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 [Act Green] The Green Collar Economy, by Van Jones: Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy 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.

[EarthFirst.com | Snarking Up Green Since 1883] Van Jones: A Green Bailout Would be Twice the Bang for Half the Bucks: Green For All and its partners are proposing a Clean Energy Corps that includes a revolving loan fund to finance the ambitious retrofitting of the nation’s building stock. An investment of less than $3 billion per year would provide financing and can be expected to create close to 120,000 green jobs a year and 600,000 over five years, while also lowering home heating and electricity bills for homeowners and small businesses.

[The Green Blog] Van Jones, "The Green Collar Economy": is an organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged. The group’s mission is to build “an inclusive, green economy - strong abundant to resolve the environmental crisis and lift millions of folks out of poverty.”

[Social Enterprise Reporter -] Van Jones' new book on the Green Collar Economy: Van Jones has authored a new book that you should read: The Green Collar Economy. It delivers real solutions that rescue our economy and save the environment.

[Gift Hub] The Green Collar Economy, by Van Jones: Fires, floods, foreclosures and now a massive Wall Street financial bailout are the latest signs that we are caught in twin crises: economic downturn and environmental devastation.

[Green Brooklyn] The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest ...: Thanks GBK…….The Greencorp video is terrific and shows a glimpse of the future……the book is a great lead…….it has already become a “must read”

 [It's Getting Hot In Here] The Green Collar Economy is coming: You’ve heard a lot about Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy lately. On Tuesday, the book reached #17 overall on Amazon, was the #2 bestselling nonfiction book, #2 conservation book, and the #1 book on economic conditions in the country ...

[Story of Stuff] The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest ...: The book is called: “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems” by Van Jones.

 [TreeHugger] Book Review: The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones: Van Jones is one busy man. Based in Oakland, CA, the civil rights and environmental activist has been working tirelessly for the last decade and a half - first as the co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, then Color of .

 [dangerousnegro Blog] Book Review: The Green Economy by Van Jones: By directly engaging working-class, low-income and urban communities in the retrofitting, weatherizing and solarizing of America, not only will they benefit from hundreds of thousands of non-exportable jobs in the emerging green economy, but they will also represent the pivotal force sorely needed to turn America’s environmental tide.

[Zoë's Paradise Blog] Revive the Economy with Green Jobs: Green jobs are local jobs -- they exist in every community and can't be outsourced. They're good for the environmentbecause they focus on clean, renewable sources of energy, which willhelp curb global warming and America's dependence on foreign oil.

[1Sky Blog Posts about everything] "The Green Collar Economy" by Van Jones--pre-order today!: 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.

 [the thought spot] The Green ”˜New Deal’: Real Change for a Sustainable Future: The Green New Deal Group, drawing inspiration from the tone of President Roosevelt’s comprehensive response to the Great Depression, propose a modernised version, a ”˜Green New Deal’ designed to power a renewables revolution, create thousands of green-collar jobs and rein in the distorting power of the finance sector while making more low-cost capital available for pressing priorities.

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