Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 1.18.24

EXPERT SOLARTOPIAN ADVICE ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES & THE BATTERY REVOLUTION

 

PAUL GIPE, a legendary pioneer in wind and solar energy, joins us with the inside Solartopian scoops on electric cars and new developments in battery technology.

 

Paul has owned and operated at least one electric car for many years, with vital ground-breaking stories to tell.

 

He is a staunch advocate for many good reasons, which he freely shares on this special green-powered CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA broadcast.

 

Paul is joined by TATANKA BRICCA, a legendary peace, justice and environmental organizer with his own great stories to tell.

 

Tatanka shares his own unique wisdom in dialogue with Paul, Harvey & co-host MYLA RESON.

 

Together they discuss critical new developments in the battery industry.

 

In particular, the developing use of sodium as a cheap but powerful replacement for lithium looms as a great green-powered game changer.

 

We also welcome some excellent callers to this lively talk, which was first broadcast at KPFK-Pacifica in Los Angeles.

 

Like Solartopia itself, this show is full of Solartopian wit, wisdom & green goodwill.  JOIN US!!!  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 1.11.24

A GUIDE TO GRASSROOTS SALVATION IN 2024

 

Our first GREEP zoom of 2024 lays out in deep detail the Grassroots path to defeating dictatorship in this fall election.

 

ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON are the two major architects of “relational” organizing in the southeastern US.

 

For nearly two hours they lay out the foundational guidelines for a winning strategy among ordinary voters throughout the US.

 

This presentation will be at the core of progressive non-media-based electoral work for the coming year and beyond.

 

Needless to say, the future of American democracy rests on the clarity and success of this presentation.

 

WENDI LEDERMAN adds a brutal assessment of the attack on a woman’s right to control her own body.

 

JUSTIN LEBLANC adds broad perspective to the issue.

 

STEVE CARUSO reports on the absolute insanity dominating Ohio.

 

DR. NANCY NIPARKO gives us critical data on women’s health in the US.

 

TATANKA BRICCA warns of the loss of our republic.

 

MYLA RESON bids us a fond farewell.

 

And we congratulate the University of Michigan football team on its first natonal championship in many decades.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 1.4.24

SHUTTING THE NUKE POWER INDUSTRY & SAVING SOLAR WHILE FACING UF0S


We’re joined at GREEN POWER & WELLNESS via CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA and a deep dive into the hard realities of getting to a green-powered Earth.

Along with co-hosts MYLA RESON and TSUKURU FORS, we hear from  KARL GROSSMAN, LINDA SEELEY and TATANKA BRICCA.

They tell us of the latest nuke-threatening quakes in Japan, the absurd failure of the COPS Conference on Climate, the desperate need to shut Diablo Canyon, the utter insanity of Gavin Newsom’s attacks on rooftop solar.

We conclude with an excursion into the transformed world of UFOlogy, newly renamed….with way more to come…..so JOIN US. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 12.21.23

KILLING DEMOCRACY IN FL & OH; DIGITAL DERANGEMENT; POEMS FROM THE HEART

 

 

GREEP zoom #161 begins with WENDI LEDERMAN & CAROLINA AMPUDIA reporting on the Florida “Democratic” Party decision to cancel its presidential primary.  

 

This astounding, unprecedented attack on electoral democracy accompanies a concerted attempt by the Republican Party to kill a popular referendum meant to preserve the right to abortion.  Despite having gathered more than 1.4 million signatures, Florida’s right wing is working overtime to deny the public the right to decide.

 

From Ohio, STEVE CARUSO reports that $4.3 million in fossil/nuclear bribes have found their way to the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission, now indicted and on trial.  E-mails between CPUC Chair Sam Randazzo and nuclear reactor owner FirstEnergy show an astonishing line of corruption aimed at bailing out Ohio’s decrepit fossil/nuke burners.

 

CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. NICHOLAS KARDERAS, author of Glow Kids and Digital Madness as well as a wide range of medical and professional studies on the impacts of algorithms on our brains.

 

Dr. Kardaras gives us a terrifying tour of the devastating impacts of digital addiction—especially when it comes to our children.  Among other things, we are exposed to the horrifying impacts sedentary hours in front of a screen can have on us and our kids.  These assaults range from depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis and much much more.  The epidemic of social media with zero nuance has ravaged the mental wellness of an entire generation.

 

This “weakening of the American mind” means the demise of critical thinking, creating an emotional brittleness and a “Stockholm Syndrome” that makes us love the tech oligarchs who imprison our narrowing minds by deliberately spreading dark chaos, the essential ingredient for fascism.

 

MIKE HERSH, LYNN FEINERMAN, DR. NANCY NIPARKO, JUSTIN LEBLANC, STEPHEN KAISER, DONALD SMITH, DAVID SALTMAN, ERIC LAZARUS, MYLA RESON add to our fond farewell to 2023.

