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The right governed the country for eight years and ran it into a ditch. Conservatives have no plausible health care solution, no climate solution. They have nothing to offer in response to the nation’s pressing problems. What they have is affect. They have the amygdala, the fight-or-flight reflex. They have deep threads of racism, fear, and resentment.

In other words, they don’t care what Van Jones does, they care what he is. Beck peddles a message that’s been around since America was born: They’re taking your country away. They—the non-white races, the immigrants, the urbanites, the communists, the elites—are stealing the country from nice, simple white Christians.  They’re taking what rightfully belongs to us, to Real Americans.

The right governed the country for eight years and ran it into a ditch. Conservatives have no plausible health care solution, no climate solution. They have nothing to offer in response to the nation’s pressing problems. What they have is affect. They have the amygdala, the fight-or-flight reflex. They have deep threads of racism, fear, and resentment.

In other words, they don’t care what Van Jones does, they care what he is. Beck peddles a message that’s been around since America was born: They’re taking your country away. They—the non-white races, the immigrants, the urbanites, the communists, the elites—are stealing the country from nice, simple white Christians.  They’re taking what rightfully belongs to us, to Real Americans.

In 2003, environmental-justice leader Majora Carter, the widely praised founder of Sustainable South Bronx, started the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST), which is lauded as one of the strongest local green-jobs initiatives in the country. BEST has graduated over 100 workers in green-job training and placed 80 percent in jobs, at a cost of between $7,000 and $8,000 per participant.

In Richmond, California, the community-based nonprofit Solar Richmond partnered with the city and another nonprofit called GRID Alternatives to put low-income residents to work installing solar-energy systems in homes of poor residents. The 10-week training program has placed 11 participants to date in jobs paying an average of $18.33 per hour with benefits.

Chicago's GreenCorps program, established in 1994, trains up to 50 people each year, many of them ex-offenders, for jobs in landscaping, gardening, weatherization, and recycling. Another Chicago program, Growing Home, was started in 1992 to place homeless and formerly incarcerated people into living-wage jobs in organic farming.