“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.” PeopleKnowsGivingReasonHelpingJobsLostDifferencesCompanyInvolvedRepublicanCreatingPicksCapitalismGood ThingsCleanAlbumsBonesGapsVentureRomneyFundingIsmsVultureVenture CapitalCreating Jobs Author:Rick Perry
“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.” ThinkingWritingKindCharacterArtistInterestingCreatingOppositesCleanActivismContradictionActivistOddsPalateCreating Characters Author:Eve Ensler
“Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!” WayLooksHelpingJobsFilmUsedCompanyTechnologyImagineEventsIndustryCreatingOrganizationGreenImpactCleanProductionsExcitedOilDisasterFuelReliefZeroConstructionEfficientElectricProvidingAgricultureBreadthPositive ImpactNonprofitsOil CompaniesGeneratorCreating JobsDisaster Relief Author:Ian Somerhalder
“That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.” WellsMeanJobsEnergyWaterDealsSunAchieveWindCallingCreatingMajorsProgramCleanClimateIncludingControlledPortionsInfrastructureRestorationTransportationEmissionsEcosystemsRenewable EnergyGuidelinesPrototypeNew DealPublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.” EnoughFactsShowsMovingEnergyPayStudyCostCreatingDollarsCleanBillionsSavedSavingDietsSavingsRenewable EnergyClean Energy Author:Jill Stein
“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.” NeedsHelpingJobsFormEnergyAnswersMillionsEconomyExampleIndustryHealthyCreatingWeaponsCleanWorkersProductionsFuelTransitionEfficiencyGood JobFossilsManufacturingTransportationFossil FuelDepartureRenewable EnergyLiving WagePublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“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.” FirstsMeanStatesGovernmentHappensJobsFormOpportunityEnergySpaceWalksUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingInnovationCompetitionCleanInvestmentWaveEntrepreneurshipFloodCarbonCleanersNew JobPentagonWalks Of LifeClean EnergyTidal Waves Author:Van Jones
“The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.” JobsEnergyStepsPlansCreatingCleanCarbonEmissionsClean EnergyCarbon Emissions Author:Catherine Cortez Masto
“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?” KnowsProblemJobsEnergyEconomicMiddleSourceDevelopmentIndustryHigherCreatingSolutionsIndependenceCleanOilEastPrioritiesDirtyAgendasWhy NotVotersMiddle EastCarbonEmissionsEconomic DevelopmentClean EnergyEnergy SourcesCarbon EmissionsCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.” NeedsWholeBigsJobsEnergyMillionsPolicyIndustryCreatingCleanInvestmentAvailableOilAlternativesWinnerGlobal WarmingAddressesVotersNew JobClean EnergyAmerican VotersEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.” BelieveWarCoursesNextI BelieveTermChallengesMoralIssuesGenerationsAirSecurityPlanetsRight NowCreatingInnovationCrisisCleanClimateProsperityPreservesNational SecurityNext GenerationThis GenerationCompetitivenessMoral IssuesHealth IssuesClean Air Author:Nancy Pelosi
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” RealityJobsPoetrySilenceCreatingCleanOur WordsGreat Poetry Author:Stephane Mallarme