Van Jones is the prominent spokespeople for the “Green Jobs Movement.”  Author of The Green Collar Economy and founder of Green for All, Van has a knack for connecting with people and connecting the dots between polar bears and poor kids.
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Last night I watched a television program I had taped. It was a program from Oprah’s show about living with less. Originally aired on March 2, 2009, “What Can You Live Without? Experiment,” profiled two families who committed for seven days to no shopping, no spending, no wasting. …

“The particular faith that motivates each of us can promote a greater good for all of us,” President Obama said Thursday, February 5, 2009, to a crowd of several thousand people gathered for the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in the nation’s capital. “Instead of driving us apart, [...]

“I used to assume that the direction of ‘progress’ was somehow inevitable, not to be questioned. I passively accepted a new road through the middle of a park, a steel-and-glass bank where a 200-year old church had stood…and the fact that life seemed to get harder and faster each day. I do not anymore. …