Green Collar Economy How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Name: Green Collar Economy How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
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ISBN: 9780061650758

ISBN-10: 0061650757

ISBN-13: 9780061650758

Edition: 2008

Authors: Van Jones, Ariane Conrad, Robert F. Kennedy

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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.In The Green Collar Economy, 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…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Van Jones is an award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. He is the best-selling author of the books The Green-Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream. He served as the green jobs advisor to President Obama's White House. Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress and a senior policy advisor at Green For All.



Foreword



Introduction: Reality Check



The Dual Crisis



The Fourth Quadrant



Eco-Equity



The Green New Deal



The Future Is Now



The Government Question



Buoyancy and Hope


Afterword: Winning Already-For Better or Worse


Action Items


Resource List


Notes


Acknowledgments