Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. We must build new economic sectors and nothing offers as much promise as do those of green manufacturing and renewable energy.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 4, 2009. 640,329 jobs were created or saved. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it.
Don Hazen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 9, 2009. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Jones' successor at Green for All, took the issue head on yesterday at the Tides Foundation Momentum Conference.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. September 8, 2009. The job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood -- and what they want to do is no joke.
Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Politics. August 28, 2009. West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. July 20, 2009. If we want a greener world and green jobs for our citizens, we have to ditch the 'free-trade' ideal -- markets on their own won't do it.
Amy R. Ramos, Miller-McCune.com. July 17, 2009. Stagnant wages, sexual harassment, worsening benefits, horrible treatment: just a few of the problems faced by American workers in all industries.
Staff, Campaign for an Energy-Efficient America AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2009. "The Senate must recognize that energy efficiency is the fastest, cheapest and cleanest way to meet our growing energy needs."
Christopher Weber, In These Times. March 25, 2009. And will these jobs be as plentiful -- and as worker-friendly -- as the new administration would have us believe?
Kevin Danaher, Alisa Gravitz, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. Let's use this chance to create an economy that links social justice, environmental restoration, and financial sustainability.
Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine. March 16, 2009. Jones talks about what his new appointment in the Obama administration means and what he hopes to accomplish working from the inside.
Environment News ServiceMarch 11, 2009. He will be key in shaping the administration's energy and climate initiatives with a specific interest in vulnerable communities.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Video. February 28, 2009. Obama has cast himself "a populist crusader willing to do battle with special interests to expand health care, curb pollution and improve education."
Van Jones, Huffington Post. February 18, 2009. The 'green' money in the stimulus package is a down payment on a clean, green economy that will serve both the people and the planet.
Ariane Conrad, The Rumpus. February 5, 2009. The tanking economy is also changing the environmental movement. Van Jones talks about what we should be doing next.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. January 31, 2009. President Obama's call for "green jobs" has created both general confusion and competing interpretations of the term.
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. December 26, 2008. We need a healthcare bubble, an infrastructure bubble and a green bubble right now -- or else the whole thing will pop.
Van Jones, Huffington Post. December 19, 2008. Appointing Solis, Obama has made clear his commitment to creating green jobs to lift the nation out of its current economic crisis.
AlterNetDecember 17, 2008. Here's two short videos from Van Jones that explain how green collar jobs work and why they are so vitally important for an inclusive America.