With all the indications of the greedy myopia of many of the uber-capitalists, as evidenced by the financial crisis (a 30-year spree of which George Bush is just the rotten cherry on top) that is hurting so many regular people, it's heartening to read a post that asserts common sense thinking like this:
The key to supporting green collar entrepreneurs is to combine Van Jones' green job training model with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus' model for microfinance. In other words, what these entrepreneurs need is green job/entrepreneurship training, combined with access to affordable capital with flexible credit and collateral requirements.
Our own tlg has written about this, and I believe it's exactly right. And it seems as if PE Obama has enough real sense to rein in the over-reliance on rampant, unregulated capitalism and focus on helping from the bottom up. That's the kind of fundamental attention to reality we need.
And it looks like it's on the way.
What can we do to help?
