When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty.

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.