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</span>A Lutheran church in the Black Forest region has covered its roof with solar panels and used the proceeds to put panels on school roofs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Creation Windows project had to fight the local utility and local authorities who saw the panels as historically inauthentic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Dick Bizot and his sister Ruth for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://sojo.net/magazine/2012/03/heavenly-energy#.UokL5zQEOmE.email"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://sojo.net/magazine/2012/03/heavenly-energy#.UokL5zQEOmE.email</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Carbon emissions are expected to rise to a new record high this year, 61% above 1990 levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-global-carbon-emissions-idUSBRE9AI00A20131119"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-global-carbon-emissions-idUSBRE9AI00A20131119</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An interactive map allows you to see emissions increases since 1960 by country or groups of countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/19/global-carbon-emissions-compared-over-time"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/19/global-carbon-emissions-compared-over-time</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The UN’s Christina Figueres told a group of coal industry executives that most coal should be left in the ground and the industry should transform itself “radically and dramatically for everyone’s sake.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/18/leave-coal-avoid-climate-catastrophe-un"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/18/leave-coal-avoid-climate-catastrophe-un</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>James Hansen and several other distinguished scientists have filed an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
amicus curiae</i> brief describing what would be necessary to preserve the kind of climate under which civilizations developed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>CO2 emissions must be reduced by at least 6% annually and forests must be restored on a wide scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ourchildrenstrust.org/sites/default/files/FiledScienceAmicus.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ourchildrenstrust.org/sites/default/files/FiledScienceAmicus.pdf</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Just 90 corporations (and, I would add, the governments which support them) are responsible for nearly 2/3 of greenhouse gas emissions to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Their decision makers would fit on one or two Greyhound busses, which would then include the people who decide to use their resources to prevent action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Half the emissions came in the last 25 years, over which we knew what the effects were and are to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-90-companies-2013-11"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-90-companies-2013-11</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Here’s an interactive display of the guilty 90.
</font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/20/which-fossil-fuel-companies-responsible-climate-change-interactive"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/20/which-fossil-fuel-companies-responsible-climate-change-interactive</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>132 countries walked out on the Warsaw talks after wealthy nations deferred to 2015 decision on compensation for climate damages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/20/climate-talks-walk-out-compensation-un-warsaw"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/20/climate-talks-walk-out-compensation-un-warsaw</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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