Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.