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Joaquín José Martínez se convirtió hace algo más de 20 años en el primer español en salir del corredor de la muerte en Estados Unidos. Ese país sigue siendo la excepción en América dentro de la tendencia regional hacia la abolición, como lo demuestran las estadísticas de Amnistía Internacional. Martin O´Malley, ex gobernador de Maryland, consiguió hacerlo en ese estado norteamericano pero no fue fácil. Hoy hablamos con los tres. Además, os explicamos quién es Serguei Surovikin, conocido como el "general del armagedón". Es el elegido por Putin para dirigir la invasión de Ucrania a partir de ahora. Y el periodista José Naranjo nos cuenta el caso de los jarabes fabricados en India que pueden estar detrás de la muerte de decenas de niños en Gambia. 

ICYMI: The Best Of The Mo'Kelly Show Presents – Conversations with “Good Morning America” Co-Host & NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan discussing his book “Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life” AND Former Mayor of Baltimore, Former Maryland Governor & Former Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley discussing his book "Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age" on KFI AM 640 - Live everywhere on the iHeartradio App

As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success?  Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, documenting the top trends affecting legal professionals and looking at how well prepared law firms and legal departments are to address them. And given that this year's report comes in the wake of the global pandemic, it considers the events of 2020 and their impact on the profession now and into the future.  To discuss the report and share their insights on it, host Bob Ambrogi is joined by two top executives from Wolters Kluwer: Martin O'Malley, executive vice president and managing director of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory worldwide.  Dean Sonderegger, senior vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.  Paradigm, home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, and MerusCase, and e-payments platform Headnote. Law Insider, producer of the show Contract Teardown, where they analyze the contracts that others are talking about.  A reminder that we are on Patreon. Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests.

  As calls for racial justice have grown louder over the last few years, governments need to find ways to build racial equity into policy. Technology now gives governments more real-time information than ever to make policy decisions in the pursuit of equity, if they choose to use that information.   Martin O’Malley was governor of the state of Maryland for two terms and the two-term mayor of Baltimore. He currently is a Senior Advisor for Smart Governance with Grant Thornton, a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration and the author of “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age.” He has a post on GovExec sibling site Route 50 now headlined “States and Localities Should Implement Equity Compliance Measures.” He joined the show to talk about how governments can leverage data, tech and expertise in the service of equity.

After the election comes the governing.  Few have been as innovative and successful as Martin O’Malley who served as the mayor of Baltimore and two terms as governor of the great state of Maryland.  Many of the lessons he learned – chronicled in his new book, Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age – apply equally to running a smarter business.   Governor O’Malley explains how he became an early adopter of technology and data-driven systems of performance management.  He talks about how this approach brought greater efficiency, transparency and accountability.    Governor O’Malley also gives his thoughts on leadership, change management, the benefits and limitations of technology and many more topics.  Along the way, he describes some of his current endeavors including teaching, charitable work, and serving as Senior Adviser on Smarter Governance at the top consulting firm of Grant Thornton.   To learn more about Governor O’Malley and his book, Smarter Government, please visit the book’s dedicated website.  

The coronavirus pandemic has seen upticks in recent weeks, with the case number shooting past 2.5 million cases in June. As more states vacillate between opening up and moving forward in the CDC reopening phases, governments need to make decisions on how to test for and, perhaps, track the disease.  Martin O’Malley was governor of the state of Maryland and, before that, the mayor of Baltimore. He is currently is a Senior Advisor for Smart Governance with Grant Thornton and the author of Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age. He joined GovExec Daily to talk about contact tracing and how governments can better track the disease. 

Tom's guest is City Council President Brandon Scott, Democratic candidate for Mayor. Mr. Scott was first elected to the Council in 2011 to represent the 2nd District. Prior to that, he worked in the office of then Council President Stephanie Rawlings Blake as her representative in Northeast Baltimore. In 2018, Jim Shea picked Mr. Scott as his running mate in their unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Gubernatorial primary. Brandon Scott is 36 years old, which is, BTW, about the same age that Martin O’Malley was when he was elected Mayor, Johnny Olszewski, Jr., the Baltimore County Executive, and Pete Buttigieg, the former Mayor of South Bend Indiana, who ran for President.

Tom's guest is former Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon, who is in a crowded field of Democrats running for the office she held from 2007 to 2010. Ms. Dixon represented the 4th District on the City Council for 12 years in the late '80s and '90s. She served as president of the City Council from 1999 until January 2007, when she became mayor after Martin O’Malley became governor. She was elected to continue later that year. In 2010, she resigned following a conviction for embezzlement and an Alford plea in a separate case in which she was charged with perjury. She ran for mayor again in 2016. She narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Catherine Pugh, and she garnered more than 51,000 votes in the general election as a write-in candidate.

Tasha Harrison is joining us this week to talk about an old reliable trope — enemies to lovers! This is one of those that we return to again and again — and of course, since it’s a Pandemic, we have to ask…if you’re into enemies to lovers and you haven’t read Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark, what are you waiting for? Season 1 is here for you! Otherwise, we’re freewheeling with Tasha on everything from the best Chris to the real inspiration for The Wire, so strap in. It’s a ride!We love having you with us! — subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and like/review the podcast, please!Next week, we’re reading Sandra Brown! Jen and Sarah will be reading Texas! Chase, but it’s dealers’ choice! Pick your favorite old Sandra Brown or ask us for a rec on Twitter or Instagram! Maybe you want That Rana Look? Or Slow Heat in Heaven? Or French Silk? You can find them wherever books are sold (but the Texas! series isn’t in ebook format yet, sadly) — and don’t forget your favorite indie!Also, if you love the music in this or any of our episodes, check out our Spotify playlist, which includes it all!Show NotesThe internet is so slow.Remember that time when Michelle from Destiny's Child felland then got right back up?The Fraggle Rock Trash Heap.Jen wrote about Enemies to Lovers for Kirkus.Apparently, it's called a Proprietary Eponyms when a brand name becomes a verb or common noun.The question of whether or not fiction should be "timeless" is one that authors deal with in different ways.Robert Redford was a snack. Kevin Costner was named The Sexiest Man Alive, but Jen thinks the only time he was truly sexy was in Bull Durham.Can there ever be a definitive ranking of the Chrises? Jen likes Pine, Sarah likes "the Australian one," and Tasha isn't interested in any of them. Sarah has Chris Evans blindness, but Tasha points out that he's got a little of the wild one in him. Check him checking out this reporter's boots.We just had Christina Lauren on our show! Beautiful Bastard is better than Fifty Shades in a lot of ways, especially for that elevator scene. Either way, it's a good illustration of the myriad problems with a workplace romance.Speaking of Lucy Eden, she and Jen had THE STRANGEST thing happen at the 2019 RWA conference.Babies are complicated in romance and complicated in real life. Maybe what we're really going to see is a boom in "marriage in trouble" romance. Kids are complicated, too, especially if you buy the wrong poop bags.Tasha's dad inspired the character of Norman Wilson on The Wire! The Baltimore paper The Afro-American can be read online. The real life Baltimore Mayor he worked for was Martin O'Malley.These Italian Mayors want you to stay inside. If only all the American governors and mayors were the same. Cardi-B is worried about Coronavirus-- so stay home and stay safe!

Tom’s guest today is Martin O’Malley, who served as the mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, and as the 61st Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. In 2016, he sought the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. For decades, an argument about the fundamental role of government has raged between those on the political right who often think of government as invasive and overbearing, and those on the left who see social programs and other functions of government as a fundament of American society. As political leaders confront the COVID-19 pandemic at the local, state and federal levels, the need for governmental intervention in times of crisis is acknowledged by those of every political stripe. Drawing on his own experience as a Maryland chief executive, Martin O’Malley has written a book about leadership, and how executives at all levels of government can employ best practices to improve outcomes in violence reduction, education, the environment, and a host of other issues. The book is called Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age. You can explore its central themes at smartergovernment.com. Martin O’Malley joins Tom on the phone from his home in Baltimore. In today's conversation, Gov. O'Malley mentioned his interest in the urgent appeal, sent out by the directors of Emergency Management and Healthcare Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, for donations of Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs), a critically important type of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers treating coronavirus patients. If you can help provide this or other PPE resources, please contact George Lavdas, Hopkins' Senior Director for Supply Chain Transformation, by email at glavdas@jhni.edu, or by cell at: (443) 766-0758.

Our series of Conversations with the Candidates continues today with Carl Stokes, one of seven Democratic candidates vying to be the next Baltimore City Council President. The current Council President, Brandon Scott is running for Mayor, so there is no incumbent in the race. Carl Stokes is a familiar figure to folks who have been around a while. He served on the Baltimore City Council in the mid 1980s, and again from 2010-2016. This is not Mr. Stokes’ first try at city-wide office. In 1999, he ran for mayor, losing that primary to Martin O’Malley. He ran for mayor again in 2016. He has had professional experience in the retail clothing business, the health care industry, and as an education administrator. He is a founder of two public charter schools in Baltimore: the Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, and the Banneker-Blake Academy for Arts and Science. The Banneker-Blake School was closed by the Baltimore City School Board last year. Carl Stokes is a graduate of Loyola High School. He attended Loyola University for two years. He is 69 years old, and the father of two grown children. He joins Tom on the line from his home in Greater Greenmount. Listener comments and questions were welcomed.

The Olympics have been postponed for a year, and within the last hour, the Prime Minister of India ordered a lockdown of his entire country of 1.3 billion people. Here in Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan is scheduled to tour the Convention Center and Hilton Hotel in Baltimore at this hour. Emergency hospitals are being set up at those locations by the National Guard, in conjunction with the University of Maryland Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Congress has not yet been able to agree on the third iteration of a stimulus package to prop up the economy in the midst of this unprecedented pandemic. The stock market reacted badly yesterday, even after the Federal Reserve announced it would invest whatever it takes to address mass layoffs and business closures. The S&P Index fell another 3% yesterday, compounding the pain of last week’s 15% plunge. But it opened higher this morning, amid optimism that the Senate will reach a deal by the end of the day today. Rep. Anthony Brown joins me now to discuss the federal government's response to the pandemic. Congressman Brown has represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Anne Arundel and Prince George’s Counties, since 2017. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. Brown was Maryland’s lieutenant governor, under Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Cleantech and Climate Change Podcast: Former Governor Martin O'Malley talks about new book, Smarter Government, and how "smart cities" are fighting climate change

Former Baltimore mayor and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is arguably one of the foremost proponents of using data analytics to measure government performance. That’s quite evident from his new book, “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age," which he discussed at our Federal News Network studios last week. He brought the New York City Police Department's revolutionary performance measurement program CompStat to Baltimore, then later to the state capital in Annapolis. Speaking to Ask the CIO: SLED Edition host John Thomas Flynn, O'Malley argued for better data metrics in gauging government performance.

Join the Fedheads in part 1 of 3 with guest Martin O'Malley, former Mayor of Baltimore and former Governor of Maryland. Robert Shea & Francis Rose welcome Governor O'Malley to discuss his new book Smarter Government: Governing for Results in the Information Age.

How do we grow smart cities without growing inequality? How can public officials become more responsive to its citizens? What are the new job titles emerging in smart cities? In this episode of IBM thinkLeaders podcast, we are joined by guests Governor Martin O’Malley (author of Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age, former Governor of Maryland & Mayor of Baltimore) & Alexander Shermansong (founder of Civic Consulting USA, faculty at NYU). We talk to Martin and Alexander about the emergence of a more customer-centric form of governing, the role of cities in tackling major issues like climate change, and why a “smart city” is more than just a city with smart garbage cans. Connect with us @IBMthinkLeaders + the guests at: @MartinOMalley @alexshermansong “In the Information Age, citizens demand that their leaders have the guts to show them why they're making a decision. That doesn't mean that once people understand why you're making the decision, they will all agree. People reserve their right to vote against, but they do expect the respect of showing why you're making a decision on what basis, what is the objective truth.” -Martin O’Malley, author of Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age, former Governor of Maryland & Mayor of Baltimore “[G]overnment has pushed the ball pretty far in terms of smart cities and entrepreneurialism and we're seeing a lot of reaction from the private sector saying, ‘Wow, there's actually a lot we could be doing around transportation, around sanitation, around these other areas.’ And there's now a host of startups anxious to get into government and see how they might either provide the same services government has been providing or in some ways to improve upon them.”-Alexander Shermansong, founder of Civic Consulting USA, faculty at NYU -- MARTIN O'MALLEY Just two years after his upset election as Mayor of Baltimore in 1999, Time Magazine named Martin O’Malley one of the top five big city mayors in America. His new data-driven system of performance management, “Citistat,” earned his City the Innovations in Government Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2002 and has been copied by mayors across the country and around the world. When he ran for his Party’s nomination for President in 2016 — after two highly successful terms as Governor of Maryland — Washingtonian Magazine called him “probably the best manager in elected office today.” As Mayor, O’Malley set Baltimore on course for the largest ten year reduction of crime of any major city in America. As Governor, O’Malley’s leadership made Maryland’s public schools #1 in America for an unprecedented five years in a row. And with a new performance management regimen called, “Baystat”, O’Malley turned around a 300 year decline in the health of the Chesapeake Bay — the largest estuary in North America. O’Malley was the first of a new generation of Smart City mayors that would follow. In fact, his performance management system, Citistat — and it’s Maryland progeny, Statestat — also inspired key amendments to the Government Performance and Results Act; foundational requirements intended to drive data-driven management practices across federal agencies today. In his new book, “Smarter Government”, O’Malley lays out in his own words how to govern for better results in the Information Age. It is a formula that every elected leader has the ability to call into service. But it requires a radical commitment to openness and transparency. The courage to follow the data wherever it might lead. A relentless commitment to measuring the outputs of government on a real-time basis. It is all about producing better results — real-time — for real people. The book was published in the fall of 2019 by Esri Press.

