Living the American Green

You know what’s scary/exciting?  The world is suddenly listening to me.

Ok, no.  They aren’t.  In fact, they are still ignoring LtAG on apace.  But doesn’t it feel, regular reader, that I wrote the following press release?  (excerpted at length cause it’s so damn exciting):

From: Van Jones

Re: Generally being awesome:

Great news! I’m going to the White House! And Green For All has an amazing new leader!

Special Advisor For Green Jobs: Me

I will be at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. My job will be to help shape the administration’s energy and climate policy, so that climate solutions produce jobs and justice for all Americans.

I am going to be the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Dispelling Some Rumors

If you’ve had your ear to the blogosphere in the past few days, you may have heard some rumors. The most prevalent call me the new “Green Jobs Czar.”

But I am not going to be any kind of  “Czar.”  If anyone were to be the “Green Jobs Czar” (a position that does not exist), it would and should be Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. She was an original sponsor of the Green Jobs Act of 2007. Obama appointed her as the first Latina – and first green leader – to head the Department of Labor. Can anyone say “Green Jobs Czarina”?

Also, rumors that I will be handing out big piles of Recovery Act cash are utterly false. Unfortunately.

Yup. That’s right. Main man Van is going to hang out with Main man Obama.  With all this going my way, now the exciting part happens: we get to see if all this talking was actually right.  If there were to be one hand picked person who I would say “got” the “correct” version of environmentalism, this is my dude.  Awful hard to stay cynical… fighting to retain… righteous anger…

And just think!  Now, when all this turns out to be wrong wrong wrong, and we end up a socialist state taking handouts from the Japanese and Germans, you all will know that it was my bad.

Also exciting: Green For All, the progressive and environmentally justice minded organization that Van was the head of until today, is still going strong.  I don’t yet know the name Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, but I hope I type it as often and as orgasmicly as I’ve come to type Van Jones.

Who wrote this one?  TheAmericanGreen - The founding member of the American Green institute, and a New York based producer and writer hoping to make the jump from "freelancer" to "documentary producer". Read more from this author