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Where's the Love?

Why won’t Lisa Jackson/Nancy Sutley visit a mountaintop removal site? 0
Posted 3 days, 7 hours ago
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 2 0
Posted 2 weeks ago The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), by an 11-1 vote. Earlier this week, we outlined six benefits of the bill and explained why the bill should be passed by the committee. Here are nine more benefits as the legislation moves forward.
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 1 2
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago While the obstructionists attempt to block progress, they will also stop many provisions that would benefit Americans. Daniel J. Weiss lists a number of important benefits that government and academic analyses determined about ACES that also apply to the CEJAPA.
How the green economy can help low income women 0
Posted 4 weeks ago By Judy Patrick, Shelley A. Davis With the emergence of a green jobs sector, America has the opportunity to advance women's economic security in a bigger and better way than ever before, providing low-income women with a rare chance to get in on the ground floor of a growth industry and learn the skills to compete for stable, higher-paying jobs.
Stripping for a cause

Weatherization will save us all 6
Posted 1 month ago Despite its terrible name, Joe Biden's Middle Class Task Force has some solid ideas on saving energy and money. Find out what innovations are coming to your neighborhood.
Young, Green, and Out of Work 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Placemakers

Stockton Williams on urban retrofits, Obama, and the sexiness of caulking guns 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago What do you call a consortium of global foundations and banks intent on using energy retrofits to create jobs for low-income people? You could call it dreamy -- or you could call it Living Cities. We talk with the group's green-economy expert.
The clean-energy investment agenda 6
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago The United States is having the wrong public debate about global warming.
Make way, wonks -- the rest of us are coming to the table

Climate change is a poverty issue 20
Posted 2 months ago
Why does an anti-poverty activist care about carbon emissions? Because climate change is an economic-justice issue. Regardless of how our government ultimately decides to handle climate change policy, poor people will be affected. They can be included in the new clean energy economy or they can be further pushed out in the cold.
What you can do

A message from Van Jones 16
Posted 2 months 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.
Baby, you can make my car

Obama talks green to GM workers 0
Posted 2 months ago
President Barack Obama put a green spin on Tuesday’s address to autoworkers at the GM assembly plant in Warren, Ohio.
A big breakthrough on green jobs 8
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The New York State Senate and Assembly, too often a model of corruption and dysfunctionality, rose above petty politics last week to pass forward-thinking legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.
The battle begins

On eve of Senate showdown and COP15, the climate movement locks in 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Aside from all the immense negatives, the recent Van Jones character assassination has done one very important thing for the climate movement.
close enough?

Joe Klein compares Van Jones to ‘white supremacist,’ ‘Nazi’ 14
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Joe Klein, the prominent Time Magazine liberal columnist, has embraced the right-wing assault on Van Jones, the White House green jobs advisor who resigned this weekend.
Thinking outside the office

5 reasons why Van Jones and progressives are better off with Jones out of the White House 4
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The end of Van Jones' brief career as a White House insider, in the semi-obscure position of special adviser for green jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality, is likely good for Van Jones.
Does Glenn Beck also like to wear tutus?

Honoring Van Jones by reaffirming who we are 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
J. Edgar Hoover came to mind this weekend with the announcement that Van Jones had resigned from Obama's White House. Viewed one way, this was a victory for Glenn Beck and his Fox News patrons, and it was right out of the Hoover playbook. But with reflection, we can find solace in history.
Sunday morning hot air

Talking about Van Jones 14
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The resignation of President Obama's green jobs adviser was touched on during several of the TV networks' Sunday morning political gabfests. Here are the relevant excerpts...
Green jobs adviser Van Jones resigns White House position 5
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
President Barack Obama's special adviser for green jobs has resigned under pressure from leading Republican politicians and revelations about his controversial past statements.
'Let's be one country'

Van Jones seeks a ‘healing for our politics’ 5
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
White House green jobs advisor Van Jones is under attack from Fox News as an “avowed radical revolutionary communist” and from ABC News as a “truther” with a “history of incendiary and provocative remarks.”
Is that Beck going to stain?

Cleaning some of the Fox off of Van Jones 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who's an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al Queda, and the Trilateral Commission. Everything that goes bump in Beck's closet at night.

Back then I still thought the Gomer Pyle meets Father Coughlin shtick was harmless, too clownish to be taken seriously. Ah, those innocent days before the nation was locked in a room with frantic teabaggers.