I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in her own party, then she's going to have to put down the [Donald] Trump rebellion and then try to govern.

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.