Jones, Van

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The green-collar economy

The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. The author 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.

Rebuild the dream

2012
Former special advisor to President Obama, Van Jones writes about his experiences in the White House and offers a critique of where the Obama Campaign "hope bubble" went wrong. Examines Jones's new organization--Rebuild the Dream--and its goals of making the 99% and the 1% more equal and given the same opportunities by law as everyone else.

The green-collar economy

how one solution can fix our two biggest problems
2008
Argues that the current economic crisis is a result of an economy based on oil, natural gas, and coal--all nonrenewable resources--and explains how the economy can be bolstered by focusing on building an environmentally friendly economy.
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