Genuine progress comes from entrepreneurial governing, says former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley.

Turns out to Trump's chagrin, Virginia and Kentucky are fans of the color blue. Michael and Karine Jean-Pierre break down what happened in this week's election. Karine Jean-Pierre is the Chief Public Affairs Officer for MoveOn and an NBC and MSNBC Political Analyst. Jean-Pierre previously served as the DeputyCampaign Manager for Martin O’Malley for President. In 2011, Jean-Pierre served as Deputy Battleground States Director for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. She’s the author of MOVING FORWARD: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America

Former MD Governor and Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley knows what it’s like to be on that debate stage. He joins Tom with analysis.

In this episode of Policy on Purpose, guest hosted by LBJ Professor and the Washington Center’s Academic Director Don Kettl, former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, former mayor of Indianapolis Stephen Goldsmith and Robert Shea of Grant Thornton talk about how data-driven decision making can change the way governments serve people. Recorded at the LBJ […]

 Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard talks about all the recent IPERS controversy with State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald. And we interview Senator Amy Klobuchar and Governor […] The post Ep67: IPERS, Mike Fitzgerald, Amy Klobuchar & Martin O’Malley appeared first on Iowa Starting Line.

Martin O’Malley tours Ohio, Betsy Rader demands a debate, and Steve Dettelbach takes on the ECOT scandal! On this week’s Ohio Democratic Podcast we are highlighting three big stops from Ohio Democrats’ #PeopleFirst bus tour. Listen to this week's episode and then text OHIO to 909-75 to sign up or a volunteer shift this week!

This week on the podcast, Tom calls in with former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to discuss their trip to Ireland for the Tip O'Neill Irish Diaspora Awards. Plus, our expert crisis communication team talks about what to do and what not to do in a crisis. Cosmo and Cayenne talk the Massachusetts economy, Josh Gordon's move to the Patriots, and Hawaii Five-O turns 5-0.

Martin O'Malley, the 61st Governor of Maryland, the 47th Mayor of Baltimore, and a former 2016 Democratic candidate for President, speaks about service to others as a calling to ease other's pain, to... Good hearts make the world a better place

In this episode of The Road to Now, recorded live at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, Governor Martin O'Malley join Bob & Ben for a conversation about history, music and politics. We discuss the history of immigration, how Gov. O'Malley's Catholic faith influenced his political views, and Gov. O'Malley shares (and plays) some of the songs that have had the strongest impact on his life. Martin O'Malley has served as Governor of Maryland (2007-2015), Mayor of Baltimore (1999-2007) and Maryland City Councilman (1991-1999). This episode was recorded live on October 27, 2016 at Georgetown University. Special thanks to Mo Elleithee and everyone at the Institute of Politics and Public Service for supporting this event and for all the hospitality they showed us during our visit. The Road to Now is a member of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on this and all other episodes of our podcast, visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.

This episode of The Great Battlefield features an in-depth conversation with Governor Martin O'Malley. He discusses cutting crime rates as the Mayor of Baltimore, serving as the Governor of Maryland during the Great Recession, and running for President in the turbulent 2016 cycle. He also tells us why he chose to launch Win Back Your State - a PAC focused on training and supporting Democratic candidates at the state and local level. | Episode 140

The race for Maryland State Senate District 41 has two Democrats Jill Carter and J.D. Merrill for the seat vacated by Nathaniel Oaks who on April 26, 2018, was ordered by a judge to be removed from the ballot. Oaks resigned from the state Senate on March 29, 2018 amid a scandal that we won’t get into. So it is 27year old Merrill a former teacher and son-in-law of Martin O’Malley, who was a former mayor of the city, governor of the state and recently made an un unsuccessful run at the Democratic Presidential losing out to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. But young Mr. Merrill is taking on Carter former a member of the Maryland House of Delegates who heads the mayor Catherine Pugh’s civil rights office. It should be noted that the winner of the Democratic Primary will be the person representing Maryland 41 in the state house in Annapolis.   Follow me on Social Media @JWMediaDC on Twitter,,.   Promotional and sponsor consideration from Sling TV the best streaming live television service on the market. Become a Slinger today.For all of your streaming video needs visit Boom Media,

In 1979, Baptist minister Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority to represent and promote the values and viewpoints of the Christian Right. During the March for Our Lives this past weekend, Matthew Dowd, ABC News' chief political analyst, believed a new moral majority had formed, tweeting, "New Moral Majority in America. And it isn’t white evangelicals, or the supporters of Trump. It is the majority of the country who believe in integrity in government, compassion, the rule of law, and justice." Dowd joins Rick Ungar to discuss this new moral majority and how it is beginning to show itself across the political spectrum. The Supreme Court will begin hearing a oral arguments in a gerrymandering case about redistricting in Maryland. The guys discuss how the court's ruling could influence coming elections and change the balance of power in Congress.

As governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley led one of the most innovative reform efforts to have been implemented in any state. By moving hospitals to a fixed and predictable payment model, incentives for the organizations were redirected from quantity to a new focus on quality. O’Malley was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, and made health care an important part of his campaign. We sat down with O’Malley at our 2018 Hawaii State of Reform Health Policy Conference, where he was one of the keynote speakers. We talk through some of the health care reforms he worked on in Maryland, and the current state of our national politics.

Martin O’Malley has spent his entire career fighting for underserved and middle-class communities. He has served as the Governor of Maryland, Mayor of Baltimore, and a city councilor—earning a reputation as a bold, progressive, and pragmatic executive who is willing to take on our toughest shared challenges. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, and made health care an important part of his campaign. We sat down with O'Malley at our sister site's event, the 2018 Hawaii State of Reform Health Policy Conference, where he was one of the keynote speakers. We talk through some of the health care reforms he worked on in Maryland, and the current state of our national politics.

2:37/42:05: Julie Lawson, executive director of Trash Free Maryland, talks about the amount of micro-plastics her organization has found in the Chesapeake Bay and efforts underway to reduce the kind of pollution barely discernible to the eye. Also, Lawson talks about Trash Free Maryland’s project to recover and track some of the merchandise lost by Main Street stores during the Ellicott City flood late last month, including ceramic Christmas figurines.13:01: Rona Kobell, reporter with the Chesapeake Bay Journal, discusses Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to roll back septic rules for new houses put in place by his predecessor, Martin O’Malley. Plus, O’Malley-era oyster sanctuaries — watermen want some of them opened to harvest, and they might get their way. Rona also has a story about ex-offenders being put to work planting trees in Baltimore neighborhoods in dire need of things green.Linkshttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bal-last-and-found-a-flotilla-of-figurines-from-the-ellicott-city-flood-20160830-story.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bal-bill-aims-to-end-use-of-plastic-microbeads-in-personal-care-products-20150207-story.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/microbeads-soon-will-be-banned-from-toothpaste-soaps-shampoos/2016/01/07/254166a8-b4c1-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.htmlhttps://trashfreemaryland.org/2016/08/10/help-us-track-the-ectreasures/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-septic-20160823-story.htmlhttp://www.bayjournal.com/article/green_jobs_helping_ex_cons_turn_over_a_new_leaf

We have three more days of podcasts devoted to the candidates for Baltimore City Council in this month’s primary election. In this podcast:Today’s conversations are with candidates for District 4 in north-central Baltimore, stretching from Guilford to Govans, from Wilson Park to Woodbourne Heights, up and down York Road from Lake-Evesham to Penn Lucy. Bill Henry is the incumbent Democrat who has served two terms. His challengers are Rodney Burris, Francesco Legaluppi and Brian Hammock.1:39: Bill Henry is 47 years old, a resident of Radnor-Winston, and known as an independent thinker on the City Council.21:53: Rodney Burris is one of three political newcomers seeking the 4th District City Council. He is 34 years old, an entrepreneur and educator, father of five and a resident of Govans.39:43: Brian Hammock is an attorney and corporate executive, 35 years old, who lives in Homeland and who worked for former mayor and Gov. Martin O’Malley.1:05:02: Francesco Legaluppi is a business consultant and Homeland resident who, from a young age, served as Consul General for Italy in Baltimore.Our series of interviews with candidates continues in Thursday’s podcast with three of the candidates seeking to replace Rikki Spector after her long tenure in the 5th District, and six candidates vying for Carl Stokes' seat in the 12th District. Several Democrats are running to replace City Councilman Nick Mosby on the west side. My podcast interviews with five of the 7th District candidates will be posted on Friday.

Irish-American politician Martin O'Malley is best known for terms as governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, and for his unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential candidacy in 2016. Earlier this week he talked to Political Correspondent Harry McGee about his Irish connections, his upbringing and political philosophy, his views on the Trump presidency and how he squares his own liberal views on abortion and marriage equality with his Catholicism. He also shed some light on his relationship with David Simon, creator of tv show The Wire which portrayed the social and political problems of Baltimore in the early 2000s.

Hillary's got a new book and it's getting a lot of coverage, but we're the only ones with the inside scoop on Lincoln Chafee's! We also talk about Martin O'Malley's hot body and Anders' big idea for a woke viral video. Then Jake Flores gives us a quick rundown of some antifa history and whether or not breaking a window is murder. 10/10 it's a podcast.

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Finally, Aaron's dreams come true: his idol, Governor Martin O'Malley, is the guest on this week's episode. O'Malley reflects on his career in politics and his faith background, identifies key strategies for the Democratic party moving forward after a disappointing election season, and presents his vision for the nation. Will he run for president again? Listen to find out!

Professor Groome speaks with Martin O'Malley, Former Governor of Maryland and 2016 Presidential Candidate, about the role of Catholic faith in his political life. 

How do you measure the success or failure of a president? Maybe it’s the one practice from the business world that Donald Trump seems least likely to carry over. In this episode, we look at KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators. We pick apart some of the KPIs that are commonly used to measure presidencies, and suggest some new and novel ones we might use. Also featured in this episode: Martin O’Malley, obesity, aliens, the staggering decrease in worldwide combat deaths since WWII, Ronald Reagan, and sex. This is Robot F. Kennedy. SHOW NOTES Key Performance Indicator (KPI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator Overweight and Obesity Statistics, National Institutes of Health (NIH): https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/Pages/overweight-obesity-statistics.aspx Nine Years of Apple's iOS SDK generated $60 billion, 1.4 million jobs: http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/07/nine-years-of-apples-ios-sdk-generated-60-billion-14-million-jobs The Washington Post, Our infant mortality rate is a national embarrassment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-infant-mortality-rate-is-a-national-embarrassment/?utm_term=.90dd55afe414 Stock Market Performance by President, MacroTrends: http://www.macrotrends.net/2481/stock-market-performance-by-president The United States Office of Personnel Management, Total Government Employment Since 1962: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/ War Deaths Data: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/

Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley joins Business Insider Australia publisher Paul Colgan and markets editor David Scutt to discuss what's going on with the Republican party, and how technology is changing leadership and the future of cities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stanford professor Mark Jacobson is a specialist in climate modeling and alternative energy and has spent much of his career trying to understand, and find solutions to, global warming. He thinks the US is now equipped with the necessary technology and economic means to get off of fossil fuels. He and colleagues, including UC Berkeley researcher Mark Delucchi, have created 100% clean, renewable energy all-sector energy plans for all 50 United States and 139 countries worldwide that include how each can achieve such a transition by 2050. To solve the problem of political will, he co-founded The Solutions Project -- with actor Mark Ruffalo, businessman Marco Krapels, and activist Josh Fox -- to engage policymakers, business leaders, and the public to try to put the 50-state plan into action. An interactive map summarizing the plans for each state is available on The Solutions Project website.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness. I Biweekly Public Affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm Lisa Keifer and we're taking a field trip down to Stanford today to interview the clean energy mastermind. Professor Mark Jacobson. What do you do here at Stanford? Speaker 2:Well, I teach and do research and I study clean and renewable energy systems and air pollution [00:00:30] and climate problems and how to solve them through clean and renewable energy. Speaker 3:I read about you recently in the new republic. Bill McKibben has written a really thoughtful article saying that our current climate crisis, what we need to do, he likens it to what we did in World War II to gear up to fight the Nazis and the Japanese. And he mentioned you in the work that you're doing. He talks about the solutions you have that are ready right now for all 50 states in the United States. What is that project? Speaker 2:Well, we do research on developing [00:01:00] plans for states and countries and we've completed plans for all 50 states and also now working on 139 countries around the world using all renewables and yeah, the idea of the plan is to electrify all energy sectors. That's transportation, heating and cooling industry, agriculture, forestry and fishing and provide that electricity with clean and renewable energies such as wind and water and solar power, but combined with some energy storage combined with energy efficiency and some additional transmission. When did you come up [00:01:30] with this plan? Well, our first plan was in 2009 it was really a world plan, just gross numbers to see if it was possible to power the world entirely 100% with wind and water and solar power for all purposes. And it wasn't broken down into countries, but from a on a worldwide scale, if we're just looking at the raw numbers, there was possible because there's enough wind resource, there's enough solar resource and existing water resource. And also we looked at the materials required, we looked at the costs or we looked at the land use required and we found that all these are within reason and [00:02:00] then potentially possible to do. Speaker 3:How many years did it take you to come up with these very specific plans? [inaudible] right. Speaker 2:So then, uh, after that there was in 2009, and then subsequently we started working in 2011 on a state plans specifically for New York state that you got completed in 2013. So that took, why did you choose New York first? Well, I started working with some people, activists in New York, probably people who are fighting against natural gas, fracking. Hydrofracking they had wanted some alternative. What's [00:02:30] their, you know, what else can we do besides natural gas in the state of New York? And in this group was mark refollow, who's, I'm also an actor and a Marco cripples who is, um, he's a business person who lives actually in California and Josh Fox, who is a documentarian. And we kind of brainstormed and thought, well, why don't we take our energy plan for the world and squish it down to a state level answer. That's right. I did with some help with Mark Delucci, who's a doctor researcher at UC Berkeley. Speaker 2:Right. And also eventually got some students involved [00:03:00] and Reese Chris down a plan for New York, got some new data and uh, it took a while to get all the information we needed. But by 2013, we had a New York energy plan from 13 to now you've rolled out the rest of the 50 states plus 127 countries in the world. We're, we will correct the Xero since then. In the middle of completing the New York plan, we started a California energy plan. We thought, well, we have one for New York. Why not apply to another state? So we got more experience improving the plans as we went along. And we did one for Washington state [00:03:30] long at the same time. Uh, I thought, well, why not just do all 50 states? We can not about ties the process simultaneously. So we did that and we completed those plans in 2015 for all 50 states and then at the same time as we were completing that and we started working on thought, well, why not go to the world and go to all individual countries as many as we could. Speaker 2:And so we found data for 139 countries and that's what we're working on right now and try to complete that. Okay. How many people are on this team who had crunching the numbers? Well, going out into [00:04:00] the field since 2009 we've had about 80 scientists and students working on these energy plans, although there's kind of a core group of people who are doing most of the work. The group I talked about initially with Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox and Marco Cripples, we started a nonprofit together. It's called the solutions project. And the idea of this was, well, why not take these energy plans that were developing these scientific science-based plans, but then we try to take those plans and educate the public and policy makers about them and do outreach [00:04:30] and try to reach communities that might not normally be engaged in the sense to me when I read this article in then new republic, I thought, wow, they probably been working on this for years and yet it took this long to hear about it. Speaker 2:That must be the biggest challenge. Getting this information out to the lay person so that we can make political decisions in our communities to support it. Correct. I mean that's my opinion is that, you know, getting information out to large numbers of people. I mean keep in mind there are 7.3 billion people in [00:05:00] the world and you know, as a scientist I might reach a few hundred to a few thousand at most. And you know, even with a good outreach you might reach 100,000 or something like that. But we really need to reach hundreds of millions of people to have an impact worldwide. And so, so are you capitalizing on some of your successes? Like for instance, what are some states who are doing this right now and how do we find out about that? Yeah, we've actually had some really good success and feedback. So the states [00:05:30] of both New York and California have basically adopted a portion of our plans. We proposed 80% conversion to wind water and solar by 2030 and all energy sectors and 100% by 2050. California in New York have adopted a 50% conversion for the electricity sector, which is only one of those sectors by 2030. And they've also adopted some other energy efficiency goals. But part of that is because we publish these papers for those states. We, uh, talked with the staff members of the governors [00:06:00] and so they are right, they're aware of these plans and that it was possible. And so that enabled them to push the envelope into what policies, Speaker 3:but they're still not pushing it as far as you say they should. Correct. They're not at, what's the downside of that? Speaker 2:There is downside because it means we'll have climate problems that are persist for longer period of time and we'll have air pollution problems that will persist for longer. So we're still trying to inform them about the necessity of getting to 80% by 2030 in all sectors. Uh, so there was, there was a ways to go but um, we are making in roads I should say there is a house resolution [00:06:30] now based on our work, based on our 50 state plans, a house resolution five 40, which is calls for the United States to go to 100% clean renewable energy for all sectors by 2050. So that actually, well it's just a resolution, but if it did pass, if subsequent bills were passed to support it, it would actually get to the end goal that we proposed. I think it has 44 46 co-sponsors, including Nancy Pelosi as one of the co-sponsors. Speaker 2:All three Democratic presidential candidates actually supported a a hundred percent goals by 2050 [00:07:00] and Bernie Sanders had our maps on his website. Hillary Clinton, we have a video tape of her supporting 100% clean renewable energy by 2050 and Martin O'Malley was the first one to go out there with 100% by 2050. There were also three senators I've mentioned they were going to propose 100% renewable energy by 2050. I should also mention that the a hundred percent idea has galvanized lots of nonprofits, dozens and dozens of nonprofits that are no, uh, centered around this goal. And they've actually been also helped to convince cities [00:07:30] in many cities want to go to 100% clean renewable energy, including, you know, several in the United States into southern Canada and companies as well. There are at least 60 to 70 companies, including many of the major ones that want to go to 100% renewable energy, have committed to go to 100%. For example, Walmart today, apple and Starbucks, Johnson and Johnson, there are many of the top companies Speaker 3:on the ride over here. I was in horrible traffic and I couldn't help but thinking about how are you going to convince consumers to [00:08:00] buy electric cars? How will they afford it? Number one, are we going to have to have subsidy programs along with a national grid or community redundant grids? Where does that all fit into this? Speaker 2:Well, I think electric cars, I mean most people, once I drive an electric car, they never want to go back Speaker 3:of course, but how can they afford it? Like in let's talk about outside of the coast, well Speaker 2:there are many electric car companies now that are selling commodity cars and so and there is a $7,500 tax credit. So that basically [00:08:30] brings the price of an electric car, even a low cost electric car into the same cost as an equivalent gasoline car. So I think that the costs are equivalent and it's actually, it's a lot cheaper to actually drive an electric car because the cost of the fuel is one fourth to one fifth the cost of gasoline per mile driven. So over the life of a car, if you drive a car 15,000 miles per year for 15 years, you will save $20,000 in fuel cost. The main thing that people have been concerned about is range. And so many of these electric cars now [00:09:00] actually have longer range. I mean, of course the Tesla, which is the model s, it's 275 miles a range. Um, but the, you know, even the new lower cost Tesla, which hasn't been public yet, but as people have taken orders for it, it's the thing, it's over 200 mile range. Speaker 2:And then even the, the leaf I think is over a hundred, 125 miles. Right? And so that's the limiting factor for most comedians. 95% of commutes or all the electric cars are within range. And you can charge them in your home if you have just a regular electric plug outlet or, or a special [00:09:30] charger that can be put in your home. So that's an advantage. Another advantage of electric cars is you can charge them in your house or in your garage or just a gasoline car. You can't, you know the disadvantages of course it's, it takes longer to refuel and there when you're, when you're out on the road, there's currently fewer charging stations, but there are a lot of charging stations out there now and there are a lot more coming and there is a plan to roll out many more. Yeah, there really has to, if we want to do this on a large scale, we need a lot more charging stations. But the electric grid is there, is there, it's really a question of hooking up new charging stations to the [00:10:00] grid and these charging stations don't take up much space. Speaker 3:We're doing this planning state by state. Are you also, are you setting up redundant grid systems in each state so that, you know there is a national grid, but are they going to be able to, let's say there's a climate catastrophe in one part of the country, will the other pieces of that grid be able to pick up the difference? Speaker 2:Yeah. Well the grid is interconnected already across the United States. So there the actual flow of electricity is limited by the size of the transmission lines. So we would need, we've got to 100% we will need [00:10:30] to expansion of the transmission grid or at least increasing the capacity of the grid so that you can send more electricity long distances. For example, we will have a lot of wind turbines in the great plains or we already do, but we'd have more and we might want to transfer more of that electricity to the east coast because the electricity is so cheap. The generation is so cheap and the great plains, it's, it's 2 cents a kilowatt hour now with the subsidy and in three and a half without a subsidy and that compares to natural gas, which is five to 6 cents a kilowatt hour as the actual cost of energy. Wind is the cheapest form [00:11:00] of electricity in the U s but a lot of it is in places that are far away and so transmission would be beneficial. Speaker 2:It also helps because if the wind's not blowing in one place, it is usually pulling somewhere else or having a more interconnected transmission system would actually make things more efficient. Same thing with solar. I mean it's not always sunny in some places because you're all in the clouds and the u s there are some long distance where it's called high voltage direct current or HVDC long distance transmission lines going up. I mean there's like what's called the clean power line or it's a company that has [00:11:30] proposals for several long distance corridors across the u s and I think they've had one or two of them already approved in that. They may even be building, but I can't say for sure what stage they're out. Yeah, Speaker 3:kind of controversially have left off nuclear power in your renewables. Can you tell me why you've taken that stance? Speaker 2:Yeah, it's interesting because the other people who are supportive of nuclear power just say, you know, I'm biased against nuclear, but you know, this is all based on a scientific research that while nuclear is, is better than a lot of energy [00:12:00] technologies such as coal, gas and oil. For the most part, it's not as good as clean renewable energy such as wind, water and solar. And that's just a scientific conclusion. I mean, aside from the fact that it, it takes so long to put up a nuclear plant between 10 and 19 years between planning and operation and we don't have the time. It's the same two to five years is typical for a wind or solar farm. So not only do we delay getting that energy, but it also, right now it costs, uh, about four times more than onshore wind. So it's 12 and a half cents a kilowatt hour [00:12:30] for the unsubsidized cost of nuclear versus the unsubsidized costs of onshore wind is three and a half cents a kilowatt hour subsidizes 2 cents. Speaker 2:So we're talking one fourth of the cost. So not only do you have to wait three times longer to get the nuclear up, but you also have to pay four times more for the same power. And that's the only at the beginning. The other problems are, some people say even more severe, I mean there's a meltdown risk. 1.5% of all nuclear reactors ever built up, melted down to some degree. Nuclear weapons proliferation risk. How many intergovernmental panel on climate change says there's, [00:13:00] there's robust evidence. And high agreement that a nuclear energy proliferation leads to nuclear weapons proliferation. And this is because several countries of the world who have developed weapons secretly under the guise of civilian nuclear energy programs, there's waste issues. We haven't figured out what to do with all the waste that accumulates and you have to store it for 300,000 years and that takes a lot of energy. Speaker 2:That's in costs of storing out that don't, aren't even accounted for in the cost of energy today of the nuclear. Yeah, and then there's a, the carbon dioxide emissions, people say that, oh, nuclear is a zero carbon. Well, it's not [00:13:30] zero carbon whatsoever. I mean you have to, when you're using the uranium and you have to mine the uranium that takes fossil fuels, then you have to refine it. It's a very energy intensive process to refine uranium and you have to do that throughout the life of the reactor. Fossil fuel, carbon dioxide emissions, and there are other air pollutant emissions. And the fact that it takes so long to put up a nuclear plant, the difference in the time it takes to put up the nuclear plant versus the wind or solar plant, you're running the irregular electric power grid. And so you have to assign those emissions to the nuclear as well. Speaker 2:And so we're talking when you [00:14:00] actually add everything up, it's between six and 24 times more carbon and air pollution per kilowatt hour compared to wind energy. So no brainer. Yes, it's not just one problem. If you, you can't just solve one problem and say, oh, nuclear is good. You really have to solve instead of 5% idea. I mean, I can remember reading in the 90s that thought that had to be a part of the mix to put a little people in the world. So I met a lot of people, nuclear supporters think that nuclear is necessary because it's uh, it's very high energy density. So you can, you can, you can provide a lot of power [00:14:30] in a small area. But the fact is it has so many side effects that, um, you know, it's just not as good at this point. If nothing else worked, then yeah, maybe try that. Speaker 2:You've, you're up against a massive opponent and that's the carbon industry. I'm surprised they're not pushing back more. I mean, I get more pushback from nuclear people, different philosophy people. They know that they have enough power and control the, you know, they don't have to respond to, you know, studies or other people will think about them. They can just, just keep doing what they're doing. And they, you know, they find that they don't really need to respond. [00:15:00] But if we get a congress that will pass this plan, well yeah, no, our plans would have them completely phased out and they would be eliminated. So they should be worried. But you know, on the other hand, there's, most of the energy is still produced by fossil fuels by far most of the energy worldwide. And so it's such a, such a large penetration still the, you know, they haven't felt any risk it of, of disappearing. Speaker 2:But you know the writing is on the wall and they will eventually disappears. It's a question of time. I was reading that Washington [00:15:30] State is actually the farthest along in terms of percentage of renewables toward that goal of 100% in 2050 it is, but it's because of hydroelectric power that's existing hydroelectric in the states. You won't be building more dams. You're going to make present dams more efficient. Right. Our plans call for no new conventional hydroelectric dams and just making existing dams more efficient. I should point out that there are, in the United States there are 80,000 dams and only I think 10,000 produce electricity. [00:16:00] So there most of the dams in the U s are non power dams and so in theory you could power some of those without actually creating a new dam just to create power from them. And you could also like, cause a lot of people want to remove dams and so there are literally 70,000 dams available to remove without reading moving. Speaker 2:For example, the powering dams. The reason hydroelectric power is so useful in the solution is that a hydroelectric reservoirs basically a big battery and when you need like the windows and all this blow in the centers and all the shine. [00:16:30] And so when, when you, let's say you have no way to know sunlight texted, very valuable to have hydroelectric power cause you can, you can basically turn it off and on instantaneously. Uh, and then allowing it to provide the power when you need it to fill in gaps and supply. What's your plan for say Louisiana? We just experienced horrible rains like the thousand year rains and flooding. What would a state like that look like with your plan? The South in general, it was pretty a very weak winds except off shore. Um, but they have good solar radiation, [00:17:00] although it's not as good as the south west, which has more clear skies because there are more cloudy skies in the southeast, but there's a lot of sunlight in Louisiana. Speaker 2:So solar is a major part. Then they have offshore wind as well. So those are offshore platforms? Yeah, they've offshore platforms, but offshore wind and solar are the two major sources there might be advantageous Tulsa to have transmission into the state from other states that have much greater wind to the west. What is the most challenging state or country that you've had to come [00:17:30] up with a plan for so far? I would say Singapore basically it's a very small country that is very high population density so it's population really covers most of the land so there's not a lot of room to put clean renewable energy. You have rooftops and the rooftops aren't sufficient enough but there is offshore wind as well. Um, so we might have to go to off shore floating solar. In fact, I should point out though that that's only if we decided the Singapore had to be powered entirely with its own energy. Speaker 2:It could actually just transmit energy [00:18:00] from nearby. There is a solution to that problem too, just from transmitting from outside of it. But if you're just wanting to have it provided its own energy, these kinds of, some of these smaller countries like Gibraltar has a similar issue, but there is a solution to everything. If you add transmission, people complained that the sun isn't shining, but if you do have batteries you can then provide more reliable electricity either either back to the greater for your own use in your home. So basically if you have batteries and solar on your roof, you know you're a power plant and you can provide, uh, you have the ability to [00:18:30] smooth out like the rest of the grid. Tesla bought solar city and so they want to really, Tulsa wants to become a battery storage company as well as a motor company. Speaker 2:And so the idea is to take the solar panels on the roof and then use batteries to store that electricity. So integrate the batteries with the solar panels on the roof a lot more and even make roofing material that has solar panels in them, which is a great thing to do to integrate batteries with rooftop solar. But are there technologies on the horizon that wouldn't [00:19:00] be called batteries that they're a whole different kind of, yeah, actually. Well we look when we developed plans for all 50 states a, we did a study where we said can we keep the grid reliable over the continental United States? It's 48 states and we found that we can, if we combine generation of wind and solar, which are what are called intermittent or does wind, does nose blow and the sun doesn't always shine with low cost heat and cold storage and electricity storage. Speaker 2:I should point out that first of all, if you electrify all sectors, if you electrify heating, cooling [00:19:30] industry transportation, you make it easier to match power demand on the grid because there are a lot more low, what are call loads of energy require more energy requirements that are what are called flexible. You don't