Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.