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Will Obama-Mania Take Us to Solartopia? YES WE CAN!

A Solartopian, Green-Powered Earth?YES WE CAN!A solution to global warming?YES WE CAN!!The birth of a world economy built totally on renewable energy and increased efficiency?YES WE CAN!  ......

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A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama

A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obamaby Harvey WassermanAmidst the ecstasy of the Obama Inauguration, there lurks great danger.  Merely inugurating a brilliant young leader who...

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Obama's Excellent Atomic Omission

Two lethal words went thankfully unspoken in President Obama's address to the nation---atomic energy.Unfrotunately, two others---"clean coal"---were included.  

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Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile?

Is this the end of the age of the automobile?As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad.But the larger picture says that the financial crisis...

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Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island

Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker.  They both killed people.But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-dow, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate...

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Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes?

The nuke power industry is back at the pubic trough for the fourth time in two years demanding $50 b illion in loan guarantees to build new reactors.  

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The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia

The Eight Green Steps to Solartopia The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us.     Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths:  we have a global crisis, it...

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The NYTimes Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes

In a devastating pair of financial reports that might be called "The Emperor Has No Pressure Vessel," the New York Times has blazed new light on the catastrophic economics of atomic power.The two...

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A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia

Harvey:  It’s an honor to be with the author of Ecotopia, which inspired me and so many others to become active on environmental issues.  It also inspired me to write Solartopia, What I’d like to talk...

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Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island &"Lamar's Folly" in the Climate Bill

Technicians who knew what was happening shook with terror as Walter Cronkite opened his March 28, 1979, newscast.

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Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG

Van Jones has been fed to King CONG (Coal, Oil Nukes & Gas).

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Tom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique

France's atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame.  

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That Nobel Screams: "OUT OF AFGHANISTAN & GO FOR SOLARTOPIA!"

Above the din, the Nobel message screams: "U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, & GO FOR SOLARTOPIA!"It's now up to US to use that Nobel to win that dual prize.

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Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil/Nuked?

Is the Climate Bill morphing into an excuse to promote fossil fuels and new nuclear power plants?

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Still More Fluff, Lies & Radiation from TMI & the New Nuke Media Machine

Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors.The two are inseparable.

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What's the Carbon/Health Footprint of Another Senseless War?

The Afghan War may now doom our ability both to cope with the global climate crisis and to fairly deliver health care in this country.If Barack Obama announces an escalation, Copenhagen and the Climate...

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Curbing Carbon's Just the Tip of Our Great Green Leap

The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive.Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and...

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A Quiet but HUGE No Nukes Triumph

As the Copenhagen climate talks collapsed, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory moved us closer to a green-powered Earth.It happened in upstate New York, where the Unistar Nuclear Energy...

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Our Blue-Mooned Baby-Boomed 64th Birthday Baptism

“Will you still need me?  Will you still feed me?....” --the BeatlesThe moment has come.  The first Baby Boomer cohort has turned 64  It officially happened on midnight December 31-January 1, 2009-10.I...

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Will Obama Guarantee a New Reactor War?

Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vast expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.

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