October 21, 2008

Community Colleges Are Key to 'Green' Jobs, Speaker Says

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Austin, Tex.

By LAURA MCCANDLISH

Straddling the divide between government and industry, community colleges play a pivotal role in pushing our fossil-fuel-dependent economy toward a reliance on renewable energy, the environmental activist Van Jones said in an opening address to the National Council for Workforce Education conference here on Sunday.

“You are the fulcrum on which this whole transition is going to be made,” Mr. Jones told a

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