The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Van Jones and his team are both factual and inspirational. Green Jobs and the focus on training and education, keeping jobs local (not outsourced), and giving individuals dignity while working on the most important concern of the humans -- to stick around! -- brings us to a point of hard work but also a point of hope.

I encourage everyone to read this book and the many others being penned lately that link several of our ailments -- most pointedly demonstrated by the mistakes and errors in the financial sector -- that we are simply not living right. We are living not in our own time. We are not valuing what we should given the times we live in. There are purposes beyond acquiring things -- Jones and his team help us to keep remembering that it could really be fun to be here, after all.

I'm sorry to say this book is very racial in nature. Van Jones considers me an enviromental elitist. I'm not a black convict, so I'm not needed to re-invent our economy. I was really hoping to learn something, as I am intensely interested in working in the alternative energy field.

Excellent writing and offer of a logical solution, how come this isn't on Oprah's list?

Great book presenting a number of important ideas on how the private sector, government and the citizens need to work together to create a clean, green economy that is inclusive. Especially like the break down of the Green New Deal to mobilize the nation, get people back to work and address the climate crisis.

The Green collar economy is very well thought out and easy to read. The author lays out a plan to reduce the use of fossil fuels, reduce the amount of Green house gasses, and create new jobs in the United States. The book delves into the use of fossil fuels, what it takes to get it out of the ground and refine it, the cost to the atmosphere due to this process. Eventually the world will dry up of fossil fuels, were dealing with a limited supply at a time when much of the world is learning to drive. The book talks about places like India and China the bicycle is being replaced with the automobile and the economic effect that has on the price of gas world wide. Consumer demand is now out stripping the supply of oil. Oil prices are rising due to world demand. The book does a great job of covering the economic effect of this and what it will lead to if we don't start really developing alternative energy resources and making Green technology available and affordable. There are many untapped resources out there for creating Green jobs and a cleaner environment.

The book also talks about some other types of energy resources and the pros and cons of them like converting corn to fuel. Should we be burning corn as fuel when children are starving? Nuclear power again this is a limited resource since there is a limited supply of uranium. Clean coal, just an oxymoron. The process for clean coal doesn't exist; it's still the dirtiest of all fuels when you take into account the process for mining and burning coal. There is also a limited supply of coal.

We are spiraling downward towards an energy nightmare; the book proposes some interesting and plausible ways to avoid this. The concept is great it the process of helping these ideas come to fruition that will require a lot of work. People will need to change their thought process when it comes to producing energy. Making these ideas happen will require a lot more detail with in the then what this book goes into but it plants the seed to get the process started. The book lays out the mechanics of what it will take to make the Green collar idea turn into a Green collar reality. It's up to us as citizens of the planet to make it happen. The back of the book has a resource list of containing Green energy businesses and coalitions.

There are many types of Green collar jobs that could be created not only in the Green industry but within the normal work place. Jobs will be created in research, development and implementation of these technologies.

A great read for anyone but especially for those Green collar and want to be Green collar workers. Very enlightening.