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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Seattle’s Bullitt Center produces its own energy, processes its own restroom waste, and collects its own potable water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It gets to sell the negawatts from its high efficiency features to the local utility, and provides as much value in the way of environmental services to Seattle as it took to build it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://grist.org/business-technology/how-one-building-is-changing-the-world/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Oct%252015&utm_campaign=daily"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/business-technology/how-one-building-is-changing-the-world/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Oct%252015&utm_campaign=daily</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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</span>In the last couple of years significant methane seeps have been found from surprising sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Does methane release pose a significant present danger?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Peter Sinclair has put together an interim collection of materials on the topic, including a brief interview with Carolyn Ruppel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The material supplies the information necessary to listen in on the methane conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/10/15/calling-the-methane-bomb-squad/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/10/15/calling-the-methane-bomb-squad/</font></span></a><u><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">Richard Alley meditates the likelihood and unlikelihood of a giant methane burp<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The piece includes an excerpt from an NAS study of Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change in which Alley participated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/10/17/methane-bomb-squad-part-4-dr-richard-alley-and-the-national-academy/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/10/17/methane-bomb-squad-part-4-dr-richard-alley-and-the-national-academy/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Lockheed says that it can produce a 100 megawatt fusion reactor which would fit in the back of a pickup truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They hope to have it available commercially in ten years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy</font></span></a><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><u><font color="#0563c1">
</font></u></span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It may well be, as Joe Romm argues, that the technology would be too late for the necessary energy transition even if Lockheed were able to meet its announced schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This late in the process of climate disruption we may have to go with the current technologies of renewable energy to reduce emissions in time to have a chance of maintaining a livable world.
</span></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/15/3580379/fusion-power-lockheed-martin-cfr/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/15/3580379/fusion-power-lockheed-martin-cfr/?elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>A Dutch team has won an award for its salt tolerant potato.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They are developing crops which can be grown on diluted sea water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Several tons of seed potatoes are on their way to Pakistan, where salt water encroachment has already taken large tracts of land out of agricultural production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/18/humble-potato-poised-to-launch-food-revolution"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/18/humble-potato-poised-to-launch-food-revolution</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Unlike the Dutch project, industrial agriculture is engaged in green-washing with such self-descriptors as “climate-smart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/17/climate-change-agriculture-bad-isnt-good"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/17/climate-change-agriculture-bad-isnt-good</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">Permaculture is a good place to start looking through the developments in agriculture which promise to provide food in a heated world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Kristin Ohlson’s <u>The Soil will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet</u> (Rodale Press, 2014) is a non-technical and personal investigation of the rewards and promise of ecologically responsible agriculture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Soil-Will-Save-Us-Scientists-ebook/dp/B00DVF13AW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413735793&sr=8-1&keywords=the+soil+will+save+us"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://smile.amazon.com/Soil-Will-Save-Us-Scientists-ebook/dp/B00DVF13AW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413735793&sr=8-1&keywords=the+soil+will+save+us</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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