have to hook a wind turbine up to your car to drive the car, your battery. So you can charge the car anytime of day or night by electrifying all sectors. And then you use low cost heat and cold storage. So, for example, ice, you can have an ice cube under a building in fact at Stanford has had an ice cube in our building since 1998 and during the night when electricity [00:20:00] prices low, it produced the ice. And then during the day instead of using high cost electricity for air conditioning during the day, you would run the water through the ice. Speaker 2:And so you basically, by using cold storage in ice, you eliminate electricity use in the afternoon and during the peak. And you can do the same thing with hot water and cold water. Uh, you can store, yeah, you can store heat and uh, in water and store cold and water as well. But then there's another, I mean there's a community in Canada, Oca, Tokes Canada, which is an hour south of Calgary that [00:20:30] they have 52 homes that have 'em on there. The garage roofs have the solar collectors that collect sunlight in the summer in a glycol solution, that glycol solution gets transferred through pipes to a building where it passes by water, heats the water, the water then gets piped underground to heat rocks that stored underground. The rocks got heated up to 80 degrees Celsius until wintertime. They're insulated around them and in winter the whole thing is run in reverse and provides 100% of our winter time heating when snow is on the ground and you can't even tell this facility's [00:21:00] there because the rocks are under a park. Speaker 2:Well, yes, it's a, yeah, it's called seasonal heat storage, so it's a way you can actually store heat over the season and it's so inexpensive. I made a battery. Battery. Electricity is $300 a kilowatt hour. Rock energy is $1 a kilowatt hour, so it's cheaper in fact that the ice is $30 a kilowatt hour, $38 a kilowatt hour. Same with hot and cold water. They're all like one 10th the cost of batteries. There's also what's called pumped hydro electric power. When [00:21:30] you, you have two reservoirs, a and when you have excess electricity, you pump water up the hill. When you need electricity, you let the water drain down the hill. And so you basically, you don't lose water that way. And it's not a dam necessarily, but a reservoir. And it could, one of the reservoirs could be the ocean or a lake. And then, uh, there's concentrated solar power where you in the deserts where, because normally with photovoltaic tags, unless you have batteries, it's hard to store the electricity. Speaker 2:But if you have what's called concentrated solar power, you focus light off of mirrors onto the central tower, the tower as a fluid, molten nitrate [00:22:00] salt for example, that heats up and that fluid can be stored and used at night to generate electricity. By the past, the hot fluid by water creates steam from the water. The steam runs a steam turbine to generate electricity. So that's called concentrated solar power storage. And if you do this on a large scale, that's a lot of solar energy that can be stored batteries. Yeah. And you can use it at night or with when it's cloudy. And that's also one 10th the cost of batteries for electricity storage. It sounds like there's going to be a lot of potential solutions in the [00:22:30] future that you could incorporate into these 50 plans. Yeah, well these are all existing solutions but they're not on a large scale so we just need to scale them up to huge scale. Speaker 2:I read about your organization that you actually give grants out the solutions project. It's a nonprofit that um, I mean the goal is to take energy plans and educate the public and policymakers about them and try to engage the public. But part of their mission right now is to give out small grants to groups that mostly non profits [00:23:00] that have creative ideas of how to get information out better, how to make more effective change. I wanted to ask you about how this idea came into fruition. Yeah. Well, I mean, my whole career I've been, I started at Stanford as a professor in 1994 but you know, it was way back when I was a teenager and my goal was to try to solve, understand and solve air pollution problems and soon after climate problems. This was back in the 19 early 1980s in Los Altos. [00:23:30] So I've always had that goal and passion to try to understand and solve large scale pollution and climate problems. Speaker 2:But when I first started doing research at Stanford, I focused on the problems and understanding them, but I then did a lot of inner comparisons of energy technologies and their impacts on health and climate. Late 1990 started looking at wind energy in particular as a potential solution to some of these problems. And so did studies on the analysis of wind energy was with students as well. But then in around 2008 [00:24:00] I decided I had enough information, I wanted to start comparing different proposed energy solutions to climate and air pollution. So I did an inter comparison study value of what are the best technologies and that's when I came up with the conclusion that it was wind and water and solar power that were the best on nuclear and coal. With carbon capture, we're kind of more mediocre and then things like, you know, natural gas and biofuels were the worst in terms of health and climate and water supply and and land use and catastrophic risk and things like that. Speaker 2:But then the [00:24:30] next question was, well, if you have wind and water and solar is the best of technologies, can you actually then power the world with all the, with these technologies given, you know, resource limitations, land use limitations. And we did a study, that's why I started partnering with Mark Delucci at UC Berkeley and we concluded that it is possible. It's technically and economically possible, but there are social and political barriers. And we said, well, it's even technically possible by 2030 but for social and political reasons it's unlikely we can get to 100% until 2015 that really once we did a paper on that, [00:25:00] that was a global paper that's, you know, nobody controls the whole globe. So we eventually had to go down to state levels and country levels to see if it was possible to do a practical plan. Do you really think based on what's happened so far that will reach the goal of 100% by 2050 based on what you've done already? Speaker 2:I think there is a, there's a growing, I mean we're a lot further now than even two years ago. I mean I think people's mindset any more people are talking about getting to 100% so that in itself is growing exponentially in terms of how people were talking and thinking [00:25:30] about that catastrophic weather that's pushing this kind of attitude. Yeah, well it's a combination of problems are getting worse. The climate problems are getting worse and more people are saying we need to solve the problem. The insurance companies are saying it's an Oh my God issue. Yeah. So are there more people on board? But it's also fortunate that the costs of especially wind and solar and batteries, even batteries and in electric cars are coming down, especially the, when the electric power sector, people are suddenly thinking, wow, we could actually, we could have a high penetration of wind and solar because it's [00:26:00] so cheap that we can really ramp it up. Speaker 2:So it's kind of a combination of more people being aware of it and wanting to solve the problem. And simultaneously costs have come down and there've been technology improvements and existing technologies that are needed. So all the problems. So a lot of things are coming together, but there's still also growth, especially in many countries like you know, even though China for example, is putting in a lot of renewable energy, it's also putting in a lot of coal still. And that's troubling. And, but there are other countries in the world also growing and the pollution, the [00:26:30] emissions are still going up and a lot of places, although they're coming down and some other places, but you do see trends in several countries in Europe. So you can see their admissions are going down already. Uh, but not as fast as we need them to. We are going to experience some pretty wild weather. Speaker 2:Even we were on a hundred percent renewables today. By definition, I mean climate is the average of all weather events and so weather is very variable in the first place. But we do get more extreme weather with higher average temperatures. Yeah. On average, I mean this'll probably be one of the warmers if not the warmest year on record and an individual months [00:27:00] as well. But climate, again, you have to average over a long period look at the trends relevant, the actual value in a given year. It's really the trend that matters. Definitely the trend. It is everything is warming up and there were temperatures are over one degree Celsius higher than, uh, in the 18 hundreds. And you know, that's, that's significant on the rate of change. The temperature today is faster than any time, even since deglaciation from the last ice age. So the Paris agreement that, you know, there, they agreed to try to avoid two degrees Celsius, but it's really [00:27:30] one and a half degrees that a lot of people wanted, um, to avoid. And we're already at one degree, so we're only half a degree away from that. How many parts per million are we had already? We want, we should be at three 50 and where are we? Where are we today for a little over 400 parts per million. Yeah. Speaker 3:And so this is significant. I mean, I think sometimes we don't scare the public enough about what's coming down yet Speaker 2:in 50 years and oh yeah, no, the problem is actually much worse than most people think because half of the warming in the atmosphere is being [00:28:00] hidden by pollution and air pollution particles because they're both reflective in general and the enhanced cloudiness. So if you actually just cleaned up air pollution particles, which you want to do because they'd cause 90% of the air pollution health problems, which killed four to 7 million people every year as you clean up that air pollution, you actually make the warming worse because of the masking that's going on. And so that is another reason it's so urgent to not only eliminate the particles from a health point of view, but also the greenhouse [00:28:30] gases from a climate point of view simultaneously. And the only way you can simultaneously eliminate greenhouse gases and the particles is by changing the energy infrastructure by electrifying everything and producing that electricity from clean and renewable wind, water and solar power. There is a solution to this problem and that's changing the energy infrastructure of cities, states, countries in the world change your own home to the extent you can by electrifying everything. And if you can put solar on the roof, then you can provide that electricity from your own power. You can even add some batteries to [00:29:00] store it so you don't have to pay for the remaining power that you do use. If you do use it, you know, try to select policymakers who are more supportive of clean and renewable. Speaker 3:And here we are coming up on an election cycle and that's to me is extremely important and especially a congress that will pass something like this. Do you have a website that people can go to if they want to find out more about this project solutions project? Speaker 2:There's two websites that solutions project.org [00:29:30] that's one word. Then one hundred.org the number one hundred.org so that's a subgroup of the solutions project, which is basically the idea is to bring 100% clean and renewable energy to 100% of the people 100% Speaker 1:of the time. I really appreciate you being on method to the madness, so thank you very much. I thank you for having me on. Speaker 4:Okay. Speaker 1:You've been listening to method to the madness by weekly public fair show. Katie l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Eric Sorensen is CEO & Founder of award-winning Carbon Roots International, whose mission is to encourage and enable the adoption of sustainable green charcoal in Haiti & the broader developing world to reduce deforestation, create jobs, & improve lives.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness. I Biweekly Public Affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm Lisa Keifer and we're taking a field trip down to Stanford today to interview the clean energy mastermind. Professor Mark Jacobson. What do you do here at Stanford? Speaker 2:Well, I teach and do research and I study clean and renewable energy systems and air pollution [00:00:30] and climate problems and how to solve them through clean and renewable energy. Speaker 3:I read about you recently in the new republic. Bill McKibben has written a really thoughtful article saying that our current climate crisis, what we need to do, he likens it to what we did in World War II to gear up to fight the Nazis and the Japanese. And he mentioned you in the work that you're doing. He talks about the solutions you have that are ready right now for all 50 states in the United States. What is that project? Speaker 2:Well, we do research on developing [00:01:00] plans for states and countries and we've completed plans for all 50 states and also now working on 139 countries around the world using all renewables and yeah, the idea of the plan is to electrify all energy sectors. That's transportation, heating and cooling industry, agriculture, forestry and fishing and provide that electricity with clean and renewable energies such as wind and water and solar power, but combined with some energy storage combined with energy efficiency and some additional transmission. When did you come up [00:01:30] with this plan? Well, our first plan was in 2009 it was really a world plan, just gross numbers to see if it was possible to power the world entirely 100% with wind and water and solar power for all purposes. And it wasn't broken down into countries, but from a on a worldwide scale, if we're just looking at the raw numbers, there was possible because there's enough wind resource, there's enough solar resource and existing water resource. And also we looked at the materials required, we looked at the costs or we looked at the land use required and we found that all these are within reason and [00:02:00] then potentially possible to do. Speaker 3:How many years did it take you to come up with these very specific plans? [inaudible] right. Speaker 2:So then, uh, after that there was in 2009, and then subsequently we started working in 2011 on a state plans specifically for New York state that you got completed in 2013. So that took, why did you choose New York first? Well, I started working with some people, activists in New York, probably people who are fighting against natural gas, fracking. Hydrofracking they had wanted some alternative. What's [00:02:30] their, you know, what else can we do besides natural gas in the state of New York? And in this group was mark refollow, who's, I'm also an actor and a Marco cripples who is, um, he's a business person who lives actually in California and Josh Fox, who is a documentarian. And we kind of brainstormed and thought, well, why don't we take our energy plan for the world and squish it down to a state level answer. That's right. I did with some help with Mark Delucci, who's a doctor researcher at UC Berkeley. Speaker 2:Right. And also eventually got some students involved [00:03:00] and Reese Chris down a plan for New York, got some new data and uh, it took a while to get all the information we needed. But by 2013, we had a New York energy plan from 13 to now you've rolled out the rest of the 50 states plus 127 countries in the world. We're, we will correct the Xero since then. In the middle of completing the New York plan, we started a California energy plan. We thought, well, we have one for New York. Why not apply to another state? So we got more experience improving the plans as we went along. And we did one for Washington state [00:03:30] long at the same time. Uh, I thought, well, why not just do all 50 states? We can not about ties the process simultaneously. So we did that and we completed those plans in 2015 for all 50 states and then at the same time as we were completing that and we started working on thought, well, why not go to the world and go to all individual countries as many as we could. Speaker 2:And so we found data for 139 countries and that's what we're working on right now and try to complete that. Okay. How many people are on this team who had crunching the numbers? Well, going out into [00:04:00] the field since 2009 we've had about 80 scientists and students working on these energy plans, although there's kind of a core group of people who are doing most of the work. The group I talked about initially with Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox and Marco Cripples, we started a nonprofit together. It's called the solutions project. And the idea of this was, well, why not take these energy plans that were developing these scientific science-based plans, but then we try to take those plans and educate the public and policy makers about them and do outreach [00:04:30] and try to reach communities that might not normally be engaged in the sense to me when I read this article in then new republic, I thought, wow, they probably been working on this for years and yet it took this long to hear about it. Speaker 2:That must be the biggest challenge. Getting this information out to the lay person so that we can make political decisions in our communities to support it. Correct. I mean that's my opinion is that, you know, getting information out to large numbers of people. I mean keep in mind there are 7.3 billion people in [00:05:00] the world and you know, as a scientist I might reach a few hundred to a few thousand at most. And you know, even with a good outreach you might reach 100,000 or something like that. But we really need to reach hundreds of millions of people to have an impact worldwide. And so, so are you capitalizing on some of your successes? Like for instance, what are some states who are doing this right now and how do we find out about that? Yeah, we've actually had some really good success and feedback. So the states [00:05:30] of both New York and California have basically adopted a portion of our plans. We proposed 80% conversion to wind water and solar by 2030 and all energy sectors and 100% by 2050. California in New York have adopted a 50% conversion for the electricity sector, which is only one of those sectors by 2030. And they've also adopted some other energy efficiency goals. But part of that is because we publish these papers for those states. We, uh, talked with the staff members of the governors [00:06:00] and so they are right, they're aware of these plans and that it was possible. And so that enabled them to push the envelope into what policies, Speaker 3:but they're still not pushing it as far as you say they should. Correct. They're not at, what's the downside of that? Speaker 2:There is downside because it means we'll have climate problems that are persist for longer period of time and we'll have air pollution problems that will persist for longer. So we're still trying to inform them about the necessity of getting to 80% by 2030 in all sectors. Uh, so there was, there was a ways to go but um, we are making in roads I should say there is a house resolution [00:06:30] now based on our work, based on our 50 state plans, a house resolution five 40, which is calls for the United States to go to 100% clean renewable energy for all sectors by 2050. So that actually, well it's just a resolution, but if it did pass, if subsequent bills were passed to support it, it would actually get to the end goal that we proposed. I think it has 44 46 co-sponsors, including Nancy Pelosi as one of the co-sponsors. Speaker 2:All three Democratic presidential candidates actually supported a a hundred percent goals by 2050 [00:07:00] and Bernie Sanders had our maps on his website. Hillary Clinton, we have a video tape of her supporting 100% clean renewable energy by 2050 and Martin O'Malley was the first one to go out there with 100% by 2050. There were also three senators I've mentioned they were going to propose 100% renewable energy by 2050. I should also mention that the a hundred percent idea has galvanized lots of nonprofits, dozens and dozens of nonprofits that are no, uh, centered around this goal. And they've actually been also helped to convince cities [00:07:30] in many cities want to go to 100% clean renewable energy, including, you know, several in the United States into southern Canada and companies as well. There are at least 60 to 70 companies, including many of the major ones that want to go to 100% renewable energy, have committed to go to 100%. For example, Walmart today, apple and Starbucks, Johnson and Johnson, there are many of the top companies Speaker 3:on the ride over here. I was in horrible traffic and I couldn't help but thinking about how are you going to convince consumers to [00:08:00] buy electric cars? How will they afford it? Number one, are we going to have to have subsidy programs along with a national grid or community redundant grids? Where does that all fit into this? Speaker 2:Well, I think electric cars, I mean most people, once I drive an electric car, they never want to go back Speaker 3:of course, but how can they afford it? Like in let's talk about outside of the coast, well Speaker 2:there are many electric car companies now that are selling commodity cars and so and there is a $7,500 tax credit. So that basically [00:08:30] brings the price of an electric car, even a low cost electric car into the same cost as an equivalent gasoline car. So I think that the costs are equivalent and it's actually, it's a lot cheaper to actually drive an electric car because the cost of the fuel is one fourth to one fifth the cost of gasoline per mile driven. So over the life of a car, if you drive a car 15,000 miles per year for 15 years, you will save $20,000 in fuel cost. The main thing that people have been concerned about is range. And so many of these electric cars now [00:09:00] actually have longer range. I mean, of course the Tesla, which is the model s, it's 275 miles a range. Um, but the, you know, even the new lower cost Tesla, which hasn't been public yet, but as people have taken orders for it, it's the thing, it's over 200 mile range. Speaker 2:And then even the, the leaf I think is over a hundred, 125 miles. Right? And so that's the limiting factor for most comedians. 