Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

WE GET TO SOLARTOPIA BY SHUTTING SAN ONOFRE as we begin with nuclear opponents Donna Gilmore and Michael Mariotte.  From southern California Donna tells us about the local battle to keep Units 2 3 permanently shut.  Michael speaks from the Nuclear Information Resource Service about how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs to be forced to stop giving out licenses to reactors that threaten us all. Then PAUL GIPE re-joins us to further explain the nuts and bolts of how Solartopian technology is re-shaping our world's energy system.  A true godfather of the renewable energy industry, Paul's iron grip on the nitty-gritties of the green transformation in Germany and elsewhere makes for an irreplaceable primer on how we must power a truly sustainable future.

CLEAN TECH NATION with CLINT WILDER comes to the Solartopia Green Power Wellness Show today at 3pm eastern at www.prn.fm.  Clint has a world of wisdom on where our country needs to go to convert to safe, cheap, clean technologies that will allow us to survive on this planet.  We'll trade some "war stories" on 2 No Nukes concerts 30 years apart. But before we go there, Myla Reson will join us from southern California with the latest on the battle to keep San Onofre shut

WINNING A TOTALLY GREEN GRID is the Solartopian goal of legendary renewables pioneer PAUL GIPE at this landmark Green Power Wellness Show. For decades Paul has pioneered the power of wind, solar and the whole array of renewable energy resources.  One of the planet's most powerful advocates of the feed-in tariff, Paul speaks with brilliance and clarity of green power industry's  accelerating capabilities to produce ALL our industrial energy far faster than many believed possible.  This is absolutely critical information for everyone who works for our survival on this planet.

ELECTION THEFT AND THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY are center stage as BOB FITRAKIS joins the Green Power Wellness Show to talk about the litany of ways we are denied our voice.   A new generation of Jim Crow laws deny people of color, elders, young people, poor people and other suspected small-d voters of our rights.  Electronic voting machines flip the ballot count.  Gerrymandered Congressional and statewide districts entrench a moneyed minority.  Money in politics and corporate personhood lock in the power of the super-rich.  The Senate filibuster makes the possibility of appointing a person with democratic views to the US Supreme Court.  As we sum up the barriers to our democracy, we also hear from ACE HOFFMAN about the latest insanities at California's SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR unit 2, where the utilities want to run a damaged reactor, near earthquake faults in a tsunami zone, as an "experiment" with 8 million people in the vicinity---and all the rest of us downwind

FUKUSHIMA, CHERNOBYL AND THE GREAT HEALTH IMPACT COVERUP are with us through Dr. Janette Sherman, Joe Mangano and Professor Sarah D. Phillips.  Dr. Sherman and Joe Mangano are among the tiny group of scientists and researchers who have investigated the impacts of the fallout from these disasters, and their findings are not good.  In particular, they warn that Fukushima's radiation has fallout has impacted us here in the United States.  Prof. Phillips has found disturbing parallels between treatment of fallout victims in "democratic" Japan with those in the "dictatorial" former Soviet Union.  It all reminds us, unfortunately, of what also happened in central Pennsylvania following the 1979 disaster at Three Mile Island.   Finally Ace Hoffman fills us in on the latest nonsense at SAN ONOFRE, two reactors in California's tsunami/earthquake zones.  They are now shut, but utility attempts to reopen them could bring us new Chernobyl/Fukushimas of our own.

HEMP!  is with us at 3pm today at the Solartopia Green Power Wellness Show along with Doug Fine's TOO HIGH TO FAIL.  After our spirited discussion of the many manifestations of marijuana (legal and otherwise) Doug comes to  talk about the world's most potentially profitable industrial crop.  From the Emerald Triangle to the green bluegrasses of Kentucky and beyond, don't miss this show.

In the shadow of Fukushima, join activist/organizer Deb Katz, filmmaker Dan Keller and NO NUKES author Anna Gyorgy with HarveyW as we cover energy from No Nukes to Germany's shift to Solartopia.  Deb gives us the field report on the campaign to shut Vermont Yankee and other northeastern reactors.  Dan tells us about his "conspiratorial" role in the legendary toppling of the infamous Montague weather tower in 1974 that, in part through his award-winning films, helped birth the global No Nukes movement.  And Anna fills us in on the actual birth of Solartopia in Germany, the world's 4th-largest economy, where nukes are being buried as fast as possible by cheaper, safer, cleaner and more welcome green power.  As much as it's possible to be up-beat on the 2d anniversary of the catastrophe at Fukushima, this show certainly is

Has Cannabis become TOO HIGH TO FAIL?  Doug Fine's best-selling reportage on the legalization of pot in the northern California county of Mendocino gives us a serious look at the future of America's drug policy.  Fine gives us lively, committed and often very funny tales of the $6 BILLION (that's not a typo) business that legal marijuana has become in the legendary "Emerald Triangle."   It's a a lively, enlightened Green Power Wellness Show, if you can remember it.  If not, listen to to how the  Solartopia of post-prohibition pot is coming soon.  And have a ton of fun coming with us!

Green Power And Wellness - 02/25/13