Palo Verde: Nuclear Power in the Phoenix Backyard
With the tragedy occurring at the in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Complex in Japan, eyes turn to the power plants located in your backyard. As reported by the Associated Press, Palo Verde provides...
View ArticleSwitzerland Abandons Nuclear Power
The Swiss government just voted on Wednesday to abandon nuclear power in their country; their last reactor will finally go offline in 2034. The nation's five remaining nuclear power plants will slowly...
View ArticleSolar Startup Scores a Cool $737 Million for Thermal Energy
Talk about landing the Holy Grail of solar power. Santa Monica startup SolarReserve locked in $737 million in guaranteed loans from the U.S. Department of Energy last Thursday for its highly innovative...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana and Nuclear Free World = Economic Sustainability?
Britain's Guardian newspaper just published two very astute articles on different topics which both relate to our collective economic future. The first post, "Germany is Right to Opt Out of Nuclear",...
View ArticleNuclear Power, Japan and Hope
The United States national soccer team's dramatic come back in Germany last week against Brazil in the last seconds of the game is the stuff that legends are made of. The performance of the U.S....
View ArticleSan Onofre Nuclear Plant Helps Create International Blackout
On September 8th, 2011, just after 3:30 on a very hot summer afternoon, the entire electric power grid from Arizona to Mexico and southern California, went dark. A critical link in our nation's...
View ArticleSanctuary City: A Lesson in Creative Destruction
On this particular sunny day, in year two after the revolution, Trotsky and Cedar were holding class in the daisy meadow. In the long shadow of the shell of what never became a nuclear power plant, the...
View ArticleIs Hanford Nuclear Waste Dump Our Next Fukushima Disaster?
Did you know that Washington state's Hanford Nuclear site contains 2/3 of all the radioactive nuclear waste in the United States? In addition to having the dubious distinction of being the first...
View ArticleNuclear Radiation Leaking from California’s San Onofre Reactor
The San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down again this week, due to another radiation leak in one of its reactor's steam generators. The amount of radioactive water that was released is said to be...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Bombshell Documentary: Hubris, How Bush Lied the US into War
Those of us who do not remember history are forever condemned to repeat it. Could a movie prevent our nation from waging another deadly, unnecessary war? Rachel Maddow's new MSNBC documentary, HUBRIS:...
View ArticleHas Hanford Nuclear Site Already Leaked Millions of Gallons of Radioactive...
The most contaminated nuclear storage site in the United States has been leaking many hundreds of gallons of radioactive waste, and the deadly leakage may actually have been happening for years. Last...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Crumbling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Closes for Good
In a huge victory for both clean energy and environmental advocates, the Edison Power Company announced on Friday that its troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant will be permanently shuttered The post...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to Nuclear Power
It's the end of the world as we know it, but that is not a bad thing. This is the dawn of a new era in which the planet's residents finally realize that nuclear energy was a really bad idea. The...
View ArticleMore Illegally Dumped Radioactive Waste Found on Somalia’s Coast
Yesterday the BBC reported that radiation levels at the crippled Fukushima reactor site are ten million times normal levels. As the oceans near the damaged nuclear plant are becoming contaminated with...
View ArticleFloating Nuclear Power Plants in Arctic? 100% Safe Russia Says
Floating nuclear power plants in the Arctic? Apparently, Russia is building them. And, luckily, there is nothing to worry about. “We can absolutely guarantee the safety of our units one hundred...
View ArticleObama State of the Union Address 2011 [VIDEO]
Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address (full text) is important to us all because it is not only a critical reflection on where we stand today, but also on where we’re going, where we need to go,...
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