I Stand with Van Jones
Sadly, the Obama administration appears to be wavering in its support of Jones. This is not acceptable.
Sadly, the Obama administration appears to be wavering in its support of Jones. This is not acceptable.
usatoday.com | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
With an increased interest in the environment and growth in the "green collar" job sector, colleges and universities are beginning to incorporate sust...
Phil Angelides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
America's new Apollo mission will spur domestic job growth, end our reliance on foreign energy sources, curb climate change, and position our nation to thrive in the 21st century.
Bob Giloth | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green
"Additionally, the Secretaries of Energy, Education, and Labor announced collaboration to make it a major priority to institutionalize cross-agency co...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN — Business leaders vowed Monday to help world governments set a price on carbon, establishing a market that governments can use to cu...
Ben Hecht | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green
Many cities seem to be missing the critical aspect of including low-income and under-served urban areas as part of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
We have a chance now to make pay equity real for women across the country. We can invest in a new, green economy that asserts the principles of pay equity from its very inception.
The Big Money | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
When he wasn't running his fix-poverty, fix-the-planet nonprofit in Oakland, he was seeding Obama's transition team with ideas for an all-encompassing...
Spotlight On Poverty | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green
The Middle Class Task Force, headed up by Vice President Joe Biden, has already had a lot of emphasis on green jobs, and Biden's chief economist isn't...
Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media
From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.
WhiteHouse.gov | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green
One of the questions that keeps coming up lately is this: What's a green job? What do they look like, where are they going to come from and who's goin...
Van Jones | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
We've brought to light real solutions to the economic and environmental problems facing the country so well that the White House itself wants to hear what we have to say -- and wants to make sure everyone else is listening, too.
Philadelphia Inquirer | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green
Joe Biden is kicking off his Middle Class Task Force work in Philadelphia today, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer: Vice President Joe Biden will be ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
President Obama just made a big step toward the green goals he set on the campaign trail, announcing a task force that would address an economic stimu...
Tim Shey | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
As someone who until recently was a resident of Washington for twelve years, it's fun watching D.C. have its biggest moment in a long time.
Van Jones | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
Solis is the right secretary of labor to take advantage of a great opportunity not only to make America's economy stronger by making it greener, but also to make Americans living in poverty part of a revitalized middle class.
Treehugger.com | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
According to a report whose title says it all: Market Overview: A Slowing Economy Won't Slow Down Corporate Green IT Initiatives. As we've seen just ...
ABC News | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green
To secure its future, Toledo, once known as the Glass City, embraced its past; Toledo is where glass was first mass-produced for bottles, buildings, a...
Grist | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
Several big environmental groups have issued statements praising Barack Obama's nomination of Bill Richardson today to serve as secretary of commerce....
Josh Nelson | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
All signals point to Obama investing heavily in green collar jobs. The labor force and manufacturing capacity of GM provides a perfect springboard for a national green jobs initiative.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
The plan covers a range of issues that merit prompt presidential attention, but it underscores the immediate need to solve the entwined economic, climate, and environmental crises.
Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
Many political observers (most recently my colleague David Carr) have written about the Obama youth machine -- and how, with the election over, the pr...
Anastasia Kousakis | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
What if there were a way to save the Earth and strengthen the economy at the same time?
GOOD | Ben Jervey | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green
Most blue- and white- collar jobs won't suddenly morph into "green-collar" ones. Many will be entirely new occupations--say, a wind turbine technician...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick and Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
Environmental activist Van Jones' new book "The Green Collar Economy" debuted at number 12 on the New York Times best sellers list this week. The book...
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green