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Watch, Discuss, Engage Now: Green Jobs Pioneer Van Jones

Join the live chat through Facebook or at WhiteHouse.gov/live/discuss with Van Jones of CEQ, featured in our video this morning. [UPDATE: This event has now concluded.]   ...

Green Jobs, Green Future: Van Jones Takes Your Questions

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 07:30 PM EST

Type: Audio/Video

Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, takes questions from Facebook and the White House website about the President’s unfolding vision for a clean energy economy. June 24, 2009. (Public Domain) ...

Chat with Van Jones: What You Missed

Posted on June 25, 2009 at 03:36 PM EST

Type: Blog Post, Includes Video

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Van Jones to CEQ

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley announced yesterday that Van Jones – an early green jobs visionary -- will start Monday as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at CEQ: Van Jones has been a strong voice for green jobs and we look forward to having him work with departments and agencies to advance the President’s agenda of creating 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources.  Jones will also help to shape and advance the Administration’s energy and climate initiatives with a specific interest in improvements and opportunities for vulnerable communities Jones is the founder of Green For All, an organization focused on creating green ...

Building a Clean Energy Economy: Van Jones Takes Your Questions

Posted on August 05, 2009 at 12:00 AM EST

Type: Audio/Video

Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, takes your questions from Facebook and WhiteHouse.gov on green jobs and building a 21st century clean energy economy. He also discusses how we can work with underserved communities to ensure they have access to the benefits and opportunities of a clean energy economy. August 4, 2009. (Public Domain) ...

A Busy Earth Day: Van Jones Video, All-Day Live-Blog

Posted on April 22, 2009 at 08:46 AM EST

Type: The Recovery Act, Blog Post, Includes Video

manufacturing facility producing wind towers.  But we also asked Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the Council on Environmental Quality , to walk us through a local player in the emerging clean energy economy, as just one ...

Green Jobs for a Green Future

Posted on May 05, 2009 at 10:47 AM EST

Type: Audio/Video

Van Jones from the White House Council of Environmental Quality visits a local work site that gives us a glimpse of the clean energy economy that's on the way. Green roofing is just one of the countless green job opportunities that will emerge from President Obama's comprehensive energy policy. May 5, 2009 (Public Domain) ...

Clean Energy Week

As part of Clean Energy Week, on June 23, 2009, Chair Nancy Sutley and Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council, visited Charlottesville, VA, to demonstrate the development of the city’s innovative revolving loan program for energy efficiency upgrades. During Clean Energy Week, Cabinet Secretaries and agency heads participated in events highlighting the President’s commitment to building a clean energy economy that will generate millions of green jobs, break our dependence on foreign oil, reduce the threat of deadly pollution and restore America’s role as a global leader in the clean energy industry. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes unprecedented investments in clean energy that will jump ...

Middle Class Task Force: Returning to the Scene of the Green

Secretary Hilda Solis, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House ...

Green Jobs: Watch the Panels

; Van Jones, President and founder of Green for All Creating Green Opportunity: The Roles of Stakeholders Governor Edward G. Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania; Mayor Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia; Leo Gerard, the International ...