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Let's take back our land from Big Oil!
What do you do with the land that's been destroyed by the fossil fuel industry? Well, turn it in to a solar farm of course! The Maywood Solar Farm in Indiana is 43 acres, and it's made up of 36,000 solar panels. And, it sits on the site of a former coal tar refinery plant, which was designated as a Superfund site by the EPA. Back in the 1980s, environmental regulatory officials found that the groundwater beneath that plant was contaminated with dangerous chemicals, and ruled that the property could no longer be used.
However, thanks to the EPA's new Superfund Redevelopment Project, that land is now one of 85 renewable energy projects that together produce 507 megawatts of clean, renewable power. And, toxic sites in Georgia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts could soon be doing the same. It's nearly impossible to undo the damage that chemical plants and fossil fuel development does to our environment, but this is a great way to make use of the land that they've destroyed. We should be expanding this program all over the country and breathing new life into devastated land by building solar and wind plants in every area that these industries have destroyed.
(What do you think? Tell us here.)
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Sweatshop Capitalism...who are the fattest cats in America? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
In for Thom tonight, please welcome America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Your Take / My Take Live: Call Pap LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (check local listings)
The Best of the Rest...
Victory for consumer rights- Julia Duncan, American Association for Justice 
Daily Take: Each one of us is a toxic super fund site...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: It's Wednesday, and it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Quote: "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." -- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric.
Hour Two: Anything goes!
Hour Three: America's 'cold war' against Russia- Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
Quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". attributed to Gandhi.
Update on South Sudan...The Honorable Tong Deng Aner, South Sudan Minister of Health, and Dr. Mayer Machut Ahiek, University of Juba, South Sudan join Thom in the studio
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Article: " Arms" by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language 1755.
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
In for Thom today, please welcome Leslie Marshall, host of the nationally syndicated Leslie Marshall Show.
Hour One: Women on birth control...destroying America?!- Pastor Steven Anderson, Faithful Word Baptist Church.
Hour Two: Bundy Ranch, Militias, Oath Keepers...oh my!- Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center
PLUS, Tea Party...still relevant?
Hour Three: GOP blocks minimum wage increase...now what?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the best of the rest of the news...all the news & information you won't be hearing from the corporate owned news media...
Plus, GOP votes down minimum wage hike...now what? We'll find out from Jesse Lessinger of the 15 Now Campaign...
Right here on...The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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On the Road Again
Tonight
May 1 - Seattle, WA 730pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, Seattle Town Hall. details
May 2 - Portland, OR 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, First Unitarian Church. details
May 3 - Portland, OR:
Thom’s TEDX talk - SOLD OUT.
May 10 - Northampton, MA 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, The Parlor Room. Free, but sign up at whmp.com
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Thom's Poll
Does Wall Street have too much power and influence?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/30/14: A Win for Voters in Wisconsin
Thom talks Thomas Piketty's new book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," with Richard Eskow of the Campaign for America's Future and the Lynchburg, VA crude oil spill with Cole Stangler of "In These Times." Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses the botched execution in Oklahoma, the striking down of Wisconsin's voter id law and Hawaii raising their minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the rise of right-wing militias in America.
Brunch with Bernie - April 30, 2014
Picketty Phenomenon
The Crisis in South Sudan
America's New Cold War?
The Thom Hartmann Program - April 30, 2014 pt 2
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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