190 Quotes by Van Jones


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    To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.

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    Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

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    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.

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

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    I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

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    The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

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

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