A main mission of E Green Group is to merge the green movement with the race equity movement through the building of "green collar jobs."
Van Jones is the author of an inspiring book called "the Green Collar Economy" that explains why merging these issues is so important. So what is a "green collar job?" From a book review on
treehugger.com:
"Jones defines a green-collar job as a 'family-supporting, career-track
job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental
quality," but is also part of what he calls the "one solution
[to] fix our two biggest problems" — namely, poverty and our
environmental crisis. You may ask: what does environmentalism have to do
with alleviating poverty? According to Jones, it has everything to do
with it — and his simple premise has a populist but pragmatic ring to
it. By directly engaging working-class, low-income and urban communities
in the retrofitting, weatherizing and solarizing of America, not only
will they benefit from hundreds of thousands of non-exportable jobs in
the emerging green economy, but they will also represent the pivotal
force sorely needed to turn America's environmental tide."
This book is great read if you are interested in environmental change and the social change we need to get there! For more info about Van Jones
see his website here.
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| Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy" |
