick, Daily Tech, we hear that CERN is breaking all the physics laws that I lived by.   Leave it to those CERN folks to turn everything upside down.  Hey, Captain Kirk and crew had (will have) it right!  Of course, more research is necessary.  Funds anyone?

The Philadelphia Science Festival begins next week! The festival kicks off on April 15 and runs through April 28. With over 100 events scheduled, the festival promises something for scientists of all ages.

Enjoy a science-filled Saturday at the Carnival along the Ben Franklin Parkway on April 16. On April 27 and 28, attend the Laureate and Luminary Symposium to listen to some of today’s greatest minds discuss current topics.

Other events of interest

• Fun with Physics with Bill Berner
• Towers & Catapults design competition
• Physics at the Ballpark
• Physics of the Art Museum
• Playground Physics at Franklin Square

To start planning your festival schedule, check out the events calendar.

Watch the official Philadelphia Science Festival video.

My colleague Jay Bhatt recently shared the response from the good folks at Access Science about properly citing an article from this worthwhile resource.  It is always a good sign when a student is serious about citing a resource correctly.  The question was about the correct date of the article.  Here is the response, which I think merits sharing further.

To answer your and your student’s question, the original article you ask about—”Hybrid automotive power systems”—was published in the 2008 print edition of the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology and appeared online as a Research Update soon afterwards. Although the publication year does not appear in the online citation (if that is required, you may use the date of that you viewed or downloaded the article), there is a way to tell when a yearbook article first appeared. The secret is within the url itself: http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB080630

The end of that url has a unique id number. This one, YB080630, tells you that the article was from the Yearbook 2008 (“YB08”).

 The website itself is updated several times a week. This can involve adding brand new articles to the site; adding news or resource guides or links to the homepage; or republishing articles that have been revised since they were first published.

The numbers that you see at the end of the article (“DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB080630”) refer to the article’s “DOI” number, or digital object identifier. This is a unique and permanent way to identify and find a particular article wherever it moves. As one website below explains, the DOI is like your article’s social security number, rather than it’s home address (url), which may change. You can see in our case that our articles’ DOI’s also contain the id number.

Jessa Forte Netting
Senior Editor Online
AccessScience – McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology