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Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants Worldwide. There has Been a Global Rejection of Atomic Energy...The People That ACTUALLY Sign Contracts to Build New Power Plants all say NO NUKES!

Solar, Wind and Hydro are Cheaper, Faster to Build and Safer... The Only Good Thing about Nuclear Power is It PROVIDES PEOPLE WITH JOBS MAKING YOUTUBE VIDEOS PROMOTING NUCLEAR POWER... No Actual Work in Engineering New Plants... Plenty of Work Cleaning Up Old Plants When They Close...  Look at the Disaster at Vogtle. Over Budget, Late... 

I Saw a Video on Youtube That Asked the Question: Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? Answer: No. 

The Engineers at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD have Completely Abandoned Nuclear Power. WHY ARE THE EXPERTS REJECTING THIS FAILED TECHNOLOGY? Because it Costs $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up Diablo Canyon and San Onofre... Solar, Wind and Hydro are VASTLY CHEAPER and SAFER... The REAL People That sign REAL Construction Contracts for Power Plants all say NO NUKES! What About all that Solid Waste that Has to Be Stored Safely for 10,000 Years? HUH? Got a CLUE about What we should do with that? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ


Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl. Please Pass this Idea on to Your Elected officials... Massive Federal Funding Needed.

Link to Your US Senators: 
Link to Your US House Representative:


solar powered desalinization factory diagram gvan42 greg vanderlaan
Diagram of How to Build a Solar Powered Desalinization Factory

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

NO NUKES! Biden's Infrastructure Plan Includes Taxpayer Funding for Nuclear Power Plants. THAT'S CRAZY!


No Nukes on Farmville Game


I Wrote to President Biden, Both My Senators and My Congressman and Said:

"No Nukes! President Biden Admits That There Will Be Funding for Nuclear Power Plants included in the Infrastructure Bill. That's Insane. The Rest of the Bill Sounds Great but... Spending  Taxpayer Money on a Technology that has been Proven to be a Failure is Not Wise. The Engineers at PG&E, SMUD and SoCal Edison Have Completely Given Up on Nuclear Power.  However... It's Costing the Customers $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up Diablo Canyon and San Onofre....  Please Remove all Funding for Nuclear Power From this Bill." 

Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California
Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned
Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka, California

White House Wants Nuclear in Clean Energy Mandate, McCarthy Says... Nuclear energy should be one of the power sources eligible for a national clean energy mandate sought by the White House as part of its infrastructure plan, presidential climate adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters.

McCarthy’s remarks on Thursday came amid concern about the carbon-free fuel source from progressives and some environmentalists who have qualms about radioactive waste and uranium mining for reactor fuel.

Inclusion of nuclear in the so-called Clean Energy Standard, which requires the generation of clean power, could be a boon for companies including NuScale Power LLC, TerraPower LLC, Westinghouse Electric Co., General Electric Co., and Exelon Corp.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/white-house-wants-nuclear-in-clean-energy-mandate-mccarthy-says

  Source: https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/

Innovation: Drive dramatic cost reductions in critical clean energy technologies, including battery storage, negative emissions technologies, the next generation of building materials, renewable hydrogen, and advanced nuclear – and rapidly commercialize them, ensuring that those new technologies are made in America.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-investments-included-in-Bidens-American-Jo

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We need to Undo the Disaster at the EPA... tRUMP Has Reversed It's Mission... It's Now the Enable Polluters Agency... The Damage of tRUMP's Policies Could Last for Decades, Centuries or Maybe FOREVER...

Feel Free to Share any Words or Pictures You See Here... 
Just Copy and Paste into Social Media or Your own BLOG... 

tRUMP's Business Model is Borrow Money and Default... Invest in Loser Real Estate Projects... and then Borrow More... THAT WHAT HE'S DOING WITH THE ENTIRE US ECONOMY... as Congress Passes ANOTHER $484 Billion Dollar Giveaway to the Rich... 

