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</span>California will use more than $200 million from utility ratepayers to subsidize pv solar arrays on homes and businesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Brian Paradise for the news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/09/jerry-brown-to-sign-renewable-1.html#storylink=scinlineshare"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/09/jerry-brown-to-sign-renewable-1.html#storylink=scinlineshare</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Joe Nocera of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">NY Times</i> explains why the Solyndra failure in itself is not a scandal (though who knows what corruption may lurk).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The government loan guarantee program is meant to assume the higher risk for those projects which fail to attract private funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Solyndra’s cigs technology fell to the declining price of silicon pv.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The failure has, however, become the occasion for a real attack on the President, and an attack on support for renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/opinion/the-phony-solyndra-scandal.html?_r=2&hp"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/opinion/the-phony-solyndra-scandal.html?_r=2&hp</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“The Solyndra investment represents less than 2% of nearly $40 billion in loan guarantees for about three dozen innovative projects.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Solar employment has doubled to nearly 100,000 since 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/the-solyndra-panic.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/the-solyndra-panic.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y</font></a></p>
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</span>Stirling Energy Systems has filed for bankruptcy, another victim of cheap silicon technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/09/solar-shakeout-continues-stirling-energy-systems-files-for-chapter-7-bankruptcy?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September30-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/09/solar-shakeout-continues-stirling-energy-systems-files-for-chapter-7-bankruptcy?cmpid=WNL-Friday-September30-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>Last year the demand for photovoltaics in the US grew almost 70%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Also covered in this DOE notice:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>500,000 low-income homes have bee retrofitted for energy efficiency.
</font><a href="http://energy.gov/articles/doe-highlights-clean-energy-jobs-announces-major-new-energy-efficiency-milestone"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://energy.gov/articles/doe-highlights-clean-energy-jobs-announces-major-new-energy-efficiency-milestone</font></a></p>
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</span>Climate change was causing 140,000 excess deaths by 2004, according to the WHO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A new study estimates the impact on death rates in the next 60 years in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110928/Scientists-warn-about-climate-induced-increase-in-death-rates-over-the-next-60-years.aspx"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110928/Scientists-warn-about-climate-induced-increase-in-death-rates-over-the-next-60-years.aspx</font></a></p>
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</span>A veteran AP environmental reporter reflects on the course of climate change denial in the US since a prophetic
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> article in 1975 accurately warned of the problems ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He argues that while industry propaganda used to drive denial, it is now mostly fueled by anger at any sort of government.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110924/ap_on_sc/us_climate_the_disconnect"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110924/ap_on_sc/us_climate_the_disconnect</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>117 Canadians have been arrested in acts of civil disobedience to protest the current and promised destruction by the production of tar sands oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105265"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105265</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Over 1,000 have been arrested in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The US media, as in this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">NY Times</i> story, depict the protests in terms of the threat of pollution from spills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The greatest danger is runaway warming, as mentioned in the Canadian story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/partisans-rev-up-for-keystone-xl-hearings/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/partisans-rev-up-for-keystone-xl-hearings/</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Jim Hansen, arrested in Washington recently in an act of civil disobedience over the tar sands issue, sums up the situation, suggests “climate dice” as a term to convey what is happening to our climate, muses on the activities of a wounded female Monarch
butterfly, and suggests reasons for optimism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110928_Butterfly.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110928_Butterfly.pdf</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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