95% of commutes or all the electric cars are within range. And you can charge them in your home if you have just a regular electric plug outlet or, or a special [00:09:30] charger that can be put in your home. So that's an advantage. Another advantage of electric cars is you can charge them in your house or in your garage or just a gasoline car. You can't, you know the disadvantages of course it's, it takes longer to refuel and there when you're, when you're out on the road, there's currently fewer charging stations, but there are a lot of charging stations out there now and there are a lot more coming and there is a plan to roll out many more. Yeah, there really has to, if we want to do this on a large scale, we need a lot more charging stations. But the electric grid is there, is there, it's really a question of hooking up new charging stations to the [00:10:00] grid and these charging stations don't take up much space. Speaker 3:We're doing this planning state by state. Are you also, are you setting up redundant grid systems in each state so that, you know there is a national grid, but are they going to be able to, let's say there's a climate catastrophe in one part of the country, will the other pieces of that grid be able to pick up the difference? Speaker 2:Yeah. Well the grid is interconnected already across the United States. So there the actual flow of electricity is limited by the size of the transmission lines. So we would need, we've got to 100% we will need [00:10:30] to expansion of the transmission grid or at least increasing the capacity of the grid so that you can send more electricity long distances. For example, we will have a lot of wind turbines in the great plains or we already do, but we'd have more and we might want to transfer more of that electricity to the east coast because the electricity is so cheap. The generation is so cheap and the great plains, it's, it's 2 cents a kilowatt hour now with the subsidy and in three and a half without a subsidy and that compares to natural gas, which is five to 6 cents a kilowatt hour as the actual cost of energy. Wind is the cheapest form [00:11:00] of electricity in the U s but a lot of it is in places that are far away and so transmission would be beneficial. Speaker 2:It also helps because if the wind's not blowing in one place, it is usually pulling somewhere else or having a more interconnected transmission system would actually make things more efficient. Same thing with solar. I mean it's not always sunny in some places because you're all in the clouds and the u s there are some long distance where it's called high voltage direct current or HVDC long distance transmission lines going up. I mean there's like what's called the clean power line or it's a company that has [00:11:30] proposals for several long distance corridors across the u s and I think they've had one or two of them already approved in that. They may even be building, but I can't say for sure what stage they're out. Yeah, Speaker 3:kind of controversially have left off nuclear power in your renewables. Can you tell me why you've taken that stance? Speaker 2:Yeah, it's interesting because the other people who are supportive of nuclear power just say, you know, I'm biased against nuclear, but you know, this is all based on a scientific research that while nuclear is, is better than a lot of energy [00:12:00] technologies such as coal, gas and oil. For the most part, it's not as good as clean renewable energy such as wind, water and solar. And that's just a scientific conclusion. I mean, aside from the fact that it, it takes so long to put up a nuclear plant between 10 and 19 years between planning and operation and we don't have the time. It's the same two to five years is typical for a wind or solar farm. So not only do we delay getting that energy, but it also, right now it costs, uh, about four times more than onshore wind. So it's 12 and a half cents a kilowatt hour [00:12:30] for the unsubsidized cost of nuclear versus the unsubsidized costs of onshore wind is three and a half cents a kilowatt hour subsidizes 2 cents. Speaker 2:So we're talking one fourth of the cost. So not only do you have to wait three times longer to get the nuclear up, but you also have to pay four times more for the same power. And that's the only at the beginning. The other problems are, some people say even more severe, I mean there's a meltdown risk. 1.5% of all nuclear reactors ever built up, melted down to some degree. Nuclear weapons proliferation risk. How many intergovernmental panel on climate change says there's, [00:13:00] there's robust evidence. And high agreement that a nuclear energy proliferation leads to nuclear weapons proliferation. And this is because several countries of the world who have developed weapons secretly under the guise of civilian nuclear energy programs, there's waste issues. We haven't figured out what to do with all the waste that accumulates and you have to store it for 300,000 years and that takes a lot of energy. Speaker 2:That's in costs of storing out that don't, aren't even accounted for in the cost of energy today of the nuclear. Yeah, and then there's a, the carbon dioxide emissions, people say that, oh, nuclear is a zero carbon. Well, it's not [00:13:30] zero carbon whatsoever. I mean you have to, when you're using the uranium and you have to mine the uranium that takes fossil fuels, then you have to refine it. It's a very energy intensive process to refine uranium and you have to do that throughout the life of the reactor. Fossil fuel, carbon dioxide emissions, and there are other air pollutant emissions. And the fact that it takes so long to put up a nuclear plant, the difference in the time it takes to put up the nuclear plant versus the wind or solar plant, you're running the irregular electric power grid. And so you have to assign those emissions to the nuclear as well. Speaker 2:And so we're talking when you [00:14:00] actually add everything up, it's between six and 24 times more carbon and air pollution per kilowatt hour compared to wind energy. So no brainer. Yes, it's not just one problem. If you, you can't just solve one problem and say, oh, nuclear is good. You really have to solve instead of 5% idea. I mean, I can remember reading in the 90s that thought that had to be a part of the mix to put a little people in the world. So I met a lot of people, nuclear supporters think that nuclear is necessary because it's uh, it's very high energy density. So you can, you can, you can provide a lot of power [00:14:30] in a small area. But the fact is it has so many side effects that, um, you know, it's just not as good at this point. If nothing else worked, then yeah, maybe try that. Speaker 2:You've, you're up against a massive opponent and that's the carbon industry. I'm surprised they're not pushing back more. I mean, I get more pushback from nuclear people, different philosophy people. They know that they have enough power and control the, you know, they don't have to respond to, you know, studies or other people will think about them. They can just, just keep doing what they're doing. And they, you know, they find that they don't really need to respond. [00:15:00] But if we get a congress that will pass this plan, well yeah, no, our plans would have them completely phased out and they would be eliminated. So they should be worried. But you know, on the other hand, there's, most of the energy is still produced by fossil fuels by far most of the energy worldwide. And so it's such a, such a large penetration still the, you know, they haven't felt any risk it of, of disappearing. Speaker 2:But you know the writing is on the wall and they will eventually disappears. It's a question of time. I was reading that Washington [00:15:30] State is actually the farthest along in terms of percentage of renewables toward that goal of 100% in 2050 it is, but it's because of hydroelectric power that's existing hydroelectric in the states. You won't be building more dams. You're going to make present dams more efficient. Right. Our plans call for no new conventional hydroelectric dams and just making existing dams more efficient. I should point out that there are, in the United States there are 80,000 dams and only I think 10,000 produce electricity. [00:16:00] So there most of the dams in the U s are non power dams and so in theory you could power some of those without actually creating a new dam just to create power from them. And you could also like, cause a lot of people want to remove dams and so there are literally 70,000 dams available to remove without reading moving. Speaker 2:For example, the powering dams. The reason hydroelectric power is so useful in the solution is that a hydroelectric reservoirs basically a big battery and when you need like the windows and all this blow in the centers and all the shine. [00:16:30] And so when, when you, let's say you have no way to know sunlight texted, very valuable to have hydroelectric power cause you can, you can basically turn it off and on instantaneously. Uh, and then allowing it to provide the power when you need it to fill in gaps and supply. What's your plan for say Louisiana? We just experienced horrible rains like the thousand year rains and flooding. What would a state like that look like with your plan? The South in general, it was pretty a very weak winds except off shore. Um, but they have good solar radiation, [00:17:00] although it's not as good as the south west, which has more clear skies because there are more cloudy skies in the southeast, but there's a lot of sunlight in Louisiana. Speaker 2:So solar is a major part. Then they have offshore wind as well. So those are offshore platforms? Yeah, they've offshore platforms, but offshore wind and solar are the two major sources there might be advantageous Tulsa to have transmission into the state from other states that have much greater wind to the west. What is the most challenging state or country that you've had to come [00:17:30] up with a plan for so far? I would say Singapore basically it's a very small country that is very high population density so it's population really covers most of the land so there's not a lot of room to put clean renewable energy. You have rooftops and the rooftops aren't sufficient enough but there is offshore wind as well. Um, so we might have to go to off shore floating solar. In fact, I should point out though that that's only if we decided the Singapore had to be powered entirely with its own energy. Speaker 2:It could actually just transmit energy [00:18:00] from nearby. There is a solution to that problem too, just from transmitting from outside of it. But if you're just wanting to have it provided its own energy, these kinds of, some of these smaller countries like Gibraltar has a similar issue, but there is a solution to everything. If you add transmission, people complained that the sun isn't shining, but if you do have batteries you can then provide more reliable electricity either either back to the greater for your own use in your home. So basically if you have batteries and solar on your roof, you know you're a power plant and you can provide, uh, you have the ability to [00:18:30] smooth out like the rest of the grid. Tesla bought solar city and so they want to really, Tulsa wants to become a battery storage company as well as a motor company. Speaker 2:And so the idea is to take the solar panels on the roof and then use batteries to store that electricity. So integrate the batteries with the solar panels on the roof a lot more and even make roofing material that has solar panels in them, which is a great thing to do to integrate batteries with rooftop solar. But are there technologies on the horizon that wouldn't [00:19:00] be called batteries that they're a whole different kind of, yeah, actually. Well we look when we developed plans for all 50 states a, we did a study where we said can we keep the grid reliable over the continental United States? It's 48 states and we found that we can, if we combine generation of wind and solar, which are what are called intermittent or does wind, does nose blow and the sun doesn't always shine with low cost heat and cold storage and electricity storage. Speaker 2:I should point out that first of all, if you electrify all sectors, if you electrify heating, cooling [00:19:30] industry transportation, you make it easier to match power demand on the grid because there are a lot more low, what are call loads of energy require more energy requirements that are what are called flexible. You don't have to hook a wind turbine up to your car to drive the car, your battery. So you can charge the car anytime of day or night by electrifying all sectors. And then you use low cost heat and cold storage. So, for example, ice, you can have an ice cube under a building in fact at Stanford has had an ice cube in our building since 1998 and during the night when electricity [00:20:00] prices low, it produced the ice. And then during the day instead of using high cost electricity for air conditioning during the day, you would run the water through the ice. Speaker 2:And so you basically, by using cold storage in ice, you eliminate electricity use in the afternoon and during the peak. And you can do the same thing with hot water and cold water. Uh, you can store, yeah, you can store heat and uh, in water and store cold and water as well. But then there's another, I mean there's a community in Canada, Oca, Tokes Canada, which is an hour south of Calgary that [00:20:30] they have 52 homes that have 'em on there. The garage roofs have the solar collectors that collect sunlight in the summer in a glycol solution, that glycol solution gets transferred through pipes to a building where it passes by water, heats the water, the water then gets piped underground to heat rocks that stored underground. The rocks got heated up to 80 degrees Celsius until wintertime. They're insulated around them and in winter the whole thing is run in reverse and provides 100% of our winter time heating when snow is on the ground and you can't even tell this facility's [00:21:00] there because the rocks are under a park. Speaker 2:Well, yes, it's a, yeah, it's called seasonal heat storage, so it's a way you can actually store heat over the season and it's so inexpensive. I made a battery. Battery. Electricity is $300 a kilowatt hour. Rock energy is $1 a kilowatt hour, so it's cheaper in fact that the ice is $30 a kilowatt hour, $38 a kilowatt hour. Same with hot and cold water. They're all like one 10th the cost of batteries. There's also what's called pumped hydro electric power. When [00:21:30] you, you have two reservoirs, a and when you have excess electricity, you pump water up the hill. When you need electricity, you let the water drain down the hill. And so you basically, you don't lose water that way. And it's not a dam necessarily, but a reservoir. And it could, one of the reservoirs could be the ocean or a lake. And then, uh, there's concentrated solar power where you in the deserts where, because normally with photovoltaic tags, unless you have batteries, it's hard to store the electricity. Speaker 2:But if you have what's called concentrated solar power, you focus light off of mirrors onto the central tower, the tower as a fluid, molten nitrate [00:22:00] salt for example, that heats up and that fluid can be stored and used at night to generate electricity. By the past, the hot fluid by water creates steam from the water. The steam runs a steam turbine to generate electricity. So that's called concentrated solar power storage. And if you do this on a large scale, that's a lot of solar energy that can be stored batteries. Yeah. And you can use it at night or with when it's cloudy. And that's also one 10th the cost of batteries for electricity storage. It sounds like there's going to be a lot of potential solutions in the [00:22:30] future that you could incorporate into these 50 plans. Yeah, well these are all existing solutions but they're not on a large scale so we just need to scale them up to huge scale. Speaker 2:I read about your organization that you actually give grants out the solutions project. It's a nonprofit that um, I mean the goal is to take energy plans and educate the public and policymakers about them and try to engage the public. But part of their mission right now is to give out small grants to groups that mostly non profits [00:23:00] that have creative ideas of how to get information out better, how to make more effective change. I wanted to ask you about how this idea came into fruition. Yeah. Well, I mean, my whole career I've been, I started at Stanford as a professor in 1994 but you know, it was way back when I was a teenager and my goal was to try to solve, understand and solve air pollution problems and soon after climate problems. This was back in the 19 early 1980s in Los Altos. [00:23:30] So I've always had that goal and passion to try to understand and solve large scale pollution and climate problems. Speaker 2:But when I first started doing research at Stanford, I focused on the problems and understanding them, but I then did a lot of inner comparisons of energy technologies and their impacts on health and climate. Late 1990 started looking at wind energy in particular as a potential solution to some of these problems. And so did studies on the analysis of wind energy was with students as well. But then in around 2008 [00:24:00] I decided I had enough information, I wanted to start comparing different proposed energy solutions to climate and air pollution. So I did an inter comparison study value of what are the best technologies and that's when I came up with the conclusion that it was wind and water and solar power that were the best on nuclear and coal. With carbon capture, we're kind of more mediocre and then things like, you know, natural gas and biofuels were the worst in terms of health and climate and water supply and and land use and catastrophic risk and things like that. Speaker 2:But then the [00:24:30] next question was, well, if you have wind and water and solar is the best of technologies, can you actually then power the world with all the, with these technologies given, you know, resource limitations, land use limitations. And we did a study, that's why I started partnering with Mark Delucci at UC Berkeley and we concluded that it is possible. It's technically and economically possible, but there are social and political barriers. And we said, well, it's even technically possible by 2030 but for social and political reasons it's unlikely we can get to 100% until 2015 that really once we did a paper on that, [00:25:00] that was a global paper that's, you know, nobody controls the whole globe. So we eventually had to go down to state levels and country levels to see if it was possible to do a practical plan. Do you really think based on what's happened so far that will reach the goal of 100% by 2050 based on what you've done already? Speaker 2:I think there is a, there's a growing, I mean we're a lot further now than even two years ago. I mean I think people's mindset any more people are talking about getting to 100% so that in itself is growing exponentially in terms of how people were talking and thinking [00:25:30] about that catastrophic weather that's pushing this kind of attitude. Yeah, well it's a combination of problems are getting worse. The climate problems are getting worse and more people are saying we need to solve the problem. The insurance companies are saying it's an Oh my God issue. Yeah. So are there more people on board? But it's also fortunate that the costs of especially wind and solar and batteries, even batteries and in electric cars are coming down, especially the, when the electric power sector, people are suddenly thinking, wow, we could actually, we could have a high penetration of wind and solar because it's [00:26:00] so cheap that we can really ramp it up. Speaker 2:So it's kind of a combination of more people being aware of it and wanting to solve the problem. And simultaneously costs have come down and there've been technology improvements and existing technologies that are needed. So all the problems. So a lot of things are coming together, but there's still also growth, especially in many countries like you know, even though China for example, is putting in a lot of renewable energy, it's also putting in a lot of coal still. And that's troubling. And, but there are other countries in the world also growing and the pollution, the [00:26:30] emissions are still going up and a lot of places, although they're coming down and some other places, but you do see trends in several countries in Europe. So you can see their admissions are going down already. Uh, but not as fast as we need them to. We are going to experience some pretty wild weather. Speaker 2:Even we were on a hundred percent renewables today. By definition, I mean climate is the average of all weather events and so weather is very variable in the first place. But we do get more extreme weather with higher average temperatures. Yeah. On average, I mean this'll probably be one of the warmers if not the warmest year on record and an individual months [00:27:00] as well. But climate, again, you have to average over a long period look at the trends relevant, the actual value in a given year. It's really the trend that matters. Definitely the trend. It is everything is warming up and there were temperatures are over one degree Celsius higher than, uh, in the 18 hundreds. And you know, that's, that's significant on the rate of change. The temperature today is faster than any time, even since deglaciation from the last ice age. So the Paris agreement that, you know, there, they agreed to try to avoid two degrees Celsius, but it's really [00:27:30] one and a half degrees that a lot of people wanted, um, to avoid. And we're already at one degree, so we're only half a degree away from that. How many parts per million are we had already? We want, we should be at three 50 and where are we? Where are we today for a little over 400 parts per million. Yeah. Speaker 3:And so this is significant. I mean, I think sometimes we don't scare the public enough about what's coming down yet Speaker 2:in 50 years and oh yeah, no, the problem is actually much worse than most people think because half of the warming in the atmosphere is being [00:28:00] hidden by pollution and air pollution particles because they're both reflective in general and the enhanced cloudiness. So if you actually just cleaned up air pollution particles, which you want to do because they'd cause 90% of the air pollution health problems, which killed four to 7 million people every year as you clean up that air pollution, you actually make the warming worse because of the masking that's going on. And so that is another reason it's so urgent to not only eliminate the particles from a health point of view, but also the greenhouse [00:28:30] gases from a climate point of view simultaneously. And the only way you can simultaneously eliminate greenhouse gases and the particles is by changing the energy infrastructure by electrifying everything and producing that electricity from clean and renewable wind, water and solar power. There is a solution to this problem and that's changing the energy infrastructure of cities, states, countries in the world change your own home to the extent you can by electrifying everything. And if you can put solar on the roof, then you can provide that electricity from your own power. You can even add some batteries to [00:29:00] store it so you don't have to pay for the remaining power that you do use. If you do use it, you know, try to select policymakers who are more supportive of clean and renewable. Speaker 3:And here we are coming up on an election cycle and that's to me is extremely important and especially a congress that will pass something like this. Do you have a website that people can go to if they want to find out more about this project solutions project? Speaker 2:There's two websites that solutions project.org [00:29:30] that's one word. Then one hundred.org the number one hundred.org so that's a subgroup of the solutions project, which is basically the idea is to bring 100% clean and renewable energy to 100% of the people 100% Speaker 1:of the time. I really appreciate you being on method to the madness, so thank you very much. I thank you for having me on. Speaker 4:Okay. Speaker 1:You've been listening to method to the madness by weekly public fair show. Katie l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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A special netcast today, following the Democratic National Convention. Former Maryland Governor and presidential contender Martin O’Malley and former DNC chair and Senator Fred Harris appeared at a gathering of 21st Century Democrats held during Convention Week in Philadelphia. And Bill Press talks with Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women.   Martin O’Malley From the 21st Century Democrats gathering in Philadelphia, Martin O’Malley addresses the group and then sits down to praise the Sanders movement for making the party’s platform the most progressive in history and how to fight the “fascist, racist, bigoted” Donald Trump.   Fred Harris Fred Harris has been a leading figure in progressive e politics since the 1960s. He sat down with us in Philadelphia for some reflections on the past … and the future.   Terry O’Neill Bill Press interviews Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women.   Jim Hightower Allowing profiteering predators to roam our public parks.

