Report from Occupy Wall Street. Podcast

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Talking with David Buccola, who was there all day yesterday for the massive Shutdown Wall Street protests. Police craziness. Shutting down Zuccotti one day then kettling people in the next. But then tens of thousands came. This was far too many for them to control.

The “99%” and [...]

99% signs projected on Verizon building in Manhattan last night

Verizon Building in Lower Manhattan. The beam rolled through a series of words: “99% / mic check! / Look around / you are a part / of a global uprising / we are a cry / from the heart / of the world / we are unstoppable / another world is possible / happy [...]

California now has 1 GW of installed rooftop solar

green.blogs.nytimes.com

Installations of rooftop solar in California are booming, even in the middle of a nasty recession. The state just reached 1000 MW (1 GW) installed statewide, with 205 MW of that in 2011 alone. This cumulative total is more than all but a few countries. Primary among the reasons are the rapidly falling [...]

What a coincidence

Europe bans x-ray body scanners used at U.S. airports.

TSA puts off safety study of x-ray body scanners.

Occupy the power company

How can you help your community build a resilient energy system? One of the first steps is to buy back the energy system from the regional power company by condemning it and then municipalizing it

Boulder, Colorado is already doing this.

25,000 listening to Occupy Wall Street on Ustream now

http://www.ustream.tv/theother99

My grandfather and uncle were Wall Street investment bankers

Guess what, they were ethical and honest. My grandfather arranged loans to Finland after WWI and was given a medal by them for doing so. My uncle found investors for oil well drilling during the 1970′s, $10,000 minimum (a good chunk of money back then) and he wouldn’t take your money if he didn’t think [...]

Occupy Wall Street. Live stream

The missing $600 million at MF Global. Multiple choice test

Three weeks after MF Global cratered and nearly $600 million vanished into the ether out of supposedly sacrosanct customer accounts, hundreds of regulators and criminal investigators say they still have no freaking idea what happened or where the money went.

Multiple choice test.

That $600 million can disappear

a) is just one of those things [...]

Can Milwaukee become the Silicon Valley of water?

The city has 150 water technology companies, the biggest concentration in the world. And the world will be needing to get much smarter about water use soon.