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Along with Jackson Browne, Utah Phillips and a number of other recording artists and actors, Raitt has been jumping on the stage to support solar energy and oppose nuclear power. She's recently been touring the East Coast doing benefits for the cause. Many of the artists set up energy information literature tables, sell solar energy T-shirts, and generally encourage people to work against nuciear power at their performances...
...sunrise moved westward, similar fetes were staged by thousands of celebrants across the country. The festivities were organized by Washington-based Solar Action, Inc., a group of activists dedicated to "showing the world that the best energy source on earth may not be on earth at all but 93 million miles above it." At last week's rallies, they castigated the Carter Administration for not spending more money on solar energy. The sun now seems an unlikely answer to all the nation's energy problems, at least in the immediate future. But the President's Council...
...celebration was organized by Robert Redford's wife Lola, about 500 people at the United Nations Plaza droned an appropriate mantra at dawn: "Sun-nun-nun-nua ..." In Greenwich Village, eighth-grade students from St. Luke's School cooked chocolate-chip cookies and hot dogs on solar grills; at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Omega Liturgical Dance Company re-enacted a Renaissance ceremony in which a ball symbolizing the sun is passed between priests and dancers...
Some parts of the country had rain, even snow, but the Sun Day celebration still went on. At U.C.L.A., plans to cook popcorn on a solar-powered device were rained out, but 600 Sun Day sundaes-vanilla ice cream, orange slices, strawberries, raisins and nuts-were given away. Los Angeles' Museum of Science and Industry exhibited three sun-powered cars and beanies with solar-powered propellers. By the time the sun had set over the Pacific at 8:23 p.m., Sun Day had boosters coast to coast. Said Maggie Hardy, a coordinator in Los Angeles whose spirits stayed high...
...needed, and plants are being cancelled, because of costly delays in the licensing process. It said that nuclear plants could operate more efficiently (they presently run at about 60 per cent of their capacity) were it not for unreasonable environmental restrictions. It ended by saying that we all want solar power, but that it relies on a technology that's far in the future...