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Energy

Finding innovative solutions to supplying efficient, clean, safe, renewable and reliable energy for electrical power, transportation, heating and cooling. We look at problems created from the addiction to dirty fossil fuel energy, mountaintop removal and ecosystem disruption, global climate change, severe air and water pollution, and community dislocation and pollution, Extreme methods such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), tar sands, hydroelectric dams and other damaging methods and sources are examined.

Climate, Environmental Issues

Confronting Wildfire: Retrofit Communities, Not Forests

September 17, 2018 by Guest Columnist 2 comments

As California continues with massive wind-driven, high-intensity wildfires that often turn deadly, the governmental and institutional response has been to thin forests and “grind up vegetation” to fight fires. Naomi Pitcairn points to a movement by plant community and wildfire experts led by the Richard Halsey of the Chaparral Institute to focus on protecting vulnerable communities rather than trying to control nature, which now faces extreme heatwaves and droughts from an unpredictable greenhouse-gas-warmed climate.

Nuclear

San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound

September 4, 2018 by The Outpost 1 comment

Since it was closed for safety violastions in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom. Listen to this EcoJustice Radio interview with activists from Public Watchdogs explain how the nuclear waste being buried on the beach poses serious dangers to California.

Rise for Climate, Los Angeles, SoCal 350

Climate, Politics and Advocacy

Rise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8

August 22, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

On September 8, the international Rise for Climate Day of Action is bringing people together for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, calling on governments, corporations, and organizations to initiate aggressive action on climate change, protect frontline communities, and create good jobs in the clean energy economy. Join us to Rise Together in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 8, in solidarity with events in San Francisco and around the globe that same day.

Nuclear

San Onofre Beach as Permanent Nuclear Waste Dump

August 7, 2018 by The Outpost 3 comments

According to a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief, the beach in front of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station could become a permanent nuclear waste dump. Learn why Edison’s program of storing deadly nuclear waste on the beach is not a “temporary” plan. And cartoonist Jerry Collamer weighs in.

Nuclear

Loose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre

April 9, 2018 by Jerry Collamer 1 comment

Toonman 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 Times

Climate, Earth

Anthropocene Arrives, Climate Collapses, and No One Cares

February 17, 2018 by The Outpost 2 comments

Clive Hamilton writes on how governments, people, corporations, the world continues to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy.

Climate, EcoJustice Radio

Montecito Mudslides, Climate Chaos Impact Chumash People – EcoJustice Radio

February 9, 2018 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Marcus Lopez Senior, member of the Barbareno Chumash Nation in California, speaks with Jack Eidt from SoCal 350 on climate chaos and the impacts on the Chumash people from fires, mudslides, colonization, land theft, gentrification, and offshore drilling.