Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

It's time to change my life and see the world

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.