Green-Collar Job Training
- Van Jones, Founding Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Submitted by Chris Rasmussen
November 6th, 2007
Posted in
"We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future -- things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling … rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs."

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