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April 2009 
Featured Book: The Green Collar Economy
Posted on Apr 8th, 2009
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This week's featured book is 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 are the two looming crises facing the United States today. 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 un-renewable 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.
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.
Browse inside for Free: http://harpercollins.com/books/9780061650758/The_Green_Collar_Economy/index.aspx
A Quote from Van Jones:
“When many people hear the term ‘green’ today, they still automatically think the message is probably for a fancy, eco-elite set-and not for themselves. And as long as that remains true, the green movement will remain too anemic politically and too alien culturally to rescue the country.” Van Jones
Jones is starting to become a pretty big deal and really starting to make a difference. Check it out.
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 are the two looming crises facing the United States today. 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 un-renewable 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.
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.
Browse inside for Free: http://harpercollins.com/books/9780061650758/The_Green_Collar_Economy/index.aspx
A Quote from Van Jones:
“When many people hear the term ‘green’ today, they still automatically think the message is probably for a fancy, eco-elite set-and not for themselves. And as long as that remains true, the green movement will remain too anemic politically and too alien culturally to rescue the country.” Van Jones
Jones is starting to become a pretty big deal and really starting to make a difference. Check it out.
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