Rep. Jeff Hayden, DFL-61B (left) and Rep. Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-58B (right) pictured with Van Jones, a nationally renowned green jobs advocate recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to President Obama’s as the United States Green Jobs Czar. Jones spoke with Minnesota legislators in March about local strategies to grow green jobs in Minnesota. Jones was recently named special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation in the Obama administration. He will work to help direct the administration's efforts to create jobs and help the environment. According to Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Jones will work on "vulnerable communities." Jones founded Green for All, a national organization that promises environmentally friendly jobs to help lift people out of poverty. He wrote the New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy.
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