Former Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley chatted with the Kinder Institute's Ryan Holeywell while he was in town meeting with the mayor of Houston and other local leaders. O'Malley discussed his new gig as chairman of the advisory board of the MetroLab Network, which works to promote data collaboration between cities and universities. Then he spoke about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and his short-lived 2016 presidential campaign.

Donald Trump's intimidation campaign against Judge Gonzalo Curiel sounds mighty familiar to Judge Vaughn Walker, our first guest. After presiding over same-sex marriage litigation in California, he was the subject of attacks claiming that he was too biased to judge the case because of his identity. Then, former Martin O’Malley deputy campaign manager Lis Smith discusses Hillary Clinton’s historic victory, her coming race against Trump, and the future of Bernie Sanders’s base.

Martin O'Malley brought an impressive resume to his 2016 White House run: a young, former governor with progressive results. But it never seemed to stick. He was overwhelmed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and overshadowed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). In his first major interview on the race, O'Malley dissects what went wrong and dishes out a bit of blame. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Governor Martin O'Malley sits down with POLITICO's Glenn Thrush in Johnston, Iowa, to discuss what motivates him to keep campaigning despite low poll numbers, his parents' influence on his political career, the Celtic punk band The Pogues and why voting has become an "act of protest."

Megan takes on the two frontrunners for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and submits them to the rigorous Superiority Matrix. Martin O'Malley is forgotten and continues to be alone and sad.

