The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/02/Van_Jones_The_Green_New_Deal

Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy, highlights specific ways to create jobs for Americans while also making moves to help green the planet.

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Van Jones thinks "green collar" jobs could clean the United State's energy-dependent economy.

His path to a healthy green economy includes his work on the Green Jobs Act of 2007, which authorized $125 million to train people for green-collar jobs. - The Commonwealth Club of California

Van Jones is the founder and president Green For All, based in Oakland, California. The mission is to help build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Jones is an advocate, championing "green-collar jobs and opportunities" for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming.

Jones has worked to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Under the slogan "green-collar jobs, not jails," he is calling for green economic development in urban America.

Jones is the author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.

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[ScottBrown666]

Why can't he be a communist? We live in a "free country" don't we?

And as for racist... I bet you're wrong. Most black people have a general mistrust of white people, but I wouldn't call that racism. Maybe there's even a reason for it...

Now I ask YOU, why can't you have rational public discourse without resorting to ad hominem attacks? Does your brain have trouble thinking?

[mmsayre]

When wind energy becomes competitive, there will be no need for govt encouragement for companies to buy them.

This actually happened for a time when oil prices spiked. Giant fields of wind turbines were erected in the plains. The govt shouldn't be in the business of putting in 15 billion dollar purchase orders in for power generation. Leave that to power companies which will, and to some degree have, switched to wind because it is a superior investment, not because a bureaucrat forced them.

[undeadpresident]

@DORSEY12100 it's the most useful plant on the planet.....plus the USA could market it world wide since we have such a strong agricultural base.

[DORSEY12100]

@undeadpresident

well maybe not for me,but you got a point there, compared to this crap ...

[undeadpresident]

@DORSEY12100 the green we should be producing is cannabis.

[DORSEY12100]

wonder what happened ? all the money wasted thrown at green companies ,almost all belly up and bankrupt ,What happened ,this moron has no clue ,just an appointed czar with no intellect what so ever .Global warming ? maybe one degree higher in 100 years ? PURE CRAP but a billion dollar scam ,while we sit on our natural resources and lay down to environmentalist and fall down to stupidity

[NoSocialistLeech]

Van Jones is a Marxist thug. Google STORM manifesto for a real eye opener. Google Elena Kagan's 1981 Princeton thesis and things will begin to come into focus. The foolish liberal children have elected a Marxist agitator for President.

[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

[proatheism]

@TheModelification

Mind actually doing research on him first. The cooling trends from his data have been explained.

"Part of the cooling trend seen by the satellites can be attributed to several years of cooler than normal temperatures and cooling caused by the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano."

climatescience.gov/Library/sap­/sap1-1/finalreport/sap1-1-fin­al-execsum.pdf