Episodes
Thursday Jun 23, 2016
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 06.23.16
Thursday Jun 23, 2016
Thursday Jun 23, 2016
The Diablo Canyon Nuke will shut and we are honored to talk about it
with three great players in this amazing success for citizen activism.
Jim
Riccio of Greenpeace USA gives us the perspective of a world-class safe
energy campaigner on the global stage. Linda Seeley of the San Luis
Obispo Mothers for Peace tells us what’s happening on the local level
with one of the most powerful and persistent of all our grassroots
groups. Ace Hoffman fills us in from the backyard of San Onofre, which
he has helped to shut, and whose epic struggles with massive debt and
unmanageable wastes continue unabated.
Together we vet the Diablo
shutdown agreement. We start with PG&E’s admission that all
Diablo’s power can be got from renewable. We explore the landmark deal
that’s been cut with organized labor and we emphasize the reality that
this agreement has been pioneered by environmental groups whose
commitment to a green-powered Earth is unshaken.
For an in-depth
look at the most important step yet taken toward end nuke power and
winning a Solartopian future, don’t miss this show.
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 06.16.16
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
Solartopia is home to two great activists, David Swanson and Linda
Seeley who are fighting against war and the Diablo Canyon nuke.
David
starts with his World Beyond War perspectives on military madness and
the fact that nearly all terror attacks are motivated by people seeking
revenge for US attacks on their country.
David’s legendary
speeches and writings on peace, disarmament and the need to abolish
nuclear weapons have made him one of the world’s leaders in winning us a
peaceful planet.
Linda then speaks to us from San Luis Obispo,
California, on the June 28 hearing in front of the California Lands
Commission. The three members of this commission will determine whether
Pacific Gas & Electric, owner of the Diablo Canyon nukes, will be
required to meet standards laid out in 1970 by the California
Environmental Quality Act. Signed by then-Governor Ronald Reagan, the
law requires an Environmental Impact Review to protect the tidewater
regions now being abused by Diablo Canyon’s cooling system.
A
long-time veteran of the fight for safe energy, Linda gives us the
details on a regulatory debate that could finally force shut two of the
world’s most dangerous nukes.
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 06.09.16
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
The legendary Golden Rule peace ship hosts its first ever on-board radio cast as we call in from the deck. The ship is in Portland, Oregon to demonstrate as the navy brings in its men of war to display to the local citizenry. We hear from veterans for peace organizer Helen Kaccard narrate the amazing history of this powerful boat. Long-time activist Mimi German tells us how we will shut down the Columbia Generating station, the last nuke in the northwest. As we sail the Wilamette River through Portland, encountering huge armed vessels from the US Navy we rejoice in the ability to fight against the nuclearadness aboard this wonderful ship with the fabulous legacy
Thursday Jun 02, 2016
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 06.02.16
Thursday Jun 02, 2016
Thursday Jun 02, 2016
The legendary PAUL KRASSNER is the star of this Solartopia Show.
We
join Paul in his California home to run through his astonishing
lifetime as a “guerilla satirist,” stand-up comedian, author, activist,
videographic expert, psychedelic pioneer and much much more.
Paul has been with us in Solartopia before, but his boundless experience and wit make him always an A-List guest.
Today
we discuss Ken Kesey, Tim Leary, the CIA, LSD and the Agency’s
inadvertent role in introducing psychedelics to the counter-culture.
Since
Paul was the founder of “Yippie,” the hippie/left offspring of the
1960s anti-war movement, we also ruminate on what “might have been” had
Mayor Richard Daley granted permits to the demonstrators (me among them)
at the 1968 Chicago Convention.
We also then plunge into today’s
booming world of on-line pornography. Paul was a writer for Hustler
when its publisher Larry Flint was shot, and has written extensively
about the industry that has become the most-watched phenomenon in all
the world of video. The discussion is fascinating but unfinished, so
we’ll have to have Paul back with us again soon!