Clinton, Sanders highlight big differences Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders drew sharp contrasts with each other at a CNN Democratic town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday -- exactly one week before voters there attend the first in the nation caucuses. Clinton said she was "really touched" by President Barack Obama's praise for her in a recent interview as she tried to portray herself as the most effective potential guardian of his legacy. She pushed back against questions that asked why some younger voters are less enthusiastic about her candidacy than that of Sanders. And pressed on whether she was late in addressing income inequality, she said she has spent decades combating inequality of all kinds. Clinton asked why young people think she's 'dishonest' "Don't get discouraged," Clinton said. "It's hard. If it were easy, hey, there wouldn't be any contest. But it's not easy. There are very different visions, different values, different forces at work, and you have to have somebody who is a proven fighter -- somebody who has taken them on and won, and kept going, and will do that as president." Passionate final argument Sanders, meanwhile, hit Clinton hard over Iraq, trade, the Keystone Pipeline and Wall Street regulation as he drove home a passionate final argument to Iowa voters. He sought to portray himself as the true personification of change in the Democratic race for the White House. He argued that though Clinton has wide experience, she was wrong on key issues. "We need a political revolution," he said. "We are touching a nerve with the American people who understand that establishment politics is just not good enough." Bernie Sanders' political career 13 photos: Bernie Sanders' political career Sanders dismissed Clinton's political record, seeking to prove he was closer to the Democratic Party base and just as prepared to be president as Clinton. "I voted against the war in Iraq ... Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq," Sanders said. "I led the effort against Wall Street deregulation. See where Hillary Clinton was on this issue." "On day one, I said the Keystone Pipeline was a dumb idea. Why did it take Hillary Clinton a long time before she came into opposition to the Keystone Pipeline? I didn't have to think hard about opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership. It took Hillary Clinton a long time to come on board that." He also warned unapologetically that taxes would rise if he is elected President, especially to pay for his Medicare-for-all health care plan. Bernie Sanders will raise taxes to pay for health care Sanders argued, however, that the taxes are worth it, given what American families will save in premiums. And, living up to his image as a self-declared Democratic socialist, he warned corporations and the richest Americans that they would pay more. "Yes, you are going to start paying for your fair share of taxes," Sanders said. "I demand that Wall Street start paying its fair share of taxes." Sense of humor For a candidate who has been caricatured as overly serious, Sanders' sense of humor came through at the town hall. He laughed with ease during exchanges with moderator Chris Cuomo and boasted of his athletic prowess as an elementary school basketball player. Clinton, meanwhile, hugged Obama close, and said she was deeply affected by an interview that Obama conducted with Politico in which he appeared, without making a formal endorsement, to argue Clinton was uniquely qualified for the presidency. "I was really touched and gratified when I saw that," Clinton said, relating how her relationship with her former 2008 Democratic primary rival developed into a close friendship when she served as his first-term secretary of state. The Democratic presidential candidates appeared one after the other for a half hour each at the town hall meeting at Drake University. The forum will showcase the contrast emerging between Clinton, the national front-runner and Obama's first secretary of state, and Sanders, who is mounting a stronger than expected challenge. Long shot candidate Martin O'Malley also appeared on stage and argued that he represented a generational change in politics that neither Sanders nor Clinton could match. Latest polling Latest polling shows Clinton and Sanders locked in a tight contest in Iowa. In the most recent CNN Poll of Polls, Sanders edges Clinton 46-percent to 44-percent in Iowa, with O'Malley at 4-percent. Hillary Clinton's career in the spotlight 50 photos: Hillary Clinton's career in the spotlight And in a new CNN/ORC national poll published on Monday, Clinton led Sanders 52-percent to 38-percent with former Maryland Gov. O'Malley way back on 2-percent. Though the survey showed a significant cushion for Clinton, her advantage was smaller than at any time since September. The poll showed women, non-whites, self-identified Democrats, and those over age 50 breaking sharply for Clinton. Men, white voters, independents who lean Democratic and younger voters are more likely to support Sanders. The Iowa contest is particularly important to Clinton, who lost the state in 2008, setting in motion Obama's path to the White House. A victory for Sanders could reshape the entire Democratic race while a Clinton win could quell jitters in her camp and help put her on the path to the nomination. Clinton, however, insisted she wasn't worried. "I'm proud of the campaign we've run and what we've put out there before the American people," she said. "It's a tough campaign and it should be because it's the toughest job in the world."

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O'Malley: We need to shake out of 'this trickle-down nonsense' O'Malley to critics: I'm in it to win it

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders drew sharp contrasts with each other at a CNN Democratic town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday -- exactly one week before voters there attend the first in the nation caucuses. Clinton said she was "really touched" by President Barack Obama's praise for her in a recent interview as she tried to portray herself as the most effective potential guardian of his legacy. She pushed back against questions that asked why some younger voters are less enthusiastic about her candidacy than that of Sanders. And pressed on whether she was late in addressing income inequality, she said she has spent decades combating inequality of all kinds. Clinton asked why young people think she's 'dishonest' Clinton asked why young people think she's 'dishonest' 02:47 "Don't get discouraged," Clinton said. "It's hard. If it were easy, hey, there wouldn't be any contest. But it's not easy. There are very different visions, different values, different forces at work, and you have to have somebody who is a proven fighter -- somebody who has taken them on and won, and kept going, and will do that as president." Passionate final argument Sanders, meanwhile, hit Clinton hard over Iraq, trade, the Keystone Pipeline and Wall Street regulation as he drove home a passionate final argument to Iowa voters. He sought to portray himself as the true personification of change in the Democratic race for the White House. He argued that though Clinton has wide experience, she was wrong on key issues. "We need a political revolution," he said. "We are touching a nerve with the American people who understand that establishment politics is just not good enough." Bernie Sanders' political career 13 photos: Bernie Sanders' political career Sanders dismissed Clinton's political record, seeking to prove he was closer to the Democratic Party base and just as prepared to be president as Clinton. "I voted against the war in Iraq ... Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq," Sanders said. "I led the effort against Wall Street deregulation. See where Hillary Clinton was on this issue." "On day one, I said the Keystone Pipeline was a dumb idea. Why did it take Hillary Clinton a long time before she came into opposition to the Keystone Pipeline? I didn't have to think hard about opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership. It took Hillary Clinton a long time to come on board that." READ: Town hall fact check He also warned unapologetically that taxes would rise if he is elected President, especially to pay for his Medicare-for-all health care plan. Bernie Sanders will raise taxes to pay for health care Bernie Sanders will raise taxes to pay for health care 00:59 "We will raise taxes. Yes we will," Sanders said. Sanders argued, however, that the taxes are worth it, given what American families will save in premiums. And, living up to his image as a self-declared Democratic socialist, he warned corporations and the richest Americans that they would pay more. "Yes, you are going to start paying for your fair share of taxes," Sanders said. "I demand that Wall Street start paying its fair share of taxes." Sense of humor For a candidate who has been caricatured as overly serious, Sanders' sense of humor came through at the town hall. He laughed with ease during exchanges with moderator Chris Cuomo and boasted of his athletic prowess as an elementary school basketball player. Clinton, meanwhile, hugged Obama close, and said she was deeply affected by an interview that Obama conducted with Politico in which he appeared, without making a formal endorsement, to argue Clinton was uniquely qualified for the presidency. "I was really touched and gratified when I saw that," Clinton said, relating how her relationship with her former 2008 Democratic primary rival developed into a close friendship when she served as his first-term secretary of state. The Democratic presidential candidates appeared one after the other for a half hour each at the town hall meeting at Drake University. The forum will showcase the contrast emerging between Clinton, the national front-runner and Obama's first secretary of state, and Sanders, who is mounting a stronger than expected challenge. Long shot candidate Martin O'Malley also appeared on stage and argued that he represented a generational change in politics that neither Sanders nor Clinton could match.

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John and Sagar look at the Democratic candidates for US president for the 2016 elections.  Hillary has a long political history with national, and international reach.  Bernie Sanders is appealing to the youth base, with his 'For the working people' stance.  Finally we have Martin O'Malley a third place candidate that looks great, but has no national appeal at this time.Listen here:Download: mp3  |  Subscribe: Feed

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with Angela Thomas and Rodney Smith Today's Topics: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Candel Light Vigil & Democratic Presidential Candidates in Las Vegas To listen or to Call in: (347) 826-9600 Press option 1 to talk Listen in through your computer by clicking here:

Jay, Terrence, and Micah discuss the militia situation in Oregon, Trump being used in an ad for terrorists, Martin O'Malley, the drug war that wages in Mexico, and much more.

JAMISON WEBB (@jamisonwebb) and JOHN SABINE (@jsabine214) close their year out with the PopFury Podcast! We talk about the Beatles music being released, giving joints to the homeless, Martin O'Malley's lonely political rally, the sadness of Stuart Scott's passing and Jamison's culling of his CD collection. SHOW NOTES 0:00 Intro 1:45 Beatles music is finally available on streaming music sites. Jamison shares Uber small talk tips. "We have $3,000 for joints. Great. How much would it cost to feed them? $2,000? Let's do the joints..." 9:45 A Denver non-profit gave away marijuana joints to the homeless. Jamison and John have no concept of weight measurements. 16:10 A priest was suspended for riding a Hoverboard during Christmas mass. John recalls some grooving religious bands and his high school religion identity project. 24:35 Donald Trump tied Pope Francis as the second most admired person in the world. Sabine airs his suspicions about the older generation of voters and the boogeyman. "I'm a very unique dude--I listen to HAMILTON and I want to vote for Bernie Sanders. I'm a snowflake." 31:40 Democratic Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley held a political rally...where only one person showed up. 36:10 John thinks Will Smith's Concussion movie was just "fine" 38:50 Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the opportunity to play Anakin in the prequels. "I want to know how many things have to go wrong or right for Leo to be your first choice and Hayden Christiansen to be second behind Leo." 42:00 Stuart Scott's death made Jamison cry. John reveals which episode of The Office made him tear up. 44:50 A Tae Kwon Do teacher knocked out his 5-year-old student. John's equipment malfunctions and Jasmison eulogizes him. Jamison's childhood sports background is suspect at best. 54:35 Jamison just cleared out BOXES of CDs he's been holding on to. We explore his fascination with liner notes. 1:02:40 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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In the latest Lions of Liberty debate reaction show, Marc Clair gathers a pride of liberty lions to break down the third Democratic Debate. Marc welcomes in Lions regulars Brian McWilliams and Howie Snowdon, along with special guest, the original Blue Republican, Robin Koerner! They discuss Hillary Clinton’s masterful ability to avoid actually answering questions, how Bernie Sanders is able to tap into a commonly held sense of economic injustice, and look at the pros and cons of Martin O’Malley. Even in discussing a Democratic debate, the conversation inevitably turns to Donald Trump and how he is capturing so much attention with his masterful use of bold statements and general wizardry. They cap things off with some bold predictions for how the Democratic wing of the election cycle might play out.

Tune in today as Civil Chat with Lee looks at the fallout from the Democratic Debate, Hilary, The "Bern", Martin O'Malley's ridiculous antics and much much more. This is my 60 minute podcast.

FULL 3rd Democratic Presidential Debate New Hampshire 12/19/15 Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley

Democratic Presidential Candidates in this debate: Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State Martin O'Malley, Former Governor of Maryland Bernie Sanders, United States Senator

Our first interview! On the show is Justin Renquist of the Superdelegates Task Force Army? What? Superdelegates? Who are they and why do I care? You care because Hillary has done so much backroom dealing that she has a VASTLY larger group of these special delegates who DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE by the will of the people! How to fight them? By letting them know we're watching and, as most of them are elected officials, we can vote them out of office! Justin tells us how to get involved. Dr. K. points out that even in the shadow of the Laquan MacDonald murder, although Martin O'Malley and Bernie were there, Hillary skipped the Black Lives Matter candidates forum. (Or is she in the GOP now? They all gave it a pass, except for Ben Carson.) Oh, and Hillary snubs MoveOn.org, too. Dr. K.'s theory? With so many superdelegates spoken for, Hillary  feels she can coast to the nomination. It's time to get involved, and make Hillary FEEL THE BERN!

An impressionistic audio piece expressing an individual response to the presidential debates. I almost called this episode Get on the stick and mess around. Because that's what I did.Doctor Carson: pathological child-molester?     Get on the stick and mess around.      Not supposed to be like this.Bernie!     Rand Paul and Jeb Bush get fired.        Donald Trump faked the moon landing.     Obama's legacy.Pot smoking socialist.      Martin O'Malley: truck driving loser.       Trump takes the mic.     The American dream is stupid.Exercise Hillary.     Comprehensive substitute truth.     Bernie talks.     Hillary on Wall Street.      The Big Lie.    

Meg (Matt's mostly silent but nevertheless awesome sister) joins us in-studio to go over the second Democratic primary debate.   Sanders stumbled on one of the questions, but nobody on stage seemed to notice Clinton justifying her cozy Wall Street ties... because 9/11. Speaking of going unnoticed, Martin O'Malley was on stage, and seemed to be there for the sole purpose of reminding the moderators when it was time for a commercial break.     You can find the Godless Rebelution around the Internet at these links: Podbean Facebook Twitter You can also send us hate-mail, show ideas, questions, corrections, whines, and rants at:  GodlessRebelution@gmail.com  ~ OR ~ Send us a text or leave us a voicemail message at: 330-81-REBEL

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair convenes another session of “Libertarians in Living Rooms Drinking Liquor” to recap the most cordial (and boring) presidential debate ever held: the 2nd Democratic Debate. Marc is joined by Lions co-founders John “Odie” Odermatt and Brian McWilliams as well as Philadelphia-famous, reformed progressive JB Lubin.  They dive right into hot debate action, discussing Hillary’s amazing skill of talking at length without saying anything at all, and her magical ability to transform questions about Wall Street donations into a speech on 9/11. They also look at Martin O’Malley’s surprisingly spunky showing on foreign policy before examining Bernie Sanders’ bizarre assertion that climate change causes terrori [...]

