SchwartzReport: Blue Energy – Solar on the Sea & Osmotic Power

Yet another creative variant of solar. Japan is a country where only 11.65% of the land is really suitable for agriculture. They don’t have the land to spare for big installations. Particularly with the loss of the Fukushima area, a loss that was both physical and psychological. Solution: take solar to sea. Japan is building …

SchwartzReport: Hawaii Goes 100% Renewable –

Although people like the Koch brothers are doing all they can to keep us mired in the carbon age, the future is non-carbon, and here is some very good news as to how that is happening. Hawaii Enacts Nation’s First 100 Percent Renewable Energy Standard

SchwartzCourt: French Court Rules Water a Right, Unconstitutional to Cut Off Water to Anybody

In the United States uber-rich individuals and the corporations they control are trying to privatize municipal water systems, and we are already — as in Detroit — cutting off the water service to poor people. In France they are going in a very different direction. French Court Rules It Is Unconstitutional To Cut Off Water …

SchwartzReport: 50% of Older Americans Have No Retirement Income

401(k)s, a scheme devised by financial interests to milk the middle class and promoted by the Republic Party, like all trickle down Randian economic schemes, have proven to be a disaster. Here is the real story; it isn’t pretty, and it is hardly acknowledged by American corporate media. But its impact is going to be …