false 4163063 2 <p>Provocative, personal, and inspirational, <i>The Green Collar Economy</i> is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country—the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.</p> <p>In <i>The Green Collar Economy</i>, 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. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book <i>Silent Spring</i> was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now, rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's <i>The Green Collar Economy</i> delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. </p> 4210345 1 10 2008 The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems total:181|5:50|4:63|3:52|2:13|1:3| 181 687 578 60 5 1 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 09:38:47 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 09:49:58 -0700 2009 A Dynamic Duo for Changing the World

A Review of 'Green Collar Economy:

How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems'
By Van Jones, Harper-Collins, 2008

By Carl Davidson

SolidarityEconomy.Net

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I would recommend it to lots of academics however who sometimes forget to make the connection between revolutionary ideals a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 21:20:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 11:52:11 -0800 2008 greenforall.org) Jones sa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 22:04:35 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 22:04:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:01:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 10:06:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:15:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 09:37:21 -0700 2009 Another book I read because it was one of the titles the committee I'm on is considering to be our "One Campus, One Book" title, I found the book an easy read that made some great points. I really would like to see us put our resources into a greener economy-in my mind an "Gree...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 14:32:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:18:12 -0700 2009
By Bill McKibben

Van Jones is, beyond any doubt, one of the rising stars of the American environmental movement and the American civil rights movement. He’s fused the two of them in a new way, and in so doing constructed a power...more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 06 16:04:50 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 14 22:24:52 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Oct 22 05:49:27 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 12:34:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 15 07:26:57 -0700 2008 Tue May 26 20:40:50 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:08:44 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:17:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 13:15:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 13:19:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun May 24 16:53:22 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 16:56:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:41:19 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:46:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 14:40:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 14:42:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:57:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 11:41:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 06:40:36 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 06:40:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4163063