Senior Sequence

The Green Collar Economy

Van Jones is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. Green for All's mission is to build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to resolve the ecological crisis and lift millions of people out of poverty. A 1993 Yale Law graduate and co-founded of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Van is a tireless advocate, committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty" and greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. In 2008, Tom Friedman profiled Van in his bestselling book, Hot, Flat & Crowded. Also in 2008, Wilford Welch featured him in the book Tactics of Hope, and Joel Makower highlighted Van's ideas in the book Strategies for the Green Economy. To learn more about Van, visit his website: http://www.vanjones.net.

To learn more about the Horizon Institute, which I'm proud to serve as board chair, visit our website: www.Horizon-Institute.com. To learn more about the Center for American Progress, co-sponsor of this event, visit its website: http://www.americanprogress.org/

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Peter Dreier
Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics
Chair, Urban & Environmental Policy Program
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Phone: (323) 259-2913
FAX: (323) 259-2734
Website: http://employees.oxy.edu/dreier

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