Van Jones: Why Should Companies Get to Pollute for Free?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/29/Van_Jones_Inforums_21st_Century_Visionary_Award

Environmentalist Van Jones calls for a "serious" climate and energy bill to stop companies from dumping "planet-cooking pollution" into the atmosphere. "If you take away that right to pollute for free," says Jones, "you send a signal to the only force in the world that can solve this problem - the entrepreneur."

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Van Jones broke new ground with his proposal for a green-collar economy, stating that "the time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism." He fights for environmental justice and to create an economy that is both sustainable and that lifts up the poorest communities through green-collar jobs.

Jones describes how the third wave of environmentalism -- the investment wave -- could solve inequality and catastrophe with a "Green New Deal" mindset. The Commonwealth Club awards Van Jones a 21st Century Visionary Award for guiding the nation to ecological equality. - Commonwealth Club of California

Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. Jones is a co-founder of three successful non-profit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All. He is the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs: The Green-Collar Economy. He served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.

Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress. Additionally, he is a senior policy advisor at Green For All.

Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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@cassidy99ful

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If you're talking about Allen West, absolutely! <3

[cassidy99ful]

@Twilightifyable the guy has my vote.

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John R. Christy has been accused of recanting his position that climate change is neither Anthropogenic nor Catastrophic, but he didn’t. He used two independent data sets, weather balloon and satellite. (see links in my about me) Later he only stated that there was some anthropogenic impact that could not be predicted 100 years out, but that what we’re doing was good for the plants.

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2/2 watch?v=bgKr480RYc4 Obama's Former Green Jobs Czar and Communist, Van Jones

Admits Left is 'PRETENDING' Need for Regulations in Green Movement

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1 /2 Obama stop offshore drilling until it was reinstated. This could cause a $5 a gallon increase, because we would grow dependent upon foreign nations we are not allies with in order to provide our oil. Cap and Trade (American Power Act) would increase gas prices increase by $2.58 a gallon according to George C. Marshall Institute& taxes on the average household up to $3200 according to the RNC Foreign countries price gouge w/ gas prices to $10/gal!.

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Allen West 2012

[UninsaneRocker]

This guy is so full of shit.

[riverlioness]

Doesn't this guy have perfect timing? He is proposing this in an insecure economy. We need greater restrictions for slower economic recovery.

[isawanangel2]

not if you're gonna do it van, no one takes you seriously, here i've been worried about bretton woods 3, and a six fold increase in earthquakes, get this guy outta here, gimme someone like roubini i cant even take this guy seriously i dont want to hear the whining we all know, show me the numbers or shut the fuck up you radical and spare me the guilt trip we all know okay stop apologizing!

[lorezapocalypse]

I don't know what good he was doing in the administration, but it is unfortunate he got slimmed by the media.

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