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 things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

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.