Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

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 lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

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.