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Sacramento Business Journal: President Barack Obama’s controversial former “green jobs czar,” Van Jones, on Tuesday called Proposition 23, the ballot measure seeking to postpone California’s landmark climate change law, a “sledgehammer that’s being designed to destroy your job creating machine.”
Jones made his remarks before an audience of more than 350 people gathered for Mayor Kevin Johnson’s monthly Greenwise initiative meeting.
Jones, best-selling author of “The Green-Collar Economy,” said Sacramento has the right ingredients to be a leader in the clean-energy economy, citing its universities, creativity, strong work force and access to capital.
“Sacramento can help the whole country realize the future of America is not down those holes,” he said, referring to deep-water oil drilling and coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains. “If you want to see the future, look up. Look at the sky. Look at the wind.”
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/07/19/daily33.html
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