Van Jones Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

  Van Jones

  Gun, Technology, Climate

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.15, Harper Collins

• Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  Source: aalbc.com

• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

• Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Differences, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There 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.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Air

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Technology, Needs

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Competition, Energy

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Wind, Capture

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Two

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

• Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Technology, College

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Support

  Source: aalbc.com

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