From an article on Van Jones, linked from him own website.

His organization, Green for All, advocates for green-worker training, counsels local governments on how to set and meet energy-saving goals, and mentors leaders in poor communities to become front-runners in this emerging economic field. He thinks the unemployed during this downturn could be paid by the government to put their communities’ houses in ecological order. Green workers could turn roofs into solar fields and fix leaks in windows, doors, and poorly insulated walls.

“Our vision is that people will be able to be continually up-skilled: from laborer to installer to licensed electrician,” says Jones, who believes, with his characteristic optimism, that as workers climb the job ladder, they might discover new applications for existing technology. “Tilt the panel this way or that way, and you could conceivably come up with a real breakthrough and start your own company,” he explains. “Managers, then owners, then inventors.”http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200904-omag-van-jones

I understand now that his vision of the green economy is something that will be funded by the real economy, and of course there will be a ‘Eureka’ moment in which a magical breakthrough will happen and people will start their own companies. Thanks, taxpayers.