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Get to know green video links:

Click here to view: Van Jones - The Green Collar Economy
Author Van Jones discusses the real life experience of loss and inspiring the call to action, two themes of his award-winning book The Green Collar Economy.

Click here to view: Van Jones on Big Oil and the U.S. Political System
Van Jones responds to an audience question on if he addresses the influence of big oil companies on the United States government in his book The Green Collar Economy. Jones then describes the "military petroleum complex," his term for the relationship between the Pentagon and big oil.

Click here to view: Eric Schmidt: Renewables are Cheaper, Not Nuclear
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says despite the political debate, we should consider renewable energy over nuclear because "it's cheaper."

Click here to view: Craig Venter on the Biofuel Potential of Ocean Life
J. Craig Venter discusses his work with Synthetic Genomics, where he studied carbon feeding organisms in ocean sinks. These organisms hold a unique potential to create biofuels and may, Venter says, be the future for chemistry and the fuel industry.

Click here to view: Arnold Schwarzenegger to Detroit: Get Off Your Butt
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the zero emission Tesla electric car which will be built in California. He applauds Tesla's innovation and tells Detroit to "get off your butt."

Click here to view: Darrel Steinberg on Greening Education
California State Senator Darrell Steinberg urges that education reform be closely tied to the new green economy. This action, Steinberg says, will improve the alarming California drop out rate: 24% for all, 41% for African-Americans, and 31% for Latinos.

Click here to view: Van Jones – Lets Break Up with Oil
Van Jones likens our relationship with oil to a failing romance. By breaking up with oil, Jones says, we will move forward to alternative sources of energy. Jones advocates using the education system as an "entry point" for this transition.

Click here to view: J. Michael Davis: Making Alternative Energy Practical
J. Michael Davis, Associate Laboratory Director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, explains that while the government has funded and developed alternative energy technologies for years, there have been very few efforts to actually implement them.

Click here to view: James Woolsey: The Reality of Moving Away From Oil
James Woolsey, energy and climate change advisor to Senator John McCain, likens the transition to alternative energies to several other similar historical transitions, showing that it is not as difficult as some people think.

Get to know green links:

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green - Worldwatch Institute
Go Green! Monthly Newsletter - Enviromental Protection Agency
National Geographic - Green Guide

go green in the classroom:

Go Green Initiative - Register Your School...
Teaching Tips.com - 50 Ways to Go Green in the Classroom
Scolastic.com - Top 5 Ways to "Go Green" in the Classroom
e-How - Teach students how to celebrate earth day all year long with these ideas on how to go green in the classroom.