Green Jobs Revolution

Van Jones begins this video with the statement that, "we need a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty."

This is from the Everything's Cool Activist DVD. For more information on the film and campaign, go to http://www.everythingscool.org

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[bryce2197]

If you've never seen one I urge you to find one. Go find an old propaganda film of some totalitarian government and watch how they portray great civil projects that are rebuilding their countries economy and providing for the people through the brillance of their govt programs. You won't notice any difference between those videos and this one. They are always lies, always underseving, always GIANT FAILURES! Smile for camera comrade and say "for the people", or your wife and children die!

[Pomiferous]

@newalm It's to bad Uncle Sam is going broke.He was a favorite sugar daddy untill the funds dried up.

[newalm]

@Pomiferous A $500,000 freebee, courtesy of Uncle Sam!

[Pomiferous]

@newalm Another round of stimulis anyone?

[newalm]

Green jobs are tanking!  Just look at that solar company in Fremont in California....bankrupt and being investigated the FBI!

[Roacheater]

Take your green jobs and shove em up your ASS!

[hookalakah]

"SolFocus assembles its solar panels in China, and the new San Jose headquarters employs just 90 people.

In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream." --New York Times

[CAJUNNSC]

Know this, that your power provider is most likely not going to give up market share. Thus you must demand they offer you alternatives at reasonable return rates. Net metering should allow you to sell the power you produce for what you are charged for it. And there should be no contract or time limits or restrictions on how much you can produce or how much they are required to purchase. You can't tell them how much you are willing to pay so they should not be able to tell you either. KWH = KWH.

[CAJUNNSC]

Do any of you need to understand how your phone works or how electricity works. Of coarse not! understanding it isn't important. What is is that you all know we do not have a choice. Unless you plan on continuing to watch companies close, people be laid off and children be left homeless, you better see the future now and not later. Demand local grown foods, locally owned business, products manufactured in the US and alternative energy options at fair market value within the reach of everyone. 

[CAJUNNSC]

Most of the money being spent is being wasted and mismanaged. Naming education as the answer. I disagree. No one questioned how expensive it would be to run power lines to millions of homes or how expensive it would be to run phone lines around the country. But they were run and they did what they were supposed to do accordingly. We are now facing different problems in a very different world and we must see it for what it is. The cost of not doing it will be triple and cost us all much more !