Our Executive Director, Chris Chafe, and Green for All President Van Jones have a guest post up today at Anderson Cooper’s CNN blog on the state of the green jobs movement:
The potential of the emerging green economy is enormous. What we need is smart, supportive federal investment to help that potential become a reality for all Americans. And President Obama’s administration gets it. That’s the biggest signal we should take from the fact that Vice President Biden is focusing the first meeting of his Middle Class Task Force on green jobs.
But there’s another signal we should absolutely NOT take from the meeting. We should not take it as a signal that we have arrived, that our message has gotten through, that the hard part is over. No, this meeting is a sign that we are finally beginning.
UPDATE (12:45PM): Good green jobs op-ed by Vice President Joe Biden in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, too:
The economic-recovery package that President Obama signed into law last week contains more than $20 billion for investment in a cleaner, greener economy, including $500 million for green job training. The task force’s first order of business is to evaluate how investing in green jobs will help build a strong middle class…
Investing in green jobs… means keeping up with the modern economy. At a time when good jobs at good wages are harder and harder to come by, we must find new, innovative opportunities.