Bahram Maskanian is the founder and CEO of the Venus Project Foundation in New York City that is dedicated to the promotion of clean energy technologies to reduce the carbon footprint and replace fossil fuel based energy sources.

The Foundation has petitioned the White House with New Energy Technology strategy that would include cold fusion power generators, completely self-sustaining and available for homes. Until now these new clean technologies have not been available to the public. The foundation is seeking 100,00 signatures by May 31 to meet the goal set by the White House.

There website is www.VenusProject.org

Dr. Robert Burton, MD is a physician, journalist and author writing about the new science of brain, mind, neuroscience and the philosophy of science. He was formerly the Chief of the Division of Neurology at Mt Zion Hospital at the University of California at San Francisco and was the associate chief of the department of Neurosciences. Dr. Burton received his degrees from Yale University and the UCSF Medical School He writes frequently for the San Francisco Chronicle and Salon. His latest book is “The Skeptic’s Guide to the Brain: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves.”

Dr. Christiane Northrup is a board-certified OB/GYN physician and is regarded by many doctors, alternative physicians and women as a leading pioneer and visionary in women’s health and the biology and lifestyle associated with menopause. In 2013, Readers Digest listed her among the 100 most trusted people in America today. She is graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, undertook her residency at Tufts University New England Medical Center, and was a clinical professor of OBGYN at Maine’s Medical Center for 20 years. Dr. Northrup’s research and practice based upon the a body-mind-spirit paradigm. She has authored many best selling books including “Women’s Body, Women’s Wisdom”, “The Wisdom of Menopause”, and her most recent is the children’s book “Beautiful Girl” addressing young girls. More about Dr. Northrup’s work, articles and online courses can be found at her website DrNorthrup.com

Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and their economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley. Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience. His story is described in a memoir, “Walking Away from Empire” and his website is GuyMcpherson.com

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a board-certified family physician practicing in Flemington New Jersey, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is one of the few alternative medical physicians in the nation with a vital, personal practice online. He is also an alternative medical educator for other physicians and is a board member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a research director of the Nutritional Research Project of the National Health Association. Dr. Fuhrman is the author of several best selling health books dealing with nutrition, natural immunity, child health and others. His most recent is “The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent Diabetes”

Short News Maker : NY Bill A3525 & A/S3835 for mandatory labeling of GM engineered foods to retailers in NY State

Kathleen Furey is the Education and Media Director of GMO Free New York, a grassroots coalition allied with the National Coalition of 37 states to pass GMO labeling laws. She was a researcher for the awarding documentary Genetic Roulelte directed by Jeffrey Smith.  Kathy is currently a statewide educator for GMO labeling. Two bills are currently in the NY State legislature that would require mandoratory labeling of genetically modified foods and foods with GMO ingredients for retail sale

Dr. Saru Jayaraman is an attorney and labor and food activist who is the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a 10,000 member non-profit organization devoted to improving the economic welfare of workers in the food and restaurant industry. Her organization published the National Diner’s Guide, which rates restaurants according to how their labor force is treated. She is currently the director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Saru attended Harvard’s JF Kennedy School of Government and received her juris degree from Yale University Law School. She is the author of “Behind the Kitchen Door” which pulls away the appalling conditions of the labor force who prepare and cook the foods we eat. Her organization’s website is ROCUnited.org

Dr. Andrew Maniotis is the science and biomedical consultant for Cures Within Reach, formerly the Goldman Partnership for Cures, and serves as a consultant for the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice in LA and the National Vaccine Information Center.   Earlier he was an assistant professor of pathology and the director of melanoma and breast cancer research at the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. Over the years he has held research associate positions at the University of California at Berkeley (where he received doctorate), Harvard University and Washington University School of Medicine.

Andy has been a leading scientific in the Rethinking AIDS community. He has been consulting for the Nagel family and was a consultant for the US heavyweight boxer Tom Morrison when he had tested HIV positive and was prevented from competing… later to find that Morrison was negative.

His website is andrewmaniotis.wordpress.com, where you can several free ebooks on AIDS, Cancer and Vaccine

David Crowe is the President of the Reappraising AIDS Society and a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists. He hosts the www.ReThinkingAIDS.com website, which is science and news resource on all international research and commentary challenging the current HIV/AIDS model.  David is also the former president and treasurer for the Green Party in Alberta Canada.

WEBSITE: www.ReThinkingAIDS.com

A look at solutions to implement for restoring a sustainable nation

Ralph Nader is without a second one of the most influential Americans during the past several decades. He is directly responsible for many of our most important bills that have provided protection to consumers against the onslaughts of corporate short-term profits and the Friedmanite free market, unregulated capitalism. landmark acts for Freedom of Information, Clean Water, Clean Air, Whistleblower Protection, Wholesome Food, and others that have been enacted by Congress and implemented. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard universities, Ralph has been a presidential candidate for five elections, building his platform on consumer rights, humanitarian and civil rights efforts, environmental sanity, and democratic government. Ralph’s most recent book “The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future” that outlines a new progressive path for a sustainable future. The website is www.SeventeenSolutions.com AND TimeForARaise.com

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. He is currently the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and a research association at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. Dr. Hudson has served as an advisor to the White House, State and Defense departments at the Hudson Institute, in addition to the United Nations Institute where he became a specialist in global economics. Dr. Hudson has written several books and many important papers and articles, including “The Bubble and Beyond: Fictitious Capital, Debt Deflation and Global Crisis” His website is Michael-Hudson.com

A conversation about humanism as a philosophical moral path for living a fulfilling life and the dangers of religious literalism

Prof. Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at St. Annes College at Oxford and Birbeck Colege at the University of London. In the UK, and through much of Europe, he is a household name and appears frequently on media and major publications. He has written over 30 books on philosophy and other subjects dealing with Liberty and Terror, social justice, and the big ideas that have shaped the course of humanity and civilization. Prof. Grayling is the honorary secretary of England’s preeminent philosophical association, The Aristotelian Society. He is a past Chairman of June Fourth – a human rights organization dealing with Chinese violations, and a representative of the UN Human Rights Council for the INternaitonal Humanist and Ethical Union. He frequently appears on BBC and the World Service and has received numerous prestigious rewards for his humanitarian and literary efforts. Anthony’s most recent book is “The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism” – which presents the case against scriptural literalism, religious creationism and other beliefs and present Humanism as a viable path for living a fulfilling life.

Vandana Shiva, internationally renown environmental and social activists, regarded as a leading pioneer behind India’s ecological and ecofeminist movement. She is founder of Navdanya, an organization dedicated to the restoration of organic farming across India and the preservation of indigenous knowledge and culture.