In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

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

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.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

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.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.