Great Shift Dialogues: Van Jones and Majora Carter

Van Jones & Majora Carter | 05.13.08 |

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• Van Jones bio
• Majora Carter bio

Van Jones and Majora Carter are two pioneers of the sustainability revolution, bringing a social justice sensibility and practical solutions that benefit disenfranchised people to the discussion of how to green out planet. Together they have launched the Green for All program, a national initiative dedicated to creating green jobs that are good for people, planet, and profits. In this Great Shift dialogue, they discuss the vast federal resources subsidizing prisons and polluters and explore how this could be redirected to developing clean energy and healthy cities. Van reflects on how to address the racism and class bias in the sustainability movement, so it can unleash its fulfill promise. Majora shows through her Sustainable South Bronx program how "greening the ghetto" can provide benefits for all. Both speak of the pent-up yearning to have a significant cultural shift towards sustainability that also addresses the need for economic opportunity.