Nuclear energy, the fallout from Fukushima and why it is not as bad as the Gulf Oil Spill cleanup is discussed with the brilliant Nora Maccoby. We go into the changing technology of Nuclear power, why Fukushima failed, the dependence on oil, thorium usage and much more on Buzzsaw hosted by Sean Stone. GUEST BIO: Nora Maccoby was born in Mexico City, raised in Washington DC, and began making short films when she was in her early teens. Trained in theater directing and playwriting at Oberlin College, she earned her MFA in Film Directing, and won the Leopard of Tomorrow for her film, "Dropping the Bomb on My Street" at the Locarno Film Festival. She co-wrote "Bongwater", (starring Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Andy Dick, Brittany Murphy) and "Buffalo Soldiers", (Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin), which was nominated for 6 Independent Spirit Awards and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Screenplay in 2003. In 2002, while researching a film on the 1983 US invasion of Grenada, West Indies, she began working with the local government to develop clean energy solutions. Realizing that this was a global issue, and that the environmental stakes were too high to dismiss, she returned to her hometown of Washington DC. In the spring of 2004, Nora began working with leaders inside the Beltway to create a bipartisan energy literacy initiative (Nature's Partners) and create common ground for a national energy conversation. A Democrat, Nora partnered with Rachel Pearson, a Bush Republican White House liaison, and the VPs of Exelon and Florida Power and Light, to craft a curriculum, and then, with a growing non-partisan network inside the Department of Defense including Amory Lovins, Scott Sklar, James Woolsey, Mitzi Wertheim and others, to message the fact that energy is a national security issue. She is a member of The Energy Consensus, President of Potomac Sustainable Communities Initiative LLC, and serves on the board of the IFCE. Nora currently divides her time between screenwriting/producing and policy - strategy. ADD'L LINKS: www.maccoby.com/nora/ Buzzsaw Episodes Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANg-Qe5ZfoY&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGc7NOFr74KbOPBCXrXT8nlf&index=1 Buzzsaw Short Clips Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh2yk1AtVGE&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGe43WJvnvzBPLaJrRVSUmxb www.facebook.com/pages/Buzzsaw/315063551949301?directed_target_id=0 www.facebook.com/thelip.tv EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Welcome to Buzzsaw 00:15 Introducing Nora Maccoby 01:06 Nora Discusses Syria 04:43 Is U.S. only going to Syria for Oil 06:52 Misconceptions about Nuclear Energy and the ghost of three mile island. 08:20 Utilizing thorium in energy. 11:38 Fukushima nuclear spill not as bad as the Gulf of Mexico clean up. 14:57 Geo Engineering. 16:00 New technological energy. 18:23 NGO and Grassroots groups. 22:15 Geomagnetic shifts and truth without Hollywood fiction.

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