It's terrific to see the first of the DOE loan guarantees being awarded, to Solyndra it turns out.  Good acceleration by the DOE to get that kind of industry support underway, and the first of a lot more to come. With a big influx of government support coming into the industry, there will be new project-related jobs as well.  In these economic times, that will be welcome news to many readers, I'm sure. I've already written a few words of guidance in the past, once last year, and once a few years back. In terms of places to look for the jobs, besides the generic job boards out there, a few green collar job sites have sprung up that are worth checking out:

• Clean Edge's job board, which has been done in partnership with Hobbs & Towne.

• CleanTechies.com

• Renewable Energy Jobs

• Clean Tech Recruits

• There's also a new jobs tab on the Renewable Energy Business Network's LinkedIn discussion board.

There are others out there as well -- cleantech recruiters and executive search firms are encouraged to add their sites as comments to this column. Other news and notes:  My latest Mass High Tech column, on the need to promote industrial demand response as a stimulus priority...  Steven Chu agrees with me that energy efficiency is sexy...  Andrew Friendly of ATV also writes in MHT about the stimulus and cleantech...  A perfect storm for water?...  NEA's Scott Sandell has provocative thoughts on whether or not cleantech is "dead"...  And finally, at least there's one new LP putting money into cleantech -- ATP.