Orion Advisory Board member Van Jones, founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, was named Special Advisor to the Obama Administration. Sustainable Business News reported, “As a member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) his duties will include: helping to shape and implement job-generating climate policy; working to ensure equal protection and equal opportunity in the administration’s climate and energy proposals; and publicly advocating the administration’s environmental and energy agenda.” Congratulations to Van Jones and to all of us!