Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what I had to say, so he asked me if I'd be willing to be in this documentary he was doing about carbon pollution. I said, "Sure!" It was kind of a no-brainer.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

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.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.