White House names Van Jones as advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation

By Miguel Llanos
Reporter
msnbc.com
updated 3:37 p.m. ET, Tues., March. 10, 2009

"In Newark, N.J., local government, business and labor are pioneering a public-private partnership to get everyday people quality jobs doing green
retrofits on low-income seniors' homes, keeping them warm and saving them money," he wrote. "In Pennsylvania, urban farming is producing cheap, clean biofuels while wind-power giant Gamesa is providing hundreds of green manufacturing jobs to the state.

"In Seattle," he said, "the county's Opportunity Greenway helps young, court-involved adults (ages 16 to 21) get their lives on track with paid internships in one of three high-wage, high-demand green career tracks: transportation, energy, and natural resources."

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