The Rehfeld Report

We are running out of fresh water. Indeed, some places have already run out and it will only get worse. Large cities have had to impose increasingly tough restrictions on water use. Small towns are seeing their population shrink to virtually nothing. There is a term for when a community runs out of water. It's called Day Zero. Tune in to see where this is happening and how soon Day Zero will become a fact of life throughout the [email protected]

No subject is too insignificant to rank ahead of climate change in the minds of what's important to Americans. Well, at least ten do, including immigrations, gun rights, the national debt and gas prices. Yet, nothing will matter if the earth melts, burns up, sinks beneath the waves or all of the above. We need to make the environment number one. Tune in to see why having our eyes focused on so much is the wrong way to [email protected]

Healthy activities - walking, eating vegetables, drinking water - doesn't sell, not the way wellness - supplements, yoga, pilates, vitamins, testosterone therapy and retreats - does. That's why the wellness trend is sweeping the nation. It's good business. It is also a waste of money for consumers. Hear why by tuning in. [email protected]

Hurricanes! Wildfires! Flooding! That's what we generally think of when we think about climate change, if we think about it at all. But if the end comes, it could be something a lot simpler and quieter, though no less horrific. Drought. We are running out of water and unless we do something about it, there are going to be a lot of very thirsty people. Tune in to hear what is happening and what we can do about it. [email protected]

Gas prices are up and heading higher. Food prices too. Almost everything is, so do what you can to get by financially, by actually improving your life. Switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles. Ride a train or a bike. Walk! Choose heat pumps over furnaces; chicken, turkey and vegetables over steaks and chops. It is all better for you, your wallet and the planet. Listen in and hear [email protected]

We've seen terrible destruction our aging electric grid can cause from the wildfires they've started. There has been much talk about doing something about it and that's good, but we also have a staggering increase in demand for electricity that is coming and if we don't plan for it,  the worst is yet to come. In short, homes will no longer use fossil fuel, but will become completely electric. Heat pumps will heat our homes and water. Induction ovens will be used to cook our food and EV chargers will charge our electric cars. So, we not only need a much better grid, we need the help of solar power to produce electricity at home to supplement the grid. Tune in, to hear the whole story. [email protected]

With gas and oil prices and electricity demand soaring, solar and wind power is looking promising. There are not a lot of companies that provide and the few that do, are showing some good movement after some rough times. Some of the more promising are NextEra, First Solar,  Brookfield Renewable Partners and Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure. There's more. Tune and find [email protected]

Trump has canceled a lot of wind projects, especially those located off the coasts of blue states, because he can. It has really hurt our efforts to kick the fossil fuel habit. Ironically, quite a few solidly red states are big on wind. They have the land and they have the wind. Might some Democrats get elected in those states, hopefully to promote wind power in blue states or wherever we can. We can dream and you can listen to hear the full story on the state of wind power in the U.S. [email protected]

Droughts are becoming increasingly common as the globe warms up. We often have less water than we would like for drinking, agriculture and producing power. Some places have less than others, but we all to stand to lose. Listen to hear what the problems are and what we can do about it. [email protected]

Wildfires are burning up the country and the risk keeps getting greater. Why? As global warming increases, so too do drought conditions, making forests dry like kindling ready for something to ignite. More of the means to send the forest up in smoke too. Rising temperatures increase the risk for lightning. Rising winds increase the likelihood that an aging electric grid will break down somewhere and ignite a fire. Tune in to get the whole [email protected]

For two plus million years, we have been eating beef and now it has to stop. I have. You could not have known a more committed meat eater than me. I loved it, but I gave it up because it's killing us. Raising cattle requires too many resources and involves too much waste, putting a terrible strain on the environment. Most of it is also bad for our health and we would be far better off eating a lot more vegetables. Tune for one former meat eater's version of giving up beef and liking it. [email protected]

The digital world has become all consuming for our children and it doesn't appear to being doing them any good. Their school days, for over a decade now, are as much taken up with screen time as it is at home and, as a result, they are not learning as much as they had before they were blinded by iPad light. We look at the numbers on how poorly they are performing, why it is so and make modest suggestions on what could be done better, using the example of the few school systems that have not drunk the digital Kool-Aid. Tune in.  [email protected]

while the red states are being destroyed by global warming more than blue states, they are doing much less to do anything to try and stop it. They are simply so very much against solar power and energy efficiency and show little sign of changing.  Tune in to hear the story. [email protected]

One of George Carlin's best routines was on euphemisms. It would be hard to top, but the use of euphemisms have only gotten even more extreme in the 18 years since his death as a way of putting lipstick on a pig or hide it completely. For example, U.S. and Russian bombs can kill many people and still not call it war. Have a listen. [email protected]

Call global warming a hoax as President Trump likes to say, but the bottom line is that his voters are more likely to pay more and more, over and over again than voters in blue states. It has nothing to do with politics though, just geography. Trump voters are where natural disasters have always happened. Big trouble now though, there are more and more disastrous hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, flooding and wildfires than ever before. Turn in to hear what's happening where, how and why.  [email protected]

You may not like Elon Musk, his politics and the way he treats his employees, but that's isn't the best reason to not buy his cars or to sell a Tesla you already own. The reason to get away and stay from Tesla is that there are better electric vehicle choices. In fact, there has never been a better time to switch from gas to electric. Listen in as I talk about some of the best of electric cars from Hyundai, Chevrolet, Lexus and Toyota. [email protected]

The more you spend on a home, car and other big ticket items the more you are likely to waste in money and energy., with little in return. Take cars. Expensive cars use more gas than compacts. Fancy refrigerators with ice-making machines in the door, same thing. Also, those luxurious gas ovens. McMansions are more likely to waste energy because they are more likely to have chimneys, which waste energy all year long. The idea is to buy small electric vehicles, top freezer refrigerators without ice makers, induction ovens and homes without chimneys. Tune [email protected]