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The new environmentalists wear hard hats - Interview with Van Jones on 'Earth Day 2.0'

April 22, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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“It’s going to be a different kind of environmentalism. Sleeves rolled up, hard hat, lunch bucket, that’s going to become the image of the environmentalist rather than just our beloved tree huggers.” A lot has changed in the past 40 years, and so we asked CAP Senior Fellow Van Jones what he thinks about Earth Day this year and... [read more]

A message from Van Jones: What you can do

September 17, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The agenda of the people who smeared Van Jones is a matter of public record — see Fox News blurts out its agenda: “Now that Jones has resigned, we need to follow through…. First, stop cap-and-trade, which could send these groups trillions,” and then put “the whole corrupt ‘green jobs’ concept outside the bounds of the political... [read more]

The smearing of Van Jones

September 8, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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The first time I heard about the conservative, red-baiting crusade against Van Jones, I thought, this is ridiculous, even funny. “Will a ‘red’ help blacks go green? White House appoints ‘radical communist’ who sees environment as racial issue,” was the headline on an influential far-right website known as World Net Daily. What is this,... [read more]

Van Jones resigns

September 6, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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[I'd be happy to forward to Van Jones any comments or words of support people have for him on this painful day.] “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.” “I have been inundated with... [read more]

Van Jones resigns from his post as White House adviser

September 6, 2009 by ChrisSchultz
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Van Jones, founder of Green for All and the leading voice of the green jobs movement, has stepped down from his post as White House environmental adviser. Jones was seen as the President's "Green Jobs Czar" and his views on the environmental movement, his past as a political activist, and the partisan attacks (a while back he was taped... [read more]

We can solve the climate crisis

June 28, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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I learned two things last week about Sunil Paul, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist with a passion for clean tech. One is that he thinks big. The other is that he is very well-connected in Washington. Paul came to D.C. to release a report called the Gigaton Throwdown that, in his words, “redefines what’s possible for clean energy by... [read more]

Green jobs update of the day

March 10, 2009 by John Whitehead
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From Environmental Capital (Van Jones ...):Van Jones will join the Obama administration, but not as any sort of czar.The green jobs promoter will join the White House Council on Environmental Quality, his current outfit said today, as a “special adviser for green jobs.” ...... Since the campaign, President Obama has touted the job-... [read more]

Green Jobs

March 7, 2009 by Robert Stavins
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The January 12, 2009 issue of The New Yorker includes a well-written and in some ways inspiring article by Elizabeth Kolbert, profiling Van Jones, founder and president of Green for All.  In the article, “Greening the Ghetto:  Can a Remedy Serve for Both Global Warming and Poverty,” Kolbert includes the following passage:... [read more]

Big Ideas at the Aspen Institute Environment Forum

April 4, 2008 by JoshDorfman
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Last week I was in Aspen to present and participate in the Aspen Institute Environment Forum. Lots of really bright minds in attendance. Two of my favorites are Van Jones and Majora Carter who spoke eloquently about Green For All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out... [read more]

Green for All & Van Jones coming to D.C.

October 17, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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Last month at the Clinton Global Initiative (covered by Climate Progress), Van Jones, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, California, announced the initiative Green for All. The goal of the initative is to secure “job training for 250,000 workers from urban communities for the emerging green job market.”Today Van... [read more]

The black Al Gore?

September 27, 2007 by Marc Gunther
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Why is the green movement so white? “It used to be the more committed your were to the environment, the further away you were from regular people,” Van Jones tells me. “It was tofu and Birkenstocks and all that.”Jones, a 39-year-old African-American civil rights activist with an impressive track record, intends to change that. He wants... [read more]