To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

America's government has to get the public investments right.