Climate Quotes by Van Jones

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

— Van Jones

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

— Van Jones

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

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Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

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The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

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Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

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Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

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The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

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We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to…

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Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new…

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I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of…

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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and…

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By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

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Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will…

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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political…

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The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of…

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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's…

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In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming…

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All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,…

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The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent…

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Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops,…

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It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our…

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The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf…

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We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind…

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The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of…

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Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of…

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Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

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Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

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We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

— Van Jones

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

— Van Jones

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

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The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

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If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All…

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Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

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There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have…

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We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy…

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We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage…

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