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</span>Oak Park, IL, has just struck a two-year deal to buy their electricity through Renewable Energy Certificates and save several million dollars in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks for Jack Bizot for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/10-18-2011/Oak_Park_seals_green_deal_on_electric"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/10-18-2011/Oak_Park_seals_green_deal_on_electric</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>In spite of a shorter melting season, the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet was near record levels this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This report sketches the feedback mechanisms which drive the melting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://greenland2011.cryocity.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://greenland2011.cryocity.org/</font></a></p>
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</span>Howard Denson sends this story of Germany’s ambitious offshore wind plans, and of the duties of the people who tend the turbines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,792918,00.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,792918,00.html</font></a></p>
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</span>Robert Glennon of Arizona State suggests water reuse, conservation, and higher water costs as ways to handle a water supply diminished by climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Cisterns might help, too.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-climate-water-idUSTRE79Q07N20111027"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-climate-water-idUSTRE79Q07N20111027</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In Pakistan covered ponds are being used to supplement wells and cisterns as water supplies diminish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/pakistan-tackles-water-crisis-with-rainwater-harvesting"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/pakistan-tackles-water-crisis-with-rainwater-harvesting</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the past century water use has been rising twice as fast as population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-population-water-idUSTRE79O3WO20111025?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-population-water-idUSTRE79O3WO20111025?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a></p>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Guardian</i> has provided a map of where population will be added by country in 2100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Africa immediately stands out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/26/un-world-population-growth"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/26/un-world-population-growth</font></a></p>
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</span>The Climate Change Vulnerability Index provides a climate risk map and a list of particularly threatened cities.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/world/europe/cities-climate-threat-report/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/world/europe/cities-climate-threat-report/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Megacities were most at risk, with Dhaka, Bangladesh, most endangered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Miami was among the high risk cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Megacities-top-climate-change-risk-20111026"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Megacities-top-climate-change-risk-20111026</font></a></p>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Guardian</i> supplies the top ten most efficient autos, some not available until next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/oct/26/top-10-green-cars-in-pictures#/?picture=380947193&index=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/oct/26/top-10-green-cars-in-pictures#/?picture=380947193&index=0</font></a></p>
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</span>The point at which the utility-scale production of solar power falls to $1 per watt used to be projected for the beginning of 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Optical Cavity Furnace, which reduces the cost of producing solar cells by 75%, could bring it closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://scienceprogress.org/2011/10/new-solar-technology-you-never-heard-of/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://scienceprogress.org/2011/10/new-solar-technology-you-never-heard-of/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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