GM's Fall Can Become Green Economy's Rise

"De-carbonizing" the US economy means slashing our reliance on fossil energy to drive job growth and wealth, and replacing it with naturally-replenished, clean energy sources and materials.

The employment that would be created in the process gets shorthanded in public discourse as "green jobs."

Painting millions of roofs white to reflect heat back into space, an adaptation and mitigation strategy recently endorsed by Energy Secretary Chu? Reforesting North America? These are just the low-hanging fruit of green jobs that can help the environment, restore the stability of the climate, and put people to work for pay they can live on and outcomes they can take pride in.

Green For All's Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins believes that we as a nation can use the economy-shocking bankruptcy of General Motors to catapult the U.S. into a decarbonized economy.