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Posted by Staci Matlock on January 5, 2009 at 12:51pm in Using The Green Line; Help for new members View Discussions
Hi Green Liners:
If you do nothing else today - READ THIS. It's an excellent piece by Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker profiling Van Jones, founder of Green for All. It's a look at one of the most intractable problems for the green movement - how to bring into the fold not just the educated, white collar, tree huggers, etc., but poor people, blue collar workers, less educated citizens. It looks at how Jones, an advocate for the poor, becomes friends and fellow speaker with Julia Butterfly Hill, the champion of redwood forests.
Jones has one suggestion for how to take the next step in the enviro movement- make sure all the talk about money for economic growth and "green jobs" makes it to the people who most need the training and jobs. Take a look and weigh in.
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Permalink Reply by billp37 on January 6, 2009 at 6:50pm
Ms Matlock
Corp/gov wants us to conserve energy and water so that the new construction business can continue.Look around you. Especially to the west and south to Los Lunas. The new residential construction.
Solar may be the next Eclipse for the reason of lack of HEAT RATE BTUs..Let's hope not but keep up the dialog on you blog
Permalink Reply by Staci Matlock on January 12, 2009 at 5:48pm
Hi bill, I'll check it out. Don't know what heat rate BTUs are, but I bet you are about to educate all of us.
The more we understand, perhaps the better choices we'll make.
Permalink Reply by ErnestO Stolpe on January 11, 2009 at 5:10am
Staci:
The New Yorker article did a great justice to the work of Van Jones. The more "Fern Fondlers" that can formulate their stories for poor people, blue collar workers and less educated citizens the faster GREEN JOBS will become the domain of the people who most need the training an jobs.
I especially love the statement by Van Jones ""It's not that we have a President who's black; it's that for the first time we have a President who's green".Ernest
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