 

As that happens, RON LEONARD helps us dedicate ourselves to preventing fascism in 2024.  

We end with the brilliant, moving poems of Mimi German, hoping she’ll become our very own poet laureate.

See you then!! 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 12.14.23

DEAD FUKUSHIMA FISH; INSANE KOP28 GOES NUKE-CRAZY; ENDING HATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

We start GREEP ZOOM #160 with a discussion of Ohio’s newly legalized pot access, and the insane interventions against abortion in Texas and Ohio.

KARL GROSSMAN explains some of the horrors of the radioactive release at Fukushima, Japan, which has been followed by the predicable mass death of millions of sardines and mackerel in northern Japan.

Karl has reviewed RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND by Heidi Hutner, featuring four stalwart women whose health and families have been decimated by radioactive fallout from the 1979 TMI disaster.

KAT KRAMER reminds us of her great work with Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World which will feature the WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND, perhaps in March.

Karl further describes the KOP28 which was captured by the Emirates’ oil industry and nuke power promoters who want 3X the reactors we have now.

TATANKA BRICCA then joins in with a description of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s sabotage of the phase-out of two decrepit reactors at Diablo Canyon.

WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and JUSTIN LEBLANC add to the dialog.

We're then regaled by CAMILLA REES, JOHN STEINER & MIKE HERSH with the needs of the GREEP calls for financial support.

In our second hour, DR. KENNETH STERN & legendary newsman DAVID SALTMAN conduct a uniquely powerful session on the Middle East.

Dr. Stern represents the Bard College Center for the Study of Hate.  He and Dave share powerful, unique knowledge of the history of this war-torn region that casts the current Gaza disaster in a new light.

LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MYLA RESON, ELISSA MATROSS wrap us into a peaceful, powerful climax unlike virtually any other discussion of this polarizing ancient never-ending hell-storm. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 12.07.23

VOTING RIGHTS & BRIBERY IN OHIO; HOW GOOGLE MANIPULATES PUBLIC OPINION; NUKE POWER ON THE ATTACK       


We start with the great ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, who open GREEP #159 with their usual genius insights on voting rights, gerrymandering and more, primarily in the BIPOC south.

STEVE CARUSO joins to fill us in on the corrupt insanity of Ohio.  Buckeye officials from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Public Utilities Commission Chair and others are all implicated in the infamous $61 million bribe  for “persuading” the Legislature for a $1billion nuclear power bribe.  The former House Speaker, Larry Householder, has already begun a 20-year prison term.

CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN and his pioneer work in tracking the undue influence of Google and other internet giants in swaying public opinion.  Dr. Epstein’s riveting, groundbreaking presentation

The presumption is that the influence is meant to be “pro-liberal,” but co-convener MIKE HERSH argues that the real agenda is pro-corporate, far to the right of the American mainstream. 

Major media legend DAVID SALTMAN challenges the idea that such manipulation can tangibly shape voting behavior,

ERIC LAZARUS, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LEDERMAN and others chime in on the anti-democracy wave drowning our nation in outright autocracy.

We’re then joined by the legendary clean energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN, who reports on the corporate call for the world to triple its insane commitments to atomic energy. 

At the latest global climate conference, a convening sheik amazingly asserts that the burning of fossil fuels has no impact on global climate.

STEVEN SONDHEIM, RON LEONARD and others chime in on the nuclear attack on our planet.

NINA BEETY raises the possibility that a breeder reactor may have been built by PG&E at Moss Landing, California.

MYLA RESON, newly elected member of the National Board of the Pacifica Radio Network, reminds us that the California Solartopia show she co-hosts with me (Harvey Wasserman) has returned to to KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles at 5pm PT Wednesday evenings.  That show can be heard at KPFK.org.

We will see & hear you again on December 11.  Until then…..NO NUKES….Shut Diablo

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 11.30.23

REDISTRICTING IN GA & OH; RECYLING AND TRITIUM IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER; OHIO’S ATOMIC VORTEX and MORE MIDDLE EAST EXPLORATION

 

 

RAY MCCLENDON & RACHEL COYLE join us from Georgia and Ohio to parse out the grotesquely anti-democracy shenanigans from the MAGA right.

 

CAROLINA AMPUDIA fills us in on the struggles of Florida’s teachers' unions to sustain the public school system in the face of Ron DeSantis’s fascist attacks.

 

JOHN KEARNEY reports to us from Minneapolis on his new high-tech Recycling Electronics for Climate Action, aiming to re-use large quantities of rare metals that would otherwise require very dirty mining operations.

 

JOHN LAFORGE of NukeWatch reports on the insanely dangerous tritium links at the Monticello nuke which threatens the Mississippi River with deadly radiation.

 

HEDY TRIPP, LINDA SEALEY,  JUSTIN LEBLANC all chime in on the immense impacts of radioactive fallout.

 

MYLA RESON celebrates the return of our CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA show to KPFK/Pacifica radio in Los Angeles.

