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</span>LED lighting can be tuned to provide the wave lengths plants find especially delicious, tripling the efficiency of greenhouses and contributing to the food supply while cutting power usage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/leds-can-triple-the-efficiency-of-greenhouse-lighting?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/leds-can-triple-the-efficiency-of-greenhouse-lighting?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily</font></a>
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</span>When drought becomes persistent the usual temporary supports for the afflicted area will no longer work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/drought-no-amount-of-assistance-can-fix-a-land-turned-permanently-to-dust"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/drought-no-amount-of-assistance-can-fix-a-land-turned-permanently-to-dust</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>California’s drought continues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/25/282624536/california-s-drought-a-shocking-photo-and-other-updates?ft=1&f=1025"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/25/282624536/california-s-drought-a-shocking-photo-and-other-updates?ft=1&f=1025</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Brazil, too, is stressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Growing heat adds to the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0225-brazil-epic-drought.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0225-brazil-epic-drought.html</font></a><u><font color="#0000ff"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">One early impact of persistent drought is to increase the likelihood and ferocity of forest fires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The linked story focusses on Austin, Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/austin-a-poster-child-for-urban-wildfire-threat-17058"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/austin-a-poster-child-for-urban-wildfire-threat-17058</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Water management also becomes more complicated, as in Northern California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059995262"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059995262</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A small island bay in the Pacific is naturally acidic, yet its coral reef thrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Perhaps it was able to adapt because the change was more gradual than it is now in the ocean generally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0225-dimitrova-corals-of-rock-island-bay.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0225-dimitrova-corals-of-rock-island-bay.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A German study found that five geoengineering suggestions would all be ineffective and have potentially disastrous side effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/geoengineering-side-effects-potentially-disastrous-scientists"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/geoengineering-side-effects-potentially-disastrous-scientists</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Stanford’s Mark Jacobsen has calculated how each state could be powered renewably by 2050 (excluding such power sources as nuclear and ethanol, and presuming no new technology).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Levelized costs are significantly below fossil fuels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/02/powering-the-u-s-with-renewables-a-state-by-state-roadmap?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February26-2014"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/02/powering-the-u-s-with-renewables-a-state-by-state-roadmap?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February26-2014</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Devices now in development to produce power from waves and tides include Scottish sea snakes, carpets with over 90% power conversion rates, buoys, oysters, and turbines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/02/140220-five-striking-wave-and-tidal-energy-concepts/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/02/140220-five-striking-wave-and-tidal-energy-concepts/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><u><font color="#0000ff">
</font></u></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Norway’s Langlee Wave Power is working on projects in several regions.
</font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/02/officials-sign-agreement-for-canary-islands-wave-power-development?cmpid=WNL-Friday-February28-2014"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/02/officials-sign-agreement-for-canary-islands-wave-power-development?cmpid=WNL-Friday-February28-2014</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>British Columbia’s budget-neutral carbon tax has been effective at both reducing emissions and maintaining the economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/27/3198521/vancouver-carbon-price/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/27/3198521/vancouver-carbon-price/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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