Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're now moving into a stage where the green economy isn't just going to be the place for people to spend money.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Let us say: "We want to ensure that those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Let us all say together: "We want to build a green economy strong enough to life people out of poverty. We want… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share
I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who… — Van Jones Copy Share
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share
[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because… — Van Jones Copy Share
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that… — Van Jones Copy Share
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. — Van Jones Copy Share
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out. — Van Jones Copy Share
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector. — Van Jones Copy Share
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life. — Van Jones Copy Share
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