Category Archives: Nuclear Energy

The Watershed

9/18/2008 – 11:28 am

Come gather ‘round people wherever you roam
As we prepare to bury the life we have known
And accept that from now there’ll be no going home
Your money’s no longer worth saving
The meat is all gone, we’re left nothing but bones
For the times, they are a changin’
Apologies to Bob Dylan, but my mind has been rewriting the [...]

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Growin’ Up

10/4/2007 – 12:58 pm

In the summer of 1979, a few months after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) staged the “No Nukes” concerts in New York City.
One of the acts, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, took the stage to a tremendous roar from the audience. Many [...]

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No New Nukes

8/23/2007 – 10:38 am

Now that George Bush and Dick Cheney are held in nearly-universal scorn, there seems to be a creeping complacency in America, that they’ve done all the harm they can and all we have to do is wait 17 months and the bozos will be gone.
That’s not true, there’s plenty of mischief still available to the [...]

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News From the (Warm) Front

5/31/2007 – 11:00 am

Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the nation’s leading expert on global warming, says we have less than 10 years to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. He made that statement last summer, the first anniversary is coming [...]

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