<html dir="ltr"><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style id="owaTempEditStyle"></style><style title="owaParaStyle"><!--P {
MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px
}
--></style>
</head>
<body ocsi="x">
<div style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #000000; DIRECTION: ltr">
<div></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A New Mexico utility has signed a 25 year power purchase agreement with First Solar for a 50 megawatt solar installation at $.0579/kilowatt-hour, cheaper than new coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/06/new-mexico-approves-miniscule-ppa-for-states-biggest-solar-plant"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/06/new-mexico-approves-miniscule-ppa-for-states-biggest-solar-plant</font></a>
<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">New solar installations made up nearly half of the new energy in the US for the first quarter of this year, and were up 33% from the same quarter last year.
</font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/06/residential-demand-spurs-us-solar-installations-in-1q13?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-June12-2013"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/06/residential-demand-spurs-us-solar-installations-in-1q13?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-June12-2013</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span><o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US and China have agreed on a plan to cut the global use of HFCs, potent greenhouse gasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/us-usa-china-environment-idINBRE9570EX20130608"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/us-usa-china-environment-idINBRE9570EX20130608</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As the Arctic warms, diseases spread north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/06/arctic-disease"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/06/arctic-disease</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Vector diseases are gaining ground among children in Pakistan thanks to climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-182680-Climate-change-may-be-making-children-sick"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-182680-Climate-change-may-be-making-children-sick</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Heat can bring higher ozone levels and with them respiratory ills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/1/article/76080/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/1/article/76080/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>American farmers are faced with adapting to a change they have been propagandized into denying (or our food supply is that much more diminished).
</font></font><a href="http://grist.org/article/tough-spot-for-farmers-adapting-to-change-you-cant-believe-in/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley%40unf.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/article/tough-spot-for-farmers-adapting-to-change-you-cant-believe-in/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley%40unf.edu</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The International Energy Agency has proposed a package of stopgap actions designed to buy time while an international climate agreement is being negotiated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Actions include developing carbon capture technology, increasing energy efficiency, controlling methane leaks, and ceasing subsidies for fossil fuels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The object is to avoid the 2° of warming threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22845425"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22845425</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><u><font color="#0000ff">
</font></u></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Emissions in 2012 set a record but did show some encouraging trends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/11/climate-change-carbon-emissions-iea-silver-lining"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/11/climate-change-carbon-emissions-iea-silver-lining</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A New York City report anticipates that by 2050 the city will have the climate of Birmingham and two feet of sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-usa-newyork-heat-idUSBRE95A01A20130611?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-usa-newyork-heat-idUSBRE95A01A20130611?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The report projects 4-8” of sea level rise by 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/nyregion/new-york-city-faces-increasing-risk-from-climate-change-new-data-show.html?_r=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/nyregion/new-york-city-faces-increasing-risk-from-climate-change-new-data-show.html?_r=0</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>New York has announced a $20 billion climate adaptation plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-lays-20-billion-plan-combat-climate-change-180254585.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-lays-20-billion-plan-combat-climate-change-180254585.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Cellana of San Diego has contracted to deliver commercial quantities of Omega 3 oil and fuel oil from their algae-based process. Production is intended to begin in two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The production facility is in Hawaii.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/07/san-diego-based-algae-biofuel-strikes-milestone-de/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/07/san-diego-based-algae-biofuel-strikes-milestone-de/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Start-up EOS plans to market a zinc-based utility scale battery sufficiently cheap and durable to replace natural gas in a hybrid arrangement with solar power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/515076/cheap-batteries-for-backup-renewable-energy/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130610"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.technologyreview.com/news/515076/cheap-batteries-for-backup-renewable-energy/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-energy&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130610</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A scientific team is funding their Dark Snow project with internet crowd sourcing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The team will study the effect of black carbon deposits on projections of Arctic melting and thus of sea level rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/12/greenland-darkening-ice-climate-science"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/12/greenland-darkening-ice-climate-science</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
</font></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>