Solar - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

Ecology MEME - Earthday - Everyday - gvan42

Ecology MEME - Earthday - Everyday - gvan42

Ecology MEME - Earthday - Everyday - gvan42

Ecology MEME - Earthday - Everyday - gvan42

Buying Used Stuff at Thrift Stores DOES NOT CAUSE ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE Like Buying New Stuff Does. When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

Oddly, I Expressed These Opinions during a Group Discussion at an Ecology Class at Humboldt State University and ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS SAID I WAS WRONG... They said that Used Stuff Still Requires Ecological Damage to Exist at All... I tried to explain that the Manufacturing Damage Happened IN THE PAST and it is impossible to Change History but Buying New Stuff CAUSES Purchasing Agents at Corporations to Hire People to Create New Stuff IN THE FUTURE to Fill the Shelves At The Store. No One Grasped the Concept. But I Did Make The Other Students Think. and That's a Good Thing. It's a difficult concept... I Wish I Could Explain it in a Shorter Sentence... Maybe YOU can Re-Write the Concept Better and Post it in the Comments Section... Thanks!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want. Get More or Want Less. and... You Can Get More Stuff Per Dollar At The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop... or Your Own Store... Did You Know that There is a Fashion "Thing" where Corporations PRE-RIP Clothes? Intentionally Making Them LOOK USED! Really! They Hire People to Rub Jeans over Rough Surfaces to SIMULATE Wear and Tear of Normal Use... I'm Not Making This UP! All the Pathetic Dupes are Wearing Clothes Like That! On My Own Webstore... I Offer Hats that have been "Distressed" to look like they are Old... It's an Option... I wish I could write a Mocking Slogan Poking Fun at this Fashion Trend... Then I Could Sell a Hat with That Saying... Sort of like the Question: "Can You Imagine a World Without Hypothetical Situations?" or The Page that says: "This Page Is Left Blank Intentionally." A Cosmic Haiku Slogan... I do sell a Hat that says "PRESS" so people can wear it at Protest Marches and Avoid Being Bashed on the Head By The Police... I Do Not Really Know if It REALLY Helps Avoid Police Violence... I Do Know That People Made T-Shirts Saying "Backstage Pass - Shoreline Amphitheater - Bill Graham Productions" and Used them to sneak past Security Guards... I admire the Guy that Made a Sign that Says "This is a Sign." Was That Absurdist Theater or End Times Warning?


"Life is More Complex than a Slogan on a Hat."


ecology protest sign - clean energy - gvan42
We Raced to The MOON.
Let's Race to CLEAN ENERGY

LINK: Skolstrejk för klimatetat #ClimateStrike - Protest Online Using "digital strikes" Instead of Mass Rallies in the Streets - Take Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”



Friends of the Earth Action Wrote me this Email... https://foeaction.org/
The first Earth Day led to the creation of the EPA and our country’s bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Now, our President is trying to erode these hard-won protections, for the sake of corporate greed.
Just in the past few weeks, Trump’s EPA weakened the Endangered Species Act and enabled more lethal pesticides linked to bee declines, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just decided NOT to categorize monarch butterflies as endangered -- despite recent counts showing these essential pollinators at near-collapse, largely due to industrial agriculture’s growing use of glyphosate (aka Monsanto’s Roundup®) and habitat destruction.
With your support, Friends of the Earth Action has been monitoring and fighting back against these attacks on bees and butterflies, which threaten our food system and our very survival. But... Then they asked for Money... and NO, I did not Give any Money BUT... You May at: https://foeaction.org/

About Us:

Founded by David Brower in 1969, Friends of the Earth Action has a more than 40-year record of not only fighting the tough battles, but winning them too. https://foeaction.org/about-us/
David Ross Brower (/ˈbraÊŠ.É™r/; July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941–1953; 1983–1988; and 1995–2000. As a younger man, he was a prominent mountaineer

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Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 explain why they're ditching him in 2020: We are "riddled with guilt and embarrassed" - These former Trump voters have seen the light!  https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/694915351359825/?notif_id=1594470493145415&notif_t=live_video

"RISK MY CHILD'S LIFE? NO!" - Vast Majority of Parents REJECT Trump's School Early Reopening Plan. "Corporate Profits Are Not as Important as Children's Health." https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/risk-my-childs-life-no-vast-majority-of.html

tRUMP Has Made Crime Legal For His Friends... and Himself... It's VERY Important To Campaign Against Him. Online, In The Streets, On The Phone... EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! The Time Has Come for a Million Patriots To Surround The White House and Perform an EXORCISM... Burn Sage, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant, Sing, Blow Whistles, Set Off 140dB Personal Alarms... What Ever Works! We Must Drive The Evil One OUT! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-has-made-crime-legal-for-his.html

