The Green Collar Economy

Los Angeles, California

December 18, 2008, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

About This Event

In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: We cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.

Instead, 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 downward spiral.

There will be a provocative Q&A after the presentation.

Copies of The Green Collar Economy will be available for purchase.

Featured author:
Van Jones, Founder and president, Green for All; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Author, The Green Collar Economy

Location

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2707

Parking is available in Cathedral garage for $10 - Enter off Temple or Hill

The Horizon Institute is a think tank that explores and promotes new ideas about the economy. Committed to the values of fairness, opportunity, and shared prosperity, Horizon seeks to find common ground among diverse stakeholders in order to foster a more equitable society.