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Van Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Jones, a charismatic 40-year-old Yale Law School grad who has emerged as a major green star over the past year, argues that environmentalism won't just be about the environment anymore. Instead, it will drive fundamental changes in the way we do business and the jobs we create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

The answer, Jones writes in his book, is the creation of green-collar jobs that provide working-class employment, shield America from rising fossil fuel prices and stem carbon emissions. These are not the high-tech, high-education "George Jetson" jobs, as Jones puts it, that were created by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

But the glory of Little Honey is less its poetry than its ability to sustain happiness as a mood. There is Williams' glorious voice, of course--cracking in the verses and lubricating the choruses of "Tears of Joy"; drolly channeling Tammy Wynette to Elvis Costello's George Jones on "Jailhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweetness and Light | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

SOUTH PARK registers displeasure over Indiana Jones sequel with episode showing Indy violated by Lucas and Spielberg

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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