I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

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.

People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.

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?

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.