The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?