Author:Van Jones Binding: Hardcover Published: 2008-10-07 ISBN: 0061650757 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
"An Excellent First Draft Vision of What America Could Become"
"This Book Will Foster or Does Foster Some of Obama's Major Policies"
"The Green Collar Economy"
"A Concept That Must Be Put Into Action"
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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 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.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now, rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
An Excellent First Draft Vision of What America Could Become I just finished reading "The Green Collar Economy", and I can't ever recall reading a book that changed my way of thinking so dramatically. Van Jones' presents a well-written, excellent first draft vision of what America could and should do to revitalize its standing in the world community. And it matters not whether you believe that global warming is a serious threat to future generations or a cyclical phenomenon. If you are concerned about the current economic woes, you owe it to yourself to read this... more info
This Book Will Foster or Does Foster Some of Obama's Major Policies As pollution concerns evolve to become disasters waiting to happen, America and the remainder of the world must conceive of projects to prevent the bad from getting worse. But, Van Jones seeks to do more than stop the hemorrhaging - he seeks to merge the environmentalist concerns with other civil activist targets for the "new `social-uplift environmentalism': equal protection for all people, equal opportunity for all people, and reverence for all creation." His hard task seeks to do more: he seeks to... more info
The Green Collar Economy Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
This is the most important book I've read in the last 15 years! If I were any kind of authority, I would make every single American read the "Green Collar Economy."
So far, most book reviews that I've read do capture several of the most important messages and ideas presented in this comprehensive book, yet most of them fail to emphasize the many complexities discussed and re-examined in the Green Collar Economy. The good news is there is no secret anymore--the... more info
A Concept That Must Be Put Into Action I just finished reading this book tonight, and I have to admit that the author makes a very persuasive argument for the means to reverse the spiraling decline of the American economy. I would recommend this as a "must read" for not only every educator, political leader, activist, and businessperson but for every working class American (whether currently employed, unemployed, or incarcerated) who has heretofore not felt personally connected to the environmental movement. Buy this book, read this book, loan... more info