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On today’s episode of the show, we’re looking at who Hillary Clinton could choose to be her running mate on the ticket. Clinton even with the rise of Bernie Sanders, still appears to be far-in-away the most likely nominee for the Democratic party, and will have to make a choice that can compensate for her … More Who would be Hillary Clinton’s running mate?

Another week, another GOP debate tonight in Colorado - and the Republicans have a new front-runner: Dr. Ben Carson, whose mild-mannered demeanor distracts listeners from all the whack-a-doo theories and policy positions he seems to believe in. Or maybe that's what they like about him. At any rate, pundits are predicting that this debate could make or break Jeb Bush, who still leads the field with PAC money but is apparently struggling to pay his campaign staff. Pass the popcorn. In the meantime on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is still enjoying a very excellent October, Bernie Sanders is still in the game, and Martin O'Malley is hoping to reap the benefits of Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee dropping out of the race. In other news: John Boehner is getting out of Dodge while Paul Ryan is poised to become the next Speaker of the House. We predict very little changes there, except the so-called Freedom Caucus will likely make getting things done even tougher. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss politics from a progressive point of view.

How would you stand up a government after the original is gone?  John and Sagar look at this question.  This conversation starts after looking at the current 2016 US election cycle currently under way.  Hillary and Trump... and don't forget Martin O'Malley!Listen here:Download: mp3  |  Subscribe: Feed

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, a block of granite, Martin O'Malley,and Jim Webb's neck frill engaged in debate in Las Vegas last week and we'll run down the winners and losers, plus the bell tolls for thee, Jeb and Rand, and more from Springfield's great City Council saga.

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, a block of granite, Martin O'Malley,and Jim Webb's neck frill engaged in debate in Las Vegas last week and we'll run down the winners and losers, plus the bell tolls for thee, Jeb and Rand, and more from Springfield's great City Council saga.

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Jay, Rob, and Micah sit down and recap all the happenings in the first Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chaffee, and Jim Webb

This week, the five leading Democratic candidates for president — Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb — will meet on stage for a debate in Las Vegas.It will be the first of only six scheduled Democratic debates, which is a dramatic decline from primaries past. In 2004, for instance, there were 15 Democratic debates. In 2008, there were 26 debates. So what’s the difference this time? Why only 6 debates? Because of something called the exclusivity rule — conjured and enforced by the leadership of the Democratic National Committee. In this episode, we explore:the blowback to the DNC’s decision to cut off debate;the shifting position of Bernie’s campaign staff on the importance of more debates;how the debates might cast Bernie in an unflattering light, and how he might respond; andthe movement to #AllowDebate. Show notesBen Doernberg & AllowDebate.comThe official website of the Democratic National CommitteeDebbie Wasserman Schultz (DWS) on TwitterDWS gets heckled in New Hampshire Jake Tapper interviews DWS on CNNMartin O’Malley fumes about the debate schedule at the DNC’s Summer Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (August 28, 2015)The Democratic debate scheduleAlan Schroeder, professor of journalism at Northeastern UniversityRep. Tulsi Gabbard, a vice chairwoman at the DNC, is disinvited by the DNC from the debate in Las Vegas. Jonathan Mann makes a musical appeal to DWS — and to you! (You gotta see the video.) Sound beds: Keep Dancing; Massive; and Orange Juicier, by Podington Bear

What Just Happened? is a podcast about recent history. Today we discuss Black Lives Matter. #blacklivesmatter is more than a hashtag. It's a nuts and bolts organization run by three female activists, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. The group went viral following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri. They've disrupted campaign events of candidates like Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, and Hillary Clinton. How they got started and what they stand for may surprise you. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatjustpodcast Twitter: @whatjustpodcast Email: whatjustpodcast@gmail.com

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015, 10:09PM Chris Ramirez & D. Pauline Williams http://comicpauline.com http://youtu.be/fEIN9PmbTjg 0:04:00 Foo Fighters Concert Date Confusion 0:10:00 When Men Forget to Let Women Talk 0:14:00 Modern Comedy Success via Clicks, Views & Followers 0:22:00 Presidential Primaries & Debates 0:43:00 Pauline’s Presidential Election Conspiracies 1:03:00 Overqualified for Job & Resume Lies 1:13:00 Top Five GOP Candidates & F Marry Kill 1:16:00 Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Neutrality & Google Toilet 1:19:00 Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley & Hillary Clinton 1:23:00 Friday "Bye Felicia” & Boyz N The Hood 1:30:00 Chris’ Mom’s Visit & Clive Kennedy’s Concert 1:35:00 Pauline Film Watching: Melissa McCarthy, Reese Witherspoon & Sofía Vergara 1:45:00 Mother-in-Law Bridezilla & Moms Dressing Boys as Girls 1:47:00 David Niven in Prudence and the Pill 1:50:00 Who’s More Adolescent: Men or Women? 1:53:00 Baby Boomers vs Gen Xers vs Millennials

Concord Monitor political enthusiasts Clay Wirestone, Casey McDermott and Jonathan Van Fleet take on the left side of the political spectrum this week, with a podcast focused on the Democrats. For more political news, visit politics.concordmonitor.com.

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On the heels of our conversation with Slate’s Leon Neyfakh about his book The Next Next Level, The Gist talks with the book’s subject, the rap artist Juiceboxxx. Today Juice tells his own story, and explains what it’s like to have your life story told in a book.  Here’s our Spotify starter kit for becoming a Juiceboxxx fan. For the Spiel, Mike’s writes a speech for Martin O'Malley. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The MOMocrats took time off last week to attend Netroots Nation in Phoenix, Arizona - where they met and learned from progressive activists from around the country. Karoli, Cynematic and Donna Schwartz Mills report back on the newsworthy demonstration by #BlackLivesMatter and #SpeakHerName, which disrupted the planned Town Hall with Democratic candidates Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders... as well as Elizabeth Warren's keynote, women's leadership issues, the latest attack on Planned Parenthood, education panels and more. MOMocrats MOMochat is an EngenderMediaGroup production.

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Live from The American Comedy Company in San Diego, Greg mentions Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey and Martin O'Malley. 

On my program today, I will be joined by my friend and South Carolina lawyer, Lauren Martel.  Lauren is also the chief legal contributor to "America Informed."  She is also a political activist who takes her citizsenship seriously! We will discuss the impact of the failures of the administration to enforce our immigration laws is having on national security, the economy and America's middle class.  Immigration is not a "Liberal" or "Conservative" issue but is an American issue.  Immigration is not about "Left" or "Right" but about right or wrong! We will discuss my recent articles for Californians for Populstion Stabilization (CAPS) - there website is CAPSWEB.ORG.  We will take a hard look at the position that some of the announced candidates for the presidency have taken on immigration including Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley- all of whom have been the focus of my articles for Progressives For Immigration Reform. My program's purpose is to cover the issues- especially immigration and its impact on so many of the challenges we face, in a way that the mainstream media won't.  Please tell your friends and neighbors about my show! Democracy is not a spectator sport!  

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In this episode of the #AUAPodcast Ricky & Cherelle cover LA’s minimum wage increase, Bernie Sanders’ proposed policy changes, the TPP & more! Rashanii (@rashanii) of the Single Simulcast (@SingleSimulcast) talks about Josh Duggar in his #AngryBlackGuy segment “That Duggar Boy” William J Jackson  of Father Teresa’s Wine Cellar & Terri Shepler of the National Association Against Police Violence (NAAPB) join Ricky & Cherelle for a police brutality roundtable as well.AUA Podcast Ep 23 Show NotesThe More You Know 2K15: (Ricky & Cherelle)City of LA Raises Minimum Wagehttp://www.attn.com/stories/1724/los-angeles-raises-minimum-wageBernie Sanders comes out swinging with policy changes.Bernie Sanders' College Tuition Proposal is a Nightmare for Student Loan Companieshttp://www.attn.com/stories/1704/bernie-sanders-introduces-college-affordability-bill  Bernie Sanders Takes It to Wall Street With Financial Transactions Taxhttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30964-bernie-sanders-takes-it-to-wall-street-with-financial-transactions-taxBernie Sanders Wants to Tax the Rich at 90%. Here's Why That's Not So Crazyhttp://mic.com/articles/119630/bernie-sanders-wants-to-tax-the-rich-at-90-here-s-why-that-s-not-so-crazyThe 10 biggest lies you’ve been told about the Trans-Pacific Partnershiphttp://www.salon.com/2015/05/12/the_10_biggest_lies_youve_been_told_about_the_trans_pacific_partnership/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflowNebraska legislature votes to repeal death penaltyhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/20/1386278/-Nebraska-legislature-votes-to-repeal-death-penaltyOne State is Trying to Prevent Walmart from Double Dipping in Your Wallethttp://www.attn.com/stories/1711/walmart-tax-connecticut-poverty-wages?utm_source=usuncut&utm_medium=fbpost&utm_campaign=syndication2016 Presidential Election CandidatesGOP:Dr. Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, George Pataki, Marco Rubio. Possibles still include: Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Donald Trump & Scott Walker.Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders. Possibles still include: Joe Biden, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb & Lincoln Chafee. NOT ELIZABETH WARREN!!!http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/2016-election/384828/Rashanii aka Angry Black Guy - “That Dugger Boy”Don’t Kill My Vibe/ Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator” MashupPolice Brutality Panel (Ricky, Cherelle, Terri, Ashley & William)Statistics on Police Brutalityhttp://mappingpoliceviolence.org/http://killedbypolice.net/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/seven-reasons-police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/#SayHerName/ Lack of Coverage of Police Violence Against Black Women & LBGTQ Communityhttp://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/20/say_her_name_families_seek_justicehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/aja-monet-say-her-name_n_7345358.htmlhttp://www.americansunitedagain.org/blog/2015/4/28/blacklivesmatter-yesniggaallblacklives-black-men-their-obsession-with-mimicking-oppressionhttps://liberatedsouls.wordpress.com/ferguson-reflections-2/ferguson-reflections/    Chicago Just Became the First US City to Pay Reparations to Victims of Police Torturehttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30919-chicago-just-became-the-first-us-city-to-pay-reparations-to-victims-of-police-torturehttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/homan-square-detainee-police-abuse?CMP=fb_guCops Keep Firing by Nas#BaltimoreUprisinghttp://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/baltimore-thousands-suspects-arrive-too-injured-go-jail-records-showhttp://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/11/baltimore-mayors-curfew-authority-challenged-in-court-case/http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/21/us/baltimore-freddie-gray-death-officers-indicted/Potential ReformsDemitarization: http://www.attn.com/stories/1707/obama-makes-announcement-militarized-policingBody CamsClearer Legislation that Allows Gives DOJ More PowerDismantling Police DepartmentsRetrainingEnding OverpolicingHaile Selassie by Lupe FiascoFind more about the NAAPB at:http://naapb.org/http://www.facebook.com/naapbFind William & Father Teresa’s Wine Cellar at:http://twitter.com/williamjjackhttp://twitter.com/TheFatherTeresa   http://www.facebook.com/FatherTeresasWineCellarhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Dissonance-A-Critical-Analysis-Of-Justice/106500696180249Movement Updates           #AUAPodcast is now available on the following platforms                    TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/AUA-Podcast-p653052/                      Player.fm - https://player.fm/series/americans-united-again-podcast                             as well as iTunes, Stitcher, auamovement.org, Politibro,        The #AUAHope Podcast episode  is now available!!!                    Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/americans-united-again/aua-hope-podcast/e/aua-hope-podcast-episode-6-38256824?autoplay=truePodbean: http://auahope.podbean.comItunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aua-hope-podcast/id929259137The Americans United Again Android app is now available on the Google Play Store & theAmazon App Store. Coming soon to iOS. Get it now! Outro - It’s On Again by Kendrick Lamar & Alicia KeysProduced by Ricky Hinds & Cherelle KayEdited by Ricky Hinds

HILLARY - YOU'RE UNBEATABLE!   That's What You Are!!   You'll Beat The Pants Of Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Martin O'Malley      

Jackie and Dunlap on the Super Bowl, Ricky Skaggs videos, and the 2016 Presidential candidates. All of 'em! Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Little Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, and Dr. Ben Carson. Holy God, that's a depressing list of things. Sponsored by Lessons 'Round The Square (Dilly Mulerider and Wesley Press) and The Glory Shelf ("Back 3 Heaven" by Little Cissy Rinseguard as told to Lydia Rinseguard).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Lauded as a progressive leader by the activist base of the Democratic Party, outgoing Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is increasingly mentioned as a potential presidential candidate. Among other accomplishments O'Malley helped lead the push for his state’s “Dream Act” that gave undocumented college students in-state tuition, and led Maryland to be one of the first states to recognize same sex marriages. Are O'Malley's progressive politics a roadmap for the Democratic Party in a post-Obama world? Gov. O’Malley explored the state of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement as the 2016 presidential cycle begins, and his accomplishments as a two-term governor during his event with the Institute of Politics.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Lauded as a progressive leader by the activist base of the Democratic Party, outgoing Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is increasingly mentioned as a potential presidential candidate. Among other accomplishments O'Malley helped lead the push for his state’s “Dream Act” that gave undocumented college students in-state tuition, and led Maryland to be one of the first states to recognize same sex marriages. Are O'Malley's progressive politics a roadmap for the Democratic Party in a post-Obama world? Gov. O’Malley explored the state of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement as the 2016 presidential cycle begins, and his accomplishments as a two-term governor during his event with the Institute of Politics.