In an era where utility scale, 300-400 megawatt Concentrated Solar Thermal power plants are becoming common place, Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV)(or Concentrator Photovoltaic) proponents still seek their first 100 megawatts of commercial construction.

Robert Johnson is an economist who can be heard at www.therealnews.com. Les Leopold is an economist whose latest book is "The Looting of America."
"When they put out the forest fire, they favored the bankers" (Robert Johnson).
"A windfall tax on the $150 billion in 2009 Wall Street bonuses could go directly to job creation" (Les Leopold).

DISCUSSION: RACHEL CARSON "SILENT SPRING" - March 13, 2010 http://www.booktv.org/Watch/11326/Discussion+Rachel+Carson+Silent+Spring.aspx http://www.booktv.org Paul Driessen is author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death."
Linda Lear is author of the biography "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature." "We care more about our green lawns than about songbirds. Pesticides are persistent and can't be simply repressed. Birds and fish have injested pollutants. Humility and arrogance are part of our collective life story. We are not in control of nature and have to think of the whole of things, the interlocking nature of life.." RELATED LINK: "Trees have Standing" William O. Douglas, the longest serving Supreme Court justice (35 years), was an uncompromising civil libertarian and lover of life. Growing up in upstate New York, he grieved when lakes became cesspools. Lakes are not anti-freeze and mountains are more than landfill. Reducing nature to short-term profit is a blindness and path to anthropomorphic self-destruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas

"So far consumerism has been seen as an excess of vanity, that if you have forty pairs of shoes, two televisions etc.. But this is much more serious: rights are being consumed, needs are being consumed. If 20 percent of people and families are well-off, living in the civilization of comfort, there are 80 percent who do not have the basics. Consumerism is capitalist, and all the evil that is in capitalism is in consumerism"

Another world is possible and another economy is necessary!
Susan George is a TNI fellow, President of the Board of TNI and honorary president of ATTAC-France.

"Before the crisis, we were in a dream world; one in four American homeowners were under water. We had to write-down mortgages but failed. In 2010, we expect between 2-3 million foreclosures. We suspended the rules of capitalism to give more money to banks and thus undermined market discipline.
We need visions of what kind of financial system and what kind of economy we want. If our planet does not survive, a high GDP is not important.."
to hear Joseph Stiglitz interviewed by Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch director of Public Citizen, February 14, 2010, click on

John Yoo will be speaking in Baltimore 2/18 at 12:00 Noon. Location:
Offices of Miles & Stockbridge, PC
10 Light Street, 13th Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Please see details at link - looks like you'll be able to get into the event if you register from a boring email address and wear boring clothes. Note: John Yoo is much smarter than you are and gets shouted down all the time. Try to think of something creative.

The truth will make some of us free. Savvy businessmen with their financial products and financial innovations brought the world economy to the brink of collapse. Closing tax havens and shadow banking, redistribution from top to bottom and food security would help revive trust and the social contract. The crisis is a chance to abandon the myths of private vices becoming public virtues, corporate beneficence, nature as a free good, external and sink and the poor as a problem to be made invisible.