Excerpt from Van Jones' book, The Green Collar Economy

In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, environmental activist and leader Van Jones tackles the challenges of oil dependence, a sagging economy, and global warming, transforming these looming threats into enormous financial opportunities through advocating for a new green-collar workforce. Click here for an excerpt from the book's first chapter.

From the book The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones. Copyright © 2008 by Van Jones. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. To read Sojourners' review of the book, click here.