Van Jones gets a new job

The Washington Post reports this morning that Phillips Exeter honored guest Van Jones will start teaching at Princeton and join the liberal think(less) tank the Center for American Progress.

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.

“I’m getting back engaged because we have this huge jobs crisis. People are pulling their hair out, saying, ‘What can we do?’ And I think I can make a contribution,” Jones said.