Big Think Video Interviews on Green Jobs and Economic Growth

Big Think has done a number of video interviews with green job advocates over the past several years.  You can view a summary of these interviews here.

I found these clips from interviews with former Obama administration official Van Jones and with environmental justice student activist Kari Fulton especially interesting. In the first interview, Jones discusses the problem of “getting the rules right.”  As a recent WPost article suggests, without creating the rules and incentives that increase the price of dirty energy sources, no matter the amount of private investment and government stimulus in the area, it’s unlikely that a market transformation will take shape.

In the second interview Fulton argues that one-time stimulus is not enough.  In inner cities, she argues that a long term infrastructure is needed that keeps those green jobs created in place and continues to grow the opportunities and prospects in the area.