![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. ![]() The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal-all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. 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. Moderated by: Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Introduction by: Congresswoman Hilda Solis (CA – 32) *Invited*įeatured Author: Van Jones, founder and president, Green for All senior fellow, Center for American Progress author, The Green Collar Economy ![]()
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