Van Jones Rejoins Center for American Progress. By Juliet Eilperin, WashPost, February 24, 2010. "Van Jones, the environmental justice advocate who relinquished his post as a White House adviser five months ago after coming under fire from conservative activists, is reemerging on the public policy stage to push for green jobs... Jones, who has been consulting for companies and nonprofits on environmental issues, will start teaching at Princeton University in June and is rejoining the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, next month... He will have a one-year joint appointment as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he will teach a seminar on environmental and economic policy... Jones will commute to Princeton from Washington, where he lives with his family, and will spearhead a 'green opportunity initiative' as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Jones said he would spend his time at the think tank examining how to push for 'green enterprise zones' that would encourage clean technology development in poor urban and rural areas; for an aggressive national renewable energy standard; and for a 'Home Star' program that would provide federal incentives to make homes more energy-efficient." NAACP Awards Van Jones for Work Promoting Green Jobs. NYTimes, February 27, 2010.
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