Van Jones’s Posts

• What you can do

  A message from Van Jones 16

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

  My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so.

• After platinum parachutes, a green lifeline

  It's time to build the green-collar economy 2

  Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

  This post originally ran on Wonk Room.

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  At best, the federal government's bail out of Wall Street will help the U.S. economy -- which is already in a ditch -- avoid a total meltdown. Fine. Now we need a plan to jumpstart the economy and actually get America moving again.

  In my new book, The Green Collar Economy, I propose a bold, green cure for the economic mess we are in. Think of it as a comprehensive plan to bail out ordinary people -- and the planet, too.

  We… Read More

• A dream reborn

  Forty years gone: MLK's dream today would be colored green 5

  Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

  The following are my introductory remarks to the Dream Reborn conference, beginning today and running through the weekend in Memphis, Tenn.

  Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1968, a sniper assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King had come to Memphis, Tennessee, to aid striking sanitation workers. The preeminent civil rights leader of his time, he was only 39 years old.

  Four decades have passed since that fateful day. As of this month, Dr. King has been gone from us longer than he was ever here. As we… Read More

• Memo to candidates

  Green-collar jobs mean standing up for people and the planet 3

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  For those of us who are a part of the movement for "green-collar jobs," last Sunday's Democratic presidential debate was a real watershed moment.

  

  Van Jones.

  Clinton, Edwards, and Obama were in the debate of their lives. And all three of them passionately championed the importance of creating good jobs in the clean energy sector. They presented "green-collar jobs" as a way to simultaneously boost the economy and beat global warming.

  Their words were like music… Read More

• Green Jobs Act of 2007

  Pelosi's plan to save the polar bears -- and poor kids, too ... 45

  Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

  There has been a lot of discussion about the energy package that is set to pass the U.S. House this week. But the media so far has missed one of the most interesting and innovative proposals that will be voted on: the Green Jobs Act of 2007. This ground-breaking legislation will make $120 million a year available across the country to begin training workers (and would-be workers) for jobs in the clean-energy sector. When the bill becomes law, 35,000 people a year will benefit from cutting-edge, vocational education in fields that could literally save the Earth.

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