The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones of the Center for ...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy

In "The Green Collar Economy", Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.

Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.

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[TheHabit00]

van jones the communist! he should be sent to prison!

[wendydarling17241]

As full of wind as Obama himself. There are sea shells i my back yard-I live on the side of a mountain. I don't need to read some trumped up study to tell me that our planet is in the constant process of evolving -Nature's plan is bigger than what man can even pretend to imagine - and this guy is pretending to imagine, and probably for some sort of profit. I'll never understand the Al Gore phenomenon of having folks send him money to assuage their guilt. Are people really this stupid?

[Angellicationify]

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.

[Angellicationify]

2/2 Obama's Former Green Jobs Czar and Communist, Van Jones

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

watch?v=bgKr480RYc4

[Angellicationify]

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

[JimmyzToo]

Liberals love solving crises that don't exist, and if all else fails- they'll create a crisis.

[x3player]

lol hes not a communist. he could be a socialist. but in my views his far away from that in my country he would be right/blue and not left/red.

[GaunletofDestruction]

Van, you just won yourself two tickets to Fantasy Island!

[Alfrunk]

""On the eve of historic fights for healthcare and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," he wrote in his resignation letter to the White House. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."" WHAT?? This guy is damn near delusional! How in God's name is it a distortion to replay videos and recordings of things that this moron said? Informing people of his record is a smear campaign?? The left is so disgusting. Hurry up, 2010!

[teton99]

Green = Red.

Green is the new Red of Marxism that is. Designed to hinder new growth of Industry which in turn will hurt jobs. Also it is an pretense for raising taxes in order to "save the planet."  Est $1.50 -$2.00 tax on a gallon gas, you can thank the Environmentalist for that. Cap & Trade will be worse, taxing your millage & type of car you drive.

These A-Holes don't care about the Environment its just a pretext for power.