Green-jobs evangelist sells Obama's ambitious plans - ContraCostaTimes.com

Obama has lured the 40-year-old [Van] Jones into his administration to work on clean-energy issues and become a major spokesman for the president's energy policies. Jones was given the unwieldy title "special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation."
...He will also be a highly visible point person for Obama's energy plans, including a mandatory cap on carbon emissions.

A dynamic speaker, Jones is equally at home on a black radio station, "Larry King Live" or Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," where he disputed host Stephen Colbert's notion that pursuing green jobs was as realistic as "herding unicorns."

He doesn't think it's a pipe dream to combine "greening the ghetto" with fighting global warming. He rejects warnings from some economists that new jobs in the solar and wind industries won't be enough to make up for losses in a declining coal industry.
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Two years ago, Jones wrote that "we are witnessing the slow death of the Earth-devouring, suicidal version of capitalism," and the birth of "eco-capitalism." Now he meets with leaders of major industries, "not just the usual liberal suspects," and listens to their "special needs."