Green Jobs Now
Van Jones is a modern day environmental hero. Not just concerned with global warming and green living, Mr. Jones has become a crusader in the quest to help everyone not only embrace environmental sustainability but benefit from it. His wonderful Green For All initiative is the embodiment of his vision.
Building upon a proven track record of success, Van Jones has expanded his laudable focus to include politics and the need for a revolution in every industrialized nation which moves us away from old solutions and embraces what is clean and green. To wit, at the end of this month, the Green Jobs Now project will hold community events in every corner of the United States in order to motivate people to engage in the political process and to persuade political candidates to add green jobs as a plank of their platform.
Here at Keyboard Culture, I have resisted the temptation to inject politics into my prose and by commending the Green Jobs Now project to your attention, I am comfortable that I continue to strike the right balance. My reasoning is simple: the real reforms which we need in order to combat global warming adequately will not be achieved without new government policies.
To be clear, this is not a call for you to vote for one candidate or another. Instead, it is a call to become involved in the political process or, if you already are involved, to press your favorite candidate to take a bold position in favor of green jobs. Details on the September 27 Green Jobs Now day of action are available at
GreenJobsNow.com
Fomenting the Triple Bottom Line
Corbett Kroehler
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