When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young personโs life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.
Van JonesEnvironmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
Van JonesEnvironmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
Van JonesDonald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
Van JonesNow I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."
Van JonesThere would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a clear and firm decision - terminating the idea in our society it is free to pump infinite amounts of carbon into the air. Once that happens, private capital will flow even more aggressively into developing and deploying the alternative, less-polluting technologies.
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