Van Jones lands at Princeton
Anthony (Van) Jones, who resigned as an environmental policy adviser to the Obama administration after coming under fire from conservatives for past statements and political activities, has been named as a visiting fellow at Princeton University for the coming academic year. A statement being released by the university today says that Mr. Jones will be a distinguished visiting fellow at both its Center for African American Studies and its Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, and that he will teach a course on race, ecology, and the environment during the spring 2011 semester. Mr. Jones, a 1993 graduate of Yale Law School and co-founder of three advocacy organizations, served as a special adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality from March to September of 2009. He left the position after being attacked for publicly using a crude insult in reference to Republicans, signing a petition that questioned whether the Bush administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and having past connections to a radical Bay Area group with Marxist origins.
good for him!!!
He is a total rock star. Even though the whole Green jobs idea is kind of like fighting a tsumani with a feather duster, it is a good idea. I hope that Mr. Jones becomes even more influential in academia and can convert all of these professors and scholarly rasearcher and think tankers that we need a wholesale systemic change to deal with the mammoth ecological and economic problems today. I think it will take something more along the lines of Riane Eisler, who wrote the Real Wealth of Nations. http://rianeeisler.com/