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raeerin22's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
3.0
A bit outdated but concepts and principles are still relevant and informative.
iambartacus's review
3.0
The author is a little bit odd and doesn't plan anything more than two weeks in advance (my school tried to get him to come and speak), but he does have some good points. He really wrote this more for people who have blue collar type jobs, not those of us in environmental academia.
Really what he's saying is the same thing other economists such as Thomas L. Friedman are saying: go back to school, diversity your skills, etc. Except he sticks the word green in and talks about new green technologies that need assembling. I'm not convinced all these green technologies are what we need, they allow us to keep consuming at the same rate. What we need to do is reduce consumption and send kids to school to be creative and come up with more efficient ways to do things and wean people away from the current fossil fuel applications. While we do need blue/green collar workers in America, we should also be encouraging bright, young Americans to go to college, and I don't think he does a good job of doing that.
Van Jones has some good points, but he comes across as dogmatic at times, and bitter at others, so occasionally his good points are lost, especially if you aren't his target audience. I don't think I would have read this book if it were not required for a class.
Really what he's saying is the same thing other economists such as Thomas L. Friedman are saying: go back to school, diversity your skills, etc. Except he sticks the word green in and talks about new green technologies that need assembling. I'm not convinced all these green technologies are what we need, they allow us to keep consuming at the same rate. What we need to do is reduce consumption and send kids to school to be creative and come up with more efficient ways to do things and wean people away from the current fossil fuel applications. While we do need blue/green collar workers in America, we should also be encouraging bright, young Americans to go to college, and I don't think he does a good job of doing that.
Van Jones has some good points, but he comes across as dogmatic at times, and bitter at others, so occasionally his good points are lost, especially if you aren't his target audience. I don't think I would have read this book if it were not required for a class.
steveab's review against another edition
5.0
unique mixing of social and environmental justice. wrote about it on idealware.org/blog
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