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To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

Van Jones

Opportunity, America, People

Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.

Van Jones

Opportunity, Diversity, Energy

Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.17, Harper Collins

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 person’s 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 Jones

Country, Opportunity, People

The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first.

Van Jones

Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

Van Jones

Opportunity, People, Giving

Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.

Van Jones

Opportunity, Arriving, Green

Source: aalbc.com

Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion, but the way he deals with it is actually puts him in a super minority in terms of people who are able to somehow bring himself to support his language and demeanor.

Van Jones

Opportunity, People, Support

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.

Van Jones

Opportunity, Want, Week

Source: abcnews.go.com

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

Van Jones

Real, Opportunity, Threat

Source: abcnews.go.com

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

Van Jones

Country, Opportunity, Energy

Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.19, Harper Collins

That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

Van Jones

Jobs, Kids, Opportunity