The Green Collar Economy - By Van Jones

We just did our day of action, and that is now history. In this hyper-speed news cycle check out this recent article / editorial by Thomas Friedman, and then go to Van Jones’ site and buy the following book:

On October 7, Green For All founder and president Van Jones will release his first book: The Green Collar Economy. The book is a powerful argument for a national commitment to green economic development as a way to address our environmental and economic crises at once. Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country--the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.

Oh and the fly woman in the picture is Nicole Henderson, and yes, she is fly:

Nicole "Nikki" Henderson hails from Los Angeles, with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in African American Studies. During her graduate career, Nikki's research interests included theater, sustainability, environmental justice and political ecology as it relates to African Americans, and she lectures across California. Beyond academics, Nikki mentors at-risk youth through the foster system and has worked with the California Student Sustainability Coalition in lead roles for the past four years. She joins Green for All with a passion for ecology and social justice.