To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? — 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
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
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
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political… — 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
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
“My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.” — 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
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
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin… — 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
Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee… — 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
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… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a… — 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… — 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
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 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
As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet,"… — 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
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's… — 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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