energy policy

Ecologist Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything, talks about energy wars, global climate change, the false solutions of natural gas, coal and nuclear power and points the way to a peaceful post-carbon future through efficiency, conservation and localization of decentralized renewable energy sources.

Dr. Donald Aitken ( http://www.donaldaitkenassociates.com/ ), physicist, solar architect and former lead scientist at the Union of Concerned of Concerned Scientists, talks about his certainty that we have all the tools and knowhow to make the shift to renewable energy sources right now.

Van Jones, Founder/Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ( http://ellabakercenter.org/ ) talks about his compelling moral vision for California to abandon its 'incarceration economy' for an 'innovation economy' and do an ecolgical U-turn on the four wheels of labor, progressive business, environmentalism and social justice.