Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Green Power and Wellness - Blue Rock Station - 07/31/12

‘WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE” comes to HarveyW’s Green Power & Wellness Show along with a "virtual tour" of Blue Rock Station, where perfect llama poop mixes with renewable energy and homes made of tires and straw.  Jay and Annie Warmke are at center mike for an hour full of organic recipes for frozen peaches and an historic cruise through the rise and triumph of solar panels.   Did you know that llamas will stomp on skunks as they protect your chicken coop?

Green Power and Wellness - Gaia, Neo-Paganism and Polyamory - 07/24/12

GAIA, NEO-PAGANISM and POLYAMORY are back with HarveyW's Green Power & Wellness Show for a 2d round with Oberon Zell and Jeff Rosenbaum, mainstays of the annual Starwood Festival. Gaia advocate Oberon Zell--Wizard discusses his successive ten-year group marriages with the Triskelion and Ravenheart Clans, as well as the CHURCH OF ALL WORLDS and his forthcoming autobiography THE WITCH & THE WIZARD OZ. Jeff talks Starwood and the demands of sustaining one of the world's largest annual pagan gatherings over an astonishing 3-decade run, with notable keynoters such as Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Paul Krassner and many more stellar lights in the Avatar world of a new spiritual age.

Green Power and Wellness - Paganism and Wizardry - 07/17/12

PAGANISM, WIZARDRY, POLYAMORY AND THE GENIUS OF THE NEW AGE come to the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show as Oberon Zell and Jeff Rosenbaum join HarveyW for an enlightening hour of prophecy and magic. Does the coming end of the Mayan Calendar mean the apocalypse? or just the need to get a new calendar? Oberon Zell is a leading voice in the realm of spirit: an author, speaker and leader for decades of the emerging "Neo-Pagan" community, a phrase he coined. Jeff Rosenbaum is a founder of Starwood Festival, whose 32d annual gathering just brought scores of leading mystical thinkers from all over the world to a reclaimed strip mine in southeastern Ohio for an unparalleled week of revelry, insight and joy.

Green Power and Wellness - 07/10/12

CITIZEN POWER and its ability to fight nukes and win Solartopia comes to the Green Power & Wellness Show with award-winning activist David Hughes.  Based in Pittsburgh and northern Ohio, David has helped lead the green charge for midwestern wind and solar for many successful years.  We also hear about the legendary press of the 1960s counter-culture from Ken Wachsberger, editor of the superb VOICES FROM THE UNDERGROUND four volume anthology published by Michigan State University.

Green Power and Wellness - 07/03/12

BEYOND PESTICIDES we must go if we're to save the planet.  Activist Barry Zucker tells HarveyW and the Green Power & Wellness Show how he has helped northern Ohio's Cuyahoga County clean its buildings and public spaces of toxic chemicals.  Then legendary author Lynne Cherry talks about the million-selling GREAT KAPOK TREE and her 30 green-based books for young, plus her new award-winning series of short films highlighting environmental victories won by young activists.

Green Power and Wellness - 06/26/12

CITIZENS UNITED and unlimited corporate money are killing what's left of our democracy. DAVID COBB tells HarveyW's Green Power & Wellness Show all about it. A former Green Party candidate for President, David's MOVE TO AMEND (www.movetoamend.org) is circulating a Constitutional Amendment aimed at ending corporate personhood and removing money from electoral politics. More than 200,000 people have signed on and dozens of resolutions have been passed. Can we take our democracy back from the corporations? Listen in….YOU can make the difference….

Green Power and Wellness - 06/19/12

The HEIST and DEVIL'S TANGO are at the Green Power & Wellness Show today as Harvey explores nuclear power & the malefactors of great wealth.  Long-time activist Don Goldmacher's superb film on the theft of our nation will become part of the atomic dialog with author Cecile Pineda.

Green Power and Wellness - 06/12/12

HAS BARACK OBAMA ALREADY LOST THE 2012 ELECTION?  Stripped voter rolls, stolen vote counts, the failed Wisconsin recall and a dead-in-the-water White House fill this Green Power & Wellness Show.  Harvey is joined by his long-time co-conspirator Bob Fitrakis and election theft expert Richard Charnin to lay out how the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen and how the GOP can do it again in 2012.  Progressive Magazine Editor Matt Rothschild, direct from Wisconsin, explains how the Democratic Party diverted and diffused a vibrant grassroots movement into an electoral dead end.  And how by failing to show up at all, Barack Obama may be on his way to defeat in Novembe

Green Power and Wellness - 06/05/12

RADIOACTIVE TUNA & other nuclear nightmares on this Green Power & Wellness Show. Eliot Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists updates us on the wind production tax credits being held up by the corporate interests in Congress, threatening some 37,000 green jobs.  Mary Olson of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service covers the fight over the reactor projects that ARE getting subsidies.  And radiation/health expert Bob Alvarez of the Institute for Policy Studies explains the implications of radioactive tuna being caught off the cast of California. DON'T TOUCH THAT SUSHI but do join us for another riveting show with Harvey Wasserman.

Green Power and Wellness - 05/29/12

Solartopian WIND POWER in Indian Country, Cape Cod and Congress blows through this GREEN POWER AND WELLNESS SHOW.  Harvey's joined by Bob Gough of the Native American wind industry where available turbines could generate as much US electricity as all our nuclear reactors.  Christina Rawley and Ron Zweig of Falmouth, Massachusetts, tell us about Cape Wind and a shifting public view that supports the spread of wind power despite some well-funded opposition.  And Elliot Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists brings his Huffington Post article about the federal Production Tax Credit whose defeat could cost nearly 40,000 Americans their jobs.