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Books : The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.79
EAN: 9780061650758
ISBN: 0061650757
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Studio: HarperOne
Sales Rank: 2200
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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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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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It is a excellent book, well-written and stimulating the thinking... I would very highly recommend it!
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Thanks to Van Jones summary of what has been (very briefly) and what can become, a conceptual blue print has been presented to the reader. Lots of in-between steps to be developed and even yet to be envisioned. However, a good starting point to get organized and participate. No one person has all the answers or can provide all the inspirations, but I think he has got off to a very strong start already.
I am excited to learn more about the possibilities and witness that after the past eight ... Read More
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.79
EAN: 9780061650758
ISBN: 0061650757
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Studio: HarperOne
Sales Rank: 2200
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