Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to… — 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… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled… — 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
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
Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — 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
The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust… — 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
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
It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing… — 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
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
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
