We have some exciting news to kick off the New Year: The World Business Academy is going live on local radio! Beginning Friday, January 11, we will begin broadcasting a new weekly radio talk show called “Solutions News.” Hosted by Rinaldo, each broadcast will feature a spirited and informative discussion concerning solutions to local, national […]
San Luis Obispo
Call to Action: Tell BLM to Stop Drilling and Fracking in Central California!
The Trump Administration is on the move to expose roughly 273,000 acres of federal public lands and mineral rights, to hydraulic fracking and oil drilling in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. The watchdog organization, Los Padres ForestWatch, performed an analysis of official GIS data that pointed to the administration’s efforts and disclosed […]
Closing Diablo Canyon: Academy Files with Supreme Court
The World Business Academy asked the California Supreme Court on Monday July 23, to weigh in on its lawsuit to force Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to study the environmental and human health dangers stemming from continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach. The Academy filed a Petition for Review […]
Closing Diablo Canyon: Jerry Brown’s Journey
Closing Diablo Canyon: Jerry Brown’s Journey as an Anti-Nuclear Advocate The World Business Academy’s Director of the Safe Energy Project, Jerry Brown Phd., tells the story of his introduction into the anti-nuclear activist field after co-authoring Profiles in Power: The Antiunclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age with Rinaldo S. Brutoco. From helping […]
Nuclear Power, Cancer and Infant Mortality
By Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., Director, Safe Energy Project I first learned about “the secret legacy of the Nuclear Age” from epidemiologist Jay Gould in the winter of 1997. With Ernest Sternglass, a radiation physicist, Dr. Gould founded the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) to investigate the impact of cumulative doses of low-level radiation […]
Published… But Censored
The Difficult Truth of Diablo Canyon Sometimes we tell a truth that people don’t want to hear because it’s controversial, it doesn’t meet a certain political agenda, or it makes people uncomfortable. This is the case with the aging and dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County. We spoke an inconvenient […]
Academy Continues Effort to Close Diablo, Protect CEQA
Academy files reply brief with the Court of Appeals We are pressing forth with our lawsuit seeking an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to address the significant environmental and human health dangers that will result from continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo. We filed a Reply Brief earlier on February 16th […]
Beyond Nuclear Energy Video
Our safe energy initiative team is committed to the pursuing the decommissioning of existing nuclear power plants such as Diablo Canyon and finding feasible solutions for the permanent disposal of radioactive waste. As outlined in our video, an important part of securing a clear energy present and future is coming to terms with the events of Fukushima and how we can […]
The Fight Against Diablo Canyon Continues
We don’t give up easily, especially when it comes to the incredibly dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo. The World Business Academy has decided to appeal the ruling against our lawsuit seeking an Environmental Impact Report to address the significant environmental and human health dangers that would result from continued operation […]
Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission
Update: As of mid October, 2015, this video has received nearly 170,000 hits on the UCSB TV website. Academy President Rinaldo S. Brutoco presents “Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission,” at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Walter H. Capps Center for the study of ethics, religion and public life. Brutoco mentions […]
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant: A Major Risk to the Central Coast of California
Dr. Jerry B. Brown, Director of the World Business Academy’s Safe Energy Project explains the critical threats and ongoing harm to the residents of California’s central coast posed by the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The health study released by the Academy examines the increased rate of cancer in zip codes down wind of the […]
The Academy’s Nuclear Power Health Impact Study
Update (April 30, 2014): The San Luis Obispo Health Department has taken issue with our original findings in the report below. We have answered their criticisms point by point in an extended rebuttal: Reply to San Luis Obispo County Health Department — Today the World Business Academy officially releases a report on striking negative health trends […]
