An Array of Utopian Flowers
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A Global Perspective on Permaculture Design with Warren Brush
Posted on November 19, 2021 | 1 Comment - Greening Without Gentrification: Expanding Parks and Protecting Communities
Posted on November 12, 2021 | No Comments - Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields, The Veteran-Farmer Movement
Posted on November 5, 2021 | No Comments - Deadly Waters – Oil Spills & The Future of Offshore Drilling
Posted on October 29, 2021 | No Comments - Criminalizing Activism – Steven Donziger vs Chevron
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
SONGS Archive
Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval
Posted on August 14, 2019 | 3 CommentsCarry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern California and have stewarded and inhabited this region for roughly 12,000 years.
Loose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre
Posted on April 9, 2018 | 1 CommentToonman Collamer opines: Work crews transferring radioactive spent fuel (nuclear waste) at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters, prompting Southern California Edison to temporarily halt the relocation effort. -- Los Angeles TimesDecommissioning San Onofre: Money Over Meltdown
Posted on May 13, 2014 | 1 CommentSan Onofre’s nuclear reactors are permanently shut down. However, Southern California Edison has left tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste that will remain on site for decades, if not longer. San Onofre’s spent fuel contains 89 times the amount of radiation (Cesium-137) released from Chernobyl. What is being done to rectify this situation?Nuclear: Vermont Yankee to Close, 22 Fukushimas Still Threaten US
Posted on August 30, 2013 | No CommentsThe Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country and the subject of heated battles over the decades, will close late next year. This would leave the US with 99 operating reactors. Four reactors in Georgia and South Carolina are under construction, and the Tennessee Valley Authority is finishing a fifth in Tennessee. But the industry is in a period of rapid decline.San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: 8.4 Million Rejoice – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 6, 2013 | 1 Comment8.4 million people, put at risk for radioactive disaster from a meltdown at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, now rejoice as Southern California Edison announces its closure.Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 27, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhile large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison's artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?Show Goes on in Bid to Restart Leaking Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsFor darn sure don't mention that cancerous creaky ol'nuke plant you were so handsomely paid to cheer for. Because talk of radioactivity at home, in the workplace, or at your kid's school, ruins an otherwise perfect day, no matter what.Death By Pellet – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsThere are 1,400 tons of these little monsters, cooling in San Onofre Nuke Plant's leaky, creaky, earthquake prone, tsunami threatened, God knows what else could go wrong at America's Worst Nuclear Workplace Environment, right here in Southern Cal.Earthquakes at San Onofre: The Elephant in the Room
Posted on October 27, 2012 | 1 CommentSan Onofre Nuke Plant was designed for a 7.0 earthquake, but sits next to a fault with an 8.0 earthquake probability — 10 times stronger and long overdue.Nuclear Fission: In the Beginning, It All Looked So Simple
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsNuclear Regulatory Commission & Edison host a town hall to discuss San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station's (SONGS's) status in its current Shut Down mode, due to systemic tube leaks in its new reactors. The experts scratch their heads as to why.Keeping Our Lights On and Nukes Off – A Plan – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 12, 2012 | 1 CommentThere's no way on God's green earth, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) can fix 19,454 (per dome) rotting pipes, without a plumbing overhaul of nuclear proportions, keeping its creaky ol'double boilers shut down for years, or maybe decades. Good.FUBAR is San Onofre Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 16, 2012 | No CommentsAnalysis of San Onofre Nuke Plant degenerating pipes (leaking!!!), where the process of super heating water via nuclear fission, then pumping the crazy-hot radioactive liquid thru thousands of pipes to create steam, to turn a turbine, to make electricity, is cracking SONGS' pipes / FUBAR. Or snafu'd. Take your pick.San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station: Fukushima Lessons not Learned
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsArnie Gunderson: The future of nuclear energy in California is over the "design basis" of Diablo Canyon and SONGS. Computer programs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission calculates cost and benefits of nuclear minimize risks of earthquake and tsunami.Nuclear Waste: San Onofre’s Heavy Lament By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 4 CommentsSouthern California residents are right to worry about the storage of "spent" fuel-rods at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi melts-thru to who knows where. To what horrific end, no one can predict.The 20 Percent Solution to Nuclear Power
Posted on March 25, 2011 | 1 CommentThe simple-sane solution: don't create electricity by super heating plutonium. It's deadly crazy. Instead, let the sun, wind, or ocean waves light your kitchen, bedroom, patio, hot-tub, playroom or office. Even your car.San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – The Scariest Workplace in the USA – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 17 CommentsReading this will upset a bunch of folks living near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, called SONGS, between Orange and San Diego Counties, California. Because as far as I can tell, the truth percolating inside SONGS nuke plant ain't getting out.Nuclear Regulatory Smackdown at San Onofre
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 1 CommentPrecedent for closing San Onofre Nuke Plant: It's age and human fallibility managing an outdated plant fast approaching its 2013 expiration date.
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