Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Green Power And Wellness - Bob Alvarez - 6/3/14

 The challenge of dealing with RADIOACTIVE WASTE has reached a tipping point with the failure of New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Project in a fire that has rendered the multi-billion-dollar facility all but useless.  We talk with long-time researcher BOB ALVAREZ, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies about the unsolvable problem of rad waste storage from both weapons and power reactors.

Alvarez also guides us through the amazing history of Dr. Alice Stewart, Dr. Ernest Sternglass and Dr. John Gofman, who against all odds alerted humankind to the DANGERS OF RADIATION EXPOSURE and the folly of using x-rays on pregnant women, of testing atomic bombs in the Earth's atmosphere, and of operating commercial reactors anywhere on this planet.

We owe them an incalculable debt, with millions of lives saved.  We thank Bob for supporting them during key moments of the battle over this critical research, and for gracing our show with this important discussion of the origins of credible research on radiation and human health.  

Green Power And Wellness - The Green Transition - 5/27/14

The GREAT GREEN TRANSITION is explained by global carbon expert CHARLES KOMANOFF whose grasp of the world energy situation is unmatched.  Charles talks to us about the CARBON TAX and the on-going decline in per capita miles driven by Americans.  His www.carbontax.org website lays out the details of the critical transition we must make to federal taxation of carbon emissions and how that'll effect both our economy and our climate.

Charles also explains German's great ENERGIEWENDE, the transition to a green-powered Solartopian economy where all fossil fuels and nuclear power are being phased out.  The astonishing success of this movement is transforming the future of energy worldwide, in part by driving down the cost of solar panels.  But as the world's fourth-largest economy shows it can be done, Charles Komanoff explains for us the compelling and profitable implications for the green-powered world to come.

Green Power And Wellness - DR. BOB FITRAKIS - 5/20/14

MEDICAL MARIJUANA and INDUSTRIAL HEMP are the prime topics with legendary activist, publisher and radio host DR. BOB FITRAKIS.  Bob is at the heart of the movements in Ohio to make marijuana more readily available to those who need and want it, and to the farmers now demanding the right to grow this great industrial crop.

We also discuss the realities of Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich, almost certain to be a serious candidate for the Republican nomination to the presidency.  Kasich has made it clear he's running for the White House and would be a very likely choice to run with someone like Jeb Bush.

We finally cover the travesty of voter rights and lack thereof in Ohio and the on-going campaign by Secretary of State John Husted to further the Jim Crow tradition of eliminating non-Republican voters.  A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT is now in the works to guarantee the right to vote in Ohio.  Bob tells us how it might succeed and impact EVERYONE'S right to vote all over the nation.

Green Power And Wellness -STEFANIE SPEAR - 5/13/14

We are joined by STEFANIE SPEAR the editor, publisher and founder of ECOWATCH.COM, the pure green internet site full of the latest breaking news and features on all things environmental.

Stef talks with us about sustainability and her recent trip to Denmark's Samso Island, where a community of some 3800 people is making the successful transition to total energy self-sufficiency.   With 21 windmills the community already generates more electricity than it uses, and is on schedule to completely convert all its consumption away from any trace of fossil/nukes.  

Stef also tells us about the Oberlin Project, which is converting this northern Ohio college town to a totally green economy, including a large green art district.  

As one of the world's leading eco-writer/editors, this hour just flies by with its sustainable, fact-based pathways to a real and true Solartopian future.   

Green Power and Wellness: BIKES! BIKES BIKES! with Charles Komanoff

BIKES!  BIKES!  BIKES!  we talk with CHARLES KOMANOFF one of the great pioneers in the urban cycling movement, dating back to the 1970s and the rise of bicycle/people power in Manhattan. 

Charlie has been present at the creation of some of the great breakthroughs in the amazing spread of bike commuting and transport now a factor in hundred of cities all over the world.  He tells us of the two-wheeler's transformational impact on "Livable Streets"... and as the machine that makes human beings the most energy efficient of all animals on this planet.

The bicycle is, after all, the device that won the Vietnam War, and may ultimately help us win the war to save this planet as well, thanks in no small part to the savvy, articulate advocacy of folks like Charlie Komanoff.  Listen in as he glides through it all in the tones of one who knows….

Green Power And Wellness - Neville Williams - 4/29/14

SOLAR POWER is now a $100 billion industry, and NEVILLE WILLIAMS has been present at the creation.  His new SUN POWER tells the riveting story of his evolution from a Vietnam War correspondent to a solar entrepreneur who helped start two very successful green companies.  One of those companies has fit more than 100,000 homes in India with panels that give them their light.  Another has done tens of millions of dollars worth of installations throughout our nation's capital.

Neville's personal acquaintance with the great Arthur C. Clarke and his decades of amazingly effective work in the solar business make for great radio listening---and for some real guidelines on how to plunge into an industry whose Childhood's End is very much at hand….with trillions of dollars about to be made while saving the Earth for generations to come.  

Green Power And Wellness - Michael Mariotte - 4/22/14

We celebrate EARTH DAY in Solartopia with the great MICHAEL MARIOTTE, president of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service and editor of the GREENWORLD Blog.

Michael's unique expertise takes us on a tour of the collapsing nuclear power industry in Europe, the US and Japan while we ride on the astonishing rise of the global renewable energy industry.  As Michael points out, it's now cheaper in many parts of the United States to solar on your rooftop and leave the grid altogether than it is to stay with the dying fossil-nuke dinosaur.

As we celebrate our planet, don't miss hearing from a life-long activist whose unique power & expertise has helped make our staying much more feasible.

Green Power And Wellness - INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE - 4/15/14

We dissect the monumental study by the INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE with solar pioneer SCOTT SKLAR and TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service.  This authoritative survey by the IPCC has offered a powerful endorsement of renewable energy as the ultimate solution to our climate chaos, and Scott and Tim explain how.

In particular, the IPCC warns that the world must take action very quickly to save our climate balance, but that with renewables and efficiency it can be done.  It lays out many of the serious problems with atomic power and should help put to bed the false notion that nukes can help.  

In fact, both Tim and Scott lay out the details of why the transition we must make leaves nukes in their radioactive dust.

Don't miss this definitive dive into the devastating details of why climate change is real and how renewables can solve the problems that atomic energy has made so much worse.

Green Power And Wellness - PETER SCHEER - 4/8/14

TRUTHDIG.COM Managing Editor PETER SCHEER joins us for a free-range romp through today's political scene, from Barack Obama and the politics of race to nuclear power, global warming and the grim realities of the Los Angeles "River" and its desperate restoration.

Peter manages one of America's few remaining independent news outlets, a lively, eclectic website that has somehow survived the winds of change at the intersect between the internet and the news biz.  From Jerry Brown to Hillary Clinton and beyond, this show follows suit.  It's open talk radio the way Solartopia means it to be.   

Green Power And Wellness - INDISPUTABLE PROOF THAT PEOPLE HAVE DIED AT THREE MILE ISLAND - 4/1/14

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These are the world's leading researchers on the health impacts from atomic radiation as manifested around commercial reactors.  Their peer-reviewed studies show definitively that when nuclear reactors shut, the health of the downwind human population improves.  That radiation from FUKUSHIMA has impacted human beings throughout the United States.  That CHERNOBYL has killed at least a million people around the world.  And that the commercial reactors don't need to melt down and explode to destroy the health of the people living near by.

Next time someone tells you atomic energy is safe, send them to listen to Joe and Janette for this definitive hour deep in the heart of Solartopia….