J.R. DeShazo at Luskin Center talks about new City of Los Angeles solar program

J.R. DeShazo, Director of the Luskin Center at UCLA and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning there, talks about a new program in support of distributed solar generation recently instituted by the City of Los Angeles, recorded from Westwood, California, on June 12, 2012

Gunther Mothes at Spicewind Pacific Group on bio-fuel investment opportunity in the Marshall Islands

Gunther Mothes, principal and general Manager at Spicewind Pacific Group, talks about his company’s search for $5.5 million to start up the production of sustainable and renewable bio-fuels from coconut oil, palm fronds, and algae grown in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, recorded from Corona, California, on June 11, 2012.

Twelve Minutes of Dr. Stanton Glantz on Proposition 29

Dr. Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, talks about the campaign to pass Proposition 29, the California Cancer Research Act, including its impact on the incidence of smoking, its ability to replace lagging federal medical research funds, how its passage will prevent the sending out of state of massive amounts of money to tobacco companies, and how the retention of that money will help the California economy and jobs situation, recorded from San Francisco, California, on May 26, 2012.

Marc’s interview with Engels

Etopia News reporter Marc Strassman talks to Gregory Engels, co-chairman of Pirate Parties International and international coordinator of the Piratenpartei Deutschland (Pirate Party of Germany), about the Pirates’ success in Germany, the reasons for that success, the role of the Internet in Pirate operations, and how the Party intends to remain deeply democratic, recorded from Offenbach, Germany, on May 23, 2012.