Van Jones at Green for All conference in D.C.- you’ve gotta see this!
February 19, 2009
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President Obama in my hometown! The foreclosure crisis here and dreams of a green future…
February 18, 2009
Today Obama visited my hometown in Phoenix, AZ to unveil his mortgage foreclosure plan. He couldn’t have picked a better location! Right here in the downtown Phoenix historic neighborhood I grew up in, we are deep in the foreclosure crisis. My neighborhood was a poor Mexican-American neighborhood during my childhood, and until [...]
New blog for a new economy!
February 12, 2009
It is also my small contribution to the central challenge and highest calling of our time– one every bit as challenging and critical as the great democratic movements of recent centuries like Women’s Suffrage, Abolitionism, the Civil Rights movement, and Environmental Conservation– turning the world’s governments, economies, businesses, and homes green. As Van Jones writes in his ground-breaking book, The Green Collar Economy (2008), “To create a pathway to a livable future, a mobilized U.S. citizenry will have to march into the halls of power and rewrite the rules– at every level of government.”
