Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

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 job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?