Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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'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
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? — 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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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 Image
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