Part 1 Post November 7 Election Coverage:
OHIO GOP ATTACKS CHOICE/POT REFERENDA; CENSORSHIP ON THE MIDDLE EAST; GRASSROOTS WIN IN VA

We open our greep zoom #157 with TATANKA BRICCA’s brief journey into the world of Unidentified Flying Objects (now become Unidentified Airborne Phenomena) and a new federal agency confirming what officials have denied for decades.

STEVE CARUSO then updates us on the monumental popular victories in Ohio approving referenda on a woman’s right to choose and legalizing pot.But as Steve tells us, the gerrymandered right-wing Ohio legislature wants to overturn both popular votes. 

This truly astounding attack on democracy itself comes prior to a widely expected new assault on fair redistricting, which the public has repeatedly endorsed, but which the state’s GOP simply does not want to accept.

DENNIS BERNSTEIN then joins LYNNE FEINERMAN, MYLA RESON and others to take us through the horrifying deathscape of the Middle East war and the press censorship surrounding it.

Finally, ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground explains the truly earth-shattering victories of grassroots organizing in Virginia. 

“We made history in Virginia,” says Miller, with huge jumps in young, black and female representation in the former capital of the Confederacy.

By all accounts, the kinds of organizing central to the GREEP calls made the difference in Virginia.  Join us to hear how!!

Part 2 Energy:

A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al.

Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy.

We start with LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace, who updates us on the multi-front fight to shut California’s Diablo Canyon Nukes.

The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor scam. 

NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012.

That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed.

NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam.

But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed.

Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy.

Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says.

Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says.

 In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds.

With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals.

New grid materials brighten the equation.

Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production.

Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables.

“Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental.

Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes.

JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion.

We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power.

Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars.

At the end we learn it’s Amory’s birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering.

Don’t miss it!!!  & we’ll see you in Solartopia…..