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Climate Change Solutions That Advance Illinois' Economy and Environment Together

Howard Learner | Posted 05.11.2013 | Green
Howard Learner

Saving energy saves consumers money. Less pollution means better public health and cleaner lakes and rivers for all. Why would anyone argue that it's somehow smart to waste energy and money?

Our Atomic Dominoes Are Falling

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.17.2013 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

The list of crippled, non-competitive and near-dead reactors lengthens daily. Few are more critical than San Onofre Units Two and Three, perched on an ocean cliff in the earthquake-tsunami zone between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Mighty Wind

Michael Brune | Posted 11.28.2012 | Green
Michael Brune

Remember red states and blue states? It turns out that it's the red ones that have the most to gain by investing in renewable energy.

Atomic Rate Rigging and the New China Syndrome

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.02.2012 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Small wonder the death knell of new U.S. nukes may be upon us. Two reactors proposed for Florida will now, say its would-be builders, cost $24 billio...

Obama's Atomic Solyndra?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.18.2012 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Let's relieve the president of this radioactive burden. Let's kill these reactors before they kill us, and take the most significant leap of all toward a green-powered Earth.

Nuclear Power's Green Mountain Grassroots Demise

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.20.2012 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

If the citizens of Vermont can shut Yankee, a dam will be breached and the post-Fukushima power of a rising grassroots tsunami will be made tangible. Solartopia will be that much closer.

2012 Is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 03.04.2012 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Fukushima has taught us that as long as reactors operate, the apocalyptic clock is ticking. With that in mind, and with the flow of green money turning into a financial tsunami, we can make 2012 the year nuke power finally dies.

Energy Department's Top Efficiency Programs Save Money and Create Jobs

Brian Keane | Posted 02.05.2012 | Green
Brian Keane

How is that all of us today are living in homes that are much more efficient than the homes we grew up in.... yet we're all using more energy? The answer lies within each of us. It's how we use energy -- and how we waste it.

Obama's $36 Billion Nuke-Powered Giveaway

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Barack Obama's 2012 budget marks a major escalation in the nuclear war against a green-powered future, whose advocates are already fighting back.

America's Eggshell Nukes

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made it clear that America's 104 licensed atomic power reactors are not accidents waiting to happen. They are accidents in progress.

Another Feeble-Headed Nuke Drops Dead

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

For years reactor backers have touted the "Pebble Bed" design as an "inherently safe" alternative to traditional models. Now its South African developers say they're done pouring money into it.

Corporate Apocalypse vs. Solartopian Survival

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

The corporate structure that rules our world must be replaced with a means of organization that serves people and the planet, not the reverse.

Obama's Atomic Blunder

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not.

Green Power. Who's Buying and Where is it Headed?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jonathan A. Schein

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its quarterly rankings of the nation's top green power purchasers, with Intel Corporation leading th...

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

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

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 ecological survival.

A Blue-Moon Baby-Boom 64th Solartopian Birthday

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Only with peace can we win a true democracy based on social justice. The question of how many humans our planet can sustain will be answered with the empowerment of women.

Tom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

"Real men" -- and women -- know we will never get to a green-powered Earth by trying to ride a dead radioactive horse -- even if it's French.

Geothermal Heat Pumps: Are They Right For Your Home?

Climate Progress | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Baseload geothermal power gets all the attention because it has such enormous potential for delivering low-carbon 24/7 power. But geothermal heat pu...

3 Steps To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint By Half

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

While every person's footprint is a bit different, one thing is true for everyone: You can reduce your carbon footprint by half (or more!) with these ...

The GOP's 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

The GOP makes atomic energy the centerpiece of its strategy to deal with climate change.

A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

once we've wiped the Earth clean of fossil and nuclear generators, we could install sufficient renewable resources to run the planet without a blink in the lights.

The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

The Four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it has a solution, the solution is winnable, and winning requires a "middle path" of action that is both non-violent and non-stop.

Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Nulear reactor backers got Congress to pass the 1957 Price-Anderson Act to protect utilities from all but a tiny portion of the potential damage. That all melt-down liability on the federal government, meaning you and me.

How Chernobyl Could Happen Here

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Harvey Wasserman

Chernobyl "can't happen here" only if the reactors are turned off before they kill again.

A Los Angeles Trend Worth Following for Earth Day (Video)

Nathan Havey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Nathan Havey

The City of Los Angeles set a goal to get 20% of its power from renewable sources by 2010.