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As Greece teeters on the edge of default and the European Union inches closer to financial meltdown, tens of thousands of people gather across Europe and the US to demand economic justice and an end to big bank-dominated politics. Tonight on Political Analysis, SolarTimes editor (www.solartimes.org) Sandy LeonVest brings PRN listeners up to date on the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, and offers an overview of the revolutionary mood that is currently gripping the US -- and the rest of the world.
During the second half of Political Analysis, author and renewable energy advocate Paul Gipe talks to Sandy LeonVest about why the US needs German-like feed-in tariffs to incorporate a simpler, more comprehensive renewable energy policy -- one that achieves greater renewable energy development at a lower cost than the current system -- and offers greater economic and social benefits (such as local ownership). That, says Paul Gipe, is why the debacle over solar firm Solyndra is only a sideshow to the central issue of implementing renewable energy at the scale needed if the US is to wean itself from fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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