Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

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!

Today we BURY THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS/POWER INDUSTRY as world-renown expert Bob Alvarez joins HarveyW at the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show TODAY at 3pm eastern time. We then talk INFAMOUS HIPPIE COMMUNES as Shel Horowitz and Bill Jacobson revisit the legendary Montague Farm, preserved since 1968 after helping birth the modern organic farming and No Nukes Movements.

PEACE, PROSPERITY AND GREEN-POWERED SOCIAL JUSTICE as NORMAN SOLOMON joins HarveyW at the SOLARTOPIA GREEN POWER & WELLNESS SHOW.  Norman's brilliant career as a peace, media and justice activist has spanned four decades.  His courageous groundbreaking trips to Baghdad with actor Sean Penn are the stuff of legend.  Norman's work on nuclear power and weapons, his gutsy candidacy for Congress, his extremely important critiques of the corporate/mainstream media have all helped change our world.  Don't miss this fast-paced, fun-filled hour with one of America's premier activists.

David Swanson, one of America's great peace activists, graces this Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show.  David joins Harvey to talk about the killing of Osama bin Laden and the imperial wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.  His brilliant research on the 1920s Kellogg-Briand Accord that brought peace to the planet for a precious two decades highlights an hour full of activism and hope as we look forward to a time when our nation moves beyond the military and into a green-powered age full of love and promise.