TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Van AU - Conrad,Ariane TI - The green-collar economy: how one solution can fix our two biggest problems SN - 9780061650765 (pbk.) U1 - 363.7 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - HarperOne KW - Environmental policy KW - United States KW - Environmental protection KW - Social legislation KW - Environmental conditions KW - Social policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244); A green new deal -- The dual crises -- The fourth quadrant -- Title TK N2 - The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral ER -