11/18/08 Update: This event has been postponed due to a flight cancellation. MIT will try to bring Van Jones another time.

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How can we tackle climate change while also lifting people out of poverty and revitalizing our economy? What's the role of the Obama Administration likely to be in leading these efforts? How could leading universities like MIT, Harvard, Tufts, and others support the green jobs movement?

Van Jones will be addressing these and other issues at his talk next Wednesday, November 19th. Van is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. He is also the author of The Green Collar Economy (Harper One 2008), which is endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle and Al Gore.

Green For All is a U.S. organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged. Its mission is to build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to resolve the ecological crisis and lift millions of people out of poverty.

Wednesday, November 19
from 5:30 - 7:00 pm
on MIT's campus: Building 32 (the Stata Center), Room 123.

More details at http://www.vanjones.net/page.php?pageid=3.