Monday, April 9, 2012
Van Jones’ New Book Shows Environmental Protection and Prosperity Go Hand-in-HandPolluting industries like to say that making the air safer to breathe and the water safer to drink is a threat to economic growth. But in his new book, Van Jones confirms once again how false the old “jobs versus the environment” argument is. Instead, we can create jobs FOR the environment. “We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job,” Jones writes in Rebuild the Dream. Solar panels don’t put themselves up. Wind turbines don’t manufacture themselves. Houses don’t retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors…Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity. Read more. Photo: Van Jones by Center for American Progress Action Fund

Van Jones’ New Book Shows Environmental Protection and Prosperity Go Hand-in-Hand
Polluting industries like to say that making the air safer to breathe and the water safer to drink is a threat to economic growth. But in his new book, Van Jones confirms once again how false the old “jobs versus the environment” argument is. Instead, we can create jobs FOR the environment.

“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job,” Jones writes in Rebuild the Dream.

Solar panels don’t put themselves up. Wind turbines don’t manufacture themselves. Houses don’t retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors…Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Read more.

Photo: Van Jones by Center for American Progress Action Fund

Posted at 5:43 PM 49 notes Tags: nrdc van jones jobs green jobs economy renewable energy environment

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    *coughcough*environmental engineering* oh what my major? hmm well would ya look at that! ;)
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    It’s sad to say, but until something huge happens to take the energy industries out of politics, this is all just false...
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