 

STEVE CARUSO and VINA COLLEY give us a devastating overview of the Portsmouth-Piketon recycling/enrichment facility in southern Ohio, the true vortex linking the commercial nuclear power industry to the real Death Star—the nuclear weapons complex.

 

WENDI LEDERMAN explains the attempt to pave Flordia’s road with radioactive waste.

 

MARY BUTLER pipes in from Spokane to remind us of the atomic mega-disaster at the Hanford reservation.

 

VINNIE DESTEFANO updates us on the Julian Assange case.

 

In our second round table on the Middle East, we hear from Code Pink’s CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER, LYNN FEINERMAN, MIKE HERSH, JULIE WEINER, FAISAL KHAN, SALEEM, OMER and others as we pursue more open, civil discussion on the world’s most complex and brutal ethnic war.  

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 11.16.23

MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE 2D HOUR, WHICH GOES FOR TWO HOURS.  

THE FIRST HOUR IS JUST A SINGLE HOUR, & WE WON’T USE IT ON TODAY’S PRN.LIVE BROADCAST.  THANKS!!



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> A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al.
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> Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy.
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> We start with LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace, who updates us on the multi-front fight to shut California’s Diablo Canyon Nukes.
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> The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor scam. 
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> NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012.
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> That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed.
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> NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam.
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> But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed.
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> Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy.
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> Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says.
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> Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says.
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> In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds.
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> With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals.
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> New grid materials brighten the equation.
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> Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production.
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> Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables.
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> “Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental.
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> Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes.
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> JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion.
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> We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power.
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> Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars.
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> At the end we learn it’s Amory’s birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering.
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> Don’t miss it!!!  & we’ll see you in Solartopia…..

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 11.09.23

LABOR RISING, VA UNDER FIRE, WHILE NUKES BANKRUPT GEORGIA

 

Our GREEP zoom #156 opens with the magnificent ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground tells us about the critical election in Virginia, showing us the astounding flood of money into these key races.  It’s an amazing show of the power of corrupt funding in what’s left of our democracy.

 

From the labor movement we then hear PATRICK CROWLEY, AARON WAZLAVEK and JAY PONTI fill us in powerful developments in the green economy as strikes proliferate throughout the nation.  The recent rise of organized labor is one of the great unexpected successes of the new century.

 

MYLA RESON and TATANKA BRICCA give us critical perspectives on all this.

 

Then WENDI LEDERMAN relates tells the horrifying on-going details of the Cop City assault on Atlanta, protestors and the actual law with a wave of brutal, illegal repression.

 

GEORGIA Public Service Commission candidate PATTY DURAND then explains in terrifying detail the horror show surrounding elections for the body that will decide who gets stuck with the $40 billion price tag for the insane Vogtle Nukes #3 & $4.  Patty has fought for years to make clear how incredibly corrupt the building of these two worthless, hugely expensive and utterly senseless atomic reactors.

 

The great DAVE KRAFT from Chicago then fills us in on the horrific nuclear politics of the Windy City and the attempt there to prevent new Small Modular Nuclear Reactors from plaguing the region.

 

DOROTHY REIK, LYNN FEINERMAN, RON LEONARD AND STEVEN SONDHEIM wrap us up with their usual brilliance as the horse race between Solartopia and Armageddon continues to enthrall us all.  NoNukes!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 11.02.23

ALL MOST NOW FOCUS ON THE DIABLO / NUKE CRISIS We focus in the GREEP Zoom #155 on the in-your-face crisis at California’s Diablo Canyon nuke reactors. While the 39-year-old Unit One is shut for refueling, a growing public movement demands the obvious—test this crumbling old nuke for embrittlement and much more BEFORE it’s allowed to re-open. After four decades of blasting heat, pressure and radiation, Diablo’s Reactor Pressure Vessels are fried to the point of shattering like glass should they be flooded with coolant water in an emergency. In other words….if the “brakes” are applied at uninsured Diablo during a major accident, the whole place will blow up. Steam, Hydrogen and fission explosions will blast apocalyptic radioactive cloud into the steady breezing blowing south to Los Angeles. Then it’ll go west into the Central Valley, then north to the Bay Area….and all across the continental United States. LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace explains how her long-lived, incredibly persistent group is fighting to keep Diablo shut in the court system, regulatory agency and Public Utilities Commission. As we learn from ROBERT FREEHLING and RON LEONARD among others, renewable energy has long since filled any possible supply gaps caused by Diablo’s closure. The billions in hand-outs being offered PG&E to stay open dwarf any help being given wind, solar, efficiency, etc which have already far outstripped nuclear power in price. Indeed, the nature of the grid now DEMANDS that base-load nuke supplies give way to flexible, cheaper, cleaner, safer and more reliable renewables. At the core of the issue, we seek the Plan B that will shut these nukes forever….in the midst of rumors Gov. Newsom may be “reconsidering” his insane decision to keep Diablo running.

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