Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

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.

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.