1.0 link 66217 <![CDATA[The Black Al Gore?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-gunther/the-black-al-gore_b_66217.html Why is the green movement so white? "It used to be the more committed you 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 to marry the issue of economic justice with the opportunities created by green technology. "We've got to start talking the language of work, wealth...

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