Green energy is still not very widely available from official government outlets – the best you can do right now is to sign up for green power with your local utility, but that’s about it. Colorado is planning on changing that soon though – a state representative from Boulder made a statement announcing plans to introduce a bill legalizing “solar gardens”.

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Though alternative energy can provide jobs across many sectors in the United States economy, formulation of a policy in this regard may take many years to develop.

State laws on “green” power and regional cap-and-trade schemes on greenhouse-gas have been instrumental in impelling local economies to start converting from plants based on fossil fuel to green jobs, US governors told Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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