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Green Quotes by Van Jones
- The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those…
- The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling…
- Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because…
- Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
- Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and…
- 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, and mobile markets…
- In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
- 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.
- The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
- The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can…
- Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
- To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
- 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 pollution-based jobs, we…
- A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means…
- We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in…
- There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability…
More Green Quotes
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — Francis Bacon
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams
- I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in… — William Blake
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a… — H. P. Blavatsky
- Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent.… — Michael Bloomberg
- After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person. — Emily Blunt