Colbert Report and green-collar jobs.

Neat! Good interview with my old boss, Van Jones, about the potential for green-collar jobs to revitalize the economy. As a sidenote when I was working on this two years ago and Van was talking about green-collar jobs, people thought we were sort of bonkers, or hippies. Seeing this on The Colbert Report as something mainstream is pretty awesome.

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  1. oh! http://www.greenforall.org is the way to get involved

  2. When I saw this clip on the CR whilst on the couch last night, I got all excited and poked the top of your my wife’s head with my finger and shouted “Hey! Hey!”. She thought it was a spider in her hair and flipped out. Much excitement followed.

    I should say, too, that he looks like a handsome and charismatic fellow. Just the type of dapper gent to be at the forefront of a generation of forward-thinking folks. Pretty neat.

  3. I changed my mind. Can I vote for this black guy instead? Should I not say stuff like that out loud?

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