Green Economy Quotes

• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Wise, Jobs

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

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• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Police

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

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• En un mundo en el que millones de seres humanos viven en la pobreza extrema, mueren de desnutrición y carecen de atención médica, en el que las pandemias siguen matando, es imperativo proseguir las negociaciones de desarme de buena fe y desviar los presupuestos de la producción de armas, el belicismo y la vigilancia de personas privadas, y dedicar los recursos disponibles a abordar los retos mundiales, como la ayuda humanitaria, la protección del medio ambiente, la mitigación del cambio climático y la adaptación al mismo, la prevención de pandemias y el desarrollo de una economía verde.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Guerra, Desafíos, Medio ambiente

  "Experto de la ONU insta a los Estados a recortar el gasto militar e invertir más en desarrollo humano". www.ohchr.org. 14 de abril de 2014.

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• The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

  Van Jones

  Second Chance, People, Giving

  "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems". Book by Van Jones, 2008.

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• La principal pieza tecnológica de la economía ecológica es una pistola de calafateo.

  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

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• Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Leader, Environmental

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

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• Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, People, Green

  Fuente: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  Jack Welch

  Country, Order, America

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Earth, Green

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• There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

  Kshama Sawant

  Investing, Green, Casinos

  Fuente: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

  Achim Steiner

  Powerful, Book, Humanity

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