Earth Day 2010 – New Interview with Van Jones
It’s Earth Day 2010, and Van Jones has a new interview on Climate Progress about Earth Day 2.0.
Check it out, right after you Take Action for a Cleaner Future by Contacting Congress Now!
It’s Earth Day 2010, and Van Jones has a new interview on Climate Progress about Earth Day 2.0.
Check it out, right after you Take Action for a Cleaner Future by Contacting Congress Now!
I just got home from the Take Back the American Dream Conference, and I have been pondering the role of meta-brands as vehicles of change for our movement, but specifically for young people and people of color. I have been thinking about the examples laid out by Van at the conference, assessing our conversation about [...]
In 2008, Time Magazine named Van Jones one of its “Heroes of the Environment” for his work as a climate activist dedicated to the creation of an inclusive green economy. In March of 2009, Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama to be Special Adviser for Green Jobs, a new position to develop environmentally-conscious industry [...]
Today, I listened in on a live web chat that was broadcast in the White House with the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) Administrator Lisa Jackson, who discussed measures to reduce Toxic air pollutions from power plants. Administrator Jackson and The EPA are proposing standards to limit mercury, acid gas, and other toxic pollution from power [...]
Originally posted at Nytimes.com I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition [...]