"HATE Won't Make America Great" Slogan Printed on a Rainbow Flag - ROY G BIV - Buttons, Coffee Cups, Stickers, Paper Plates, Gift Boxes, T-Shirts ETC ETC ETC - AND - "LOVE JUSTICE TRUTH" Slogan - AND - "#Vote4Joe He's Not Insane!" Slogan...
LINK TO ALL MY LATEST GIFTS:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products

Global Awakening: An Idea Whose Time Has Come... Hate Won't Make America Great. As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Work Together to Build a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... Red and Blue People Coming Together to Make #Purple64ets. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/

Universal Basic Income... If we simply TAXED THE RICH we could afford to Pay The Poor... and The Poor would SPEND THAT MONEY AT AMERICAN BUSINESSES... increasing Profits... BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/video-what-is-bubble-up-economics-short.html

What IS The Cure for COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME? Suppose You Know a Corporate Greed FREAK, How Can We Help Them? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-is-cure-for-compulsive-hoarding-of.html

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - Illustrated by Robert Crumb - The Classic Novel That Inspired People to Form the Earth First! Ecology Group... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-monkey-wrench-gang-by.html

Alternatives to LAWNS: Clover... or Decorative rock and cactus gardens that don't use any water. Southern California is a dry climate. Why import water from the North? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/alternatives-to-lawns-decorative-rock.html

We need to Undo the Disaster at the EPA... tRUMP Has Reversed It's Mission... It's Now the Enable Polluters Agency... The Damage of tRUMP's Policies Could Last for Decades, Centuries or Maybe FOREVER... Feel Free to Share any Words or Pictures You See Here... Just Copy and Paste into Social Media or Your own BLOG... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/we-need-to-undo-disaster-at-epa-trump.html

American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX
In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html


Sell All Your Stocks in Oil, Gas and Coal. Buy Stocks in Solar and Wind. THEN PRESSURE CONGRESS TO SWITCH SUBSIDIES FROM OIL, GAS AND COAL TO SOLAR AND WIND.

Let's Use those Lobbyists that own Senators to Make The Switch... After All, I Don't Care What the Businesses I Own DO... Just So Long as They Make Me Money... 

Another Booming Business is Making Air Conditioners. The Temperature of the Whole Planet is Increasing and More People will be Buying Air Conditioners... and Electricity to Power them... and Generators for your Home... PG&E Cuts off the Electric Power Flowing thru the Wires due to Fire Hazard... Like the Wildfires of Paradise... BUT... If You Own Your Own Generator, It Does Not Matter What PG&E Does... 

Wind Power - MEME - gvan42
We Have Been Using Windmills Safely
 for Hundreds of Years.
NO, They Do Not Cause Cancer... 


solar canopy to make shade in a parking lot AND electricity - gvan42
Solar canopy to make cool shade
in a parking lot AND electricity.



Greg Predicts the Future! The Stock Market Will Go UP When tRUMP is Impeached. Wall Street Will Be Delighted That He Won't Be Making Any More BONEHEAD Trade Wars...

Obviously, As The CZAR of Bankruptcy... tRUMP is leading the Entire Country Towards Disaster.

I Also Predict That Businesses in SOLAR, WIND and other RENEWABLES... Will GO UP in Value.

Corporations Like PG&E, SMUD and SoCal Edison are Buying More Solar and Wind Power Stations... It's Simply a Cheaper Way to Generate Electricity and they Respect Their Stockholders. Profits are Important.


They Have TOTALLY Rejected Nuclear... They Shut Down Humboldt and San Onofre. Diablo Canyon is Scheduled to Close. That means California will be Completely Nuke Free. However we will be storing the Atomic Waste for Thousands of Years... OOPS... 

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*Trump Confesses to Adultery! "Hey, Moses Was JUST JOKING When He Wrote those Ten Commandments...

*Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics