Don't Nuke The Climate campaign at Department of Energy

The Don't Nuke the Climate campaign took to the streets in Washington, DC today, with a little street theatre outide the Department of Energy. "A Christmas Peril," a parody of "A Christmas Carol," was performed by representatives from Beyond Nuclear, Friends of the Earth, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen and others. Tomorrow, December 12 is an international day of action on climate, in conjunction with the Copenhagen climate summit. Watch for more actions on the Don't Nuke the Climate Web site. See more photos from our street theater at Public Citizen's "Flkr" account. Also, more photos are posted at Jeff Crespi's gallery, our friend from WRYR Radio in Shady Side, Maryland, which sent correspondent Mike Shay to capture audio from the street theater. Here is the full script. And Public Citizen has posted video at YouTube.

Powering a Green Planet: Sustainable Energy, Made Interactive

Scientific American has posted a rich-media presentation (note the cityscape shown is Chicago on the Lake Michigan shore -- unfortunately currently 80% nuclear electrified!) of its feature article "A Path to a Sustainable Energy by 2030" (Nov. 2009). Many of these same arguments and insights were first made by Dr. Arjun Makhijani in his 2007 book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.



Nuclear weapons-free Takoma Park now also nuclear power-free

Thanks to an initiative launched by Beyond Nuclear in December 2008, the nuclear-free City of Takoma Park now truly lives up to its name. Long a nuclear weapons-free city, Takoma Park opted in June 2009 to purchase 100% wind power, dispensing with both nuclear and fossil fuel to create a truly carbon-free and nuclear-free city. Beyond Nuclear provides more details in its December 17, 2009 press release.

50,000 nuclear opponents deliver the message in Copenhagen

More than a dozen NGOs participating in the international “Don’t Nuke the Climate” campaign presented government delegates on Tuesday with a giant postcard and 50,000 signatures calling for a nuclear-free climate agreement. The NGOs were joined by prominent Green figures including two former Environment Ministers of France, Yves COCHET (French MP), and Corinne LEPAGE (MEP) ; MEP, International alter-globalization movement leader Jose BOVE , and MEP Yannick JADOT, Claude Turmes, Margrete Auken , Italian MP Angelo Bonelli, Roberto della Seta and Francesco Ferrante.