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1. “General Motors believes the future is all electric.” GM plans to introduce twenty new electric vehicles in the next five years.

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/general-motors-electric-cars-plan-gm/">https://www.wired.com/story/general-motors-electric-cars-plan-gm/</a></p>

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<p>2. Danish Oil and Natural Gas, DONG, has divested from fossil fuels and is changing its name to Ørsted (after the Danish physicist who discovered that electric currents generate magnetic fields). 

<a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/03/dong-energy-changes-name-orsted-wake-fossil-fuel-divestment/">

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/03/dong-energy-changes-name-orsted-wake-fossil-fuel-divestment/</a> (If your font does not have the slashed Danish O, the name is often written ‘Oersted’ in English.)

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Ørsted, the world’s largest producer of offshore wind power, believes that large European companies are increasingly interested in purchasing renewable power directly from its producers.

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dong-energy-renewables/dong-energy-sees-european-renewable-power-purchase-market-taking-off-idUSKCN1C726S">

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dong-energy-renewables/dong-energy-sees-european-renewable-power-purchase-market-taking-off-idUSKCN1C726S</a> Perhaps utilities will become more purely power managers.</p>

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3. The International Energy Agency forecasts that renewables will constitute a third of the world’s energy production in five years.

<a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/iea-report-renewables-third-global-generation#gs.Zf1TOEU">

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/iea-report-renewables-third-global-generation#gs.Zf1TOEU</a>

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But since 2002 the IEA’s track record in forecasting renewables’ growth has been laughably conservative.

<a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/one-chart-shows-how-solar-energy-growth-is-skyrocketing-compared-to-predictions?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1">

https://www.sciencealert.com/one-chart-shows-how-solar-energy-growth-is-skyrocketing-compared-to-predictions?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1</a></p>

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4. On the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, institutions of the Catholic Church are to make record divestments of fossil fuels.

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/03/catholic-church-to-make-record-divestment-from-fossil-fuels">

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/03/catholic-church-to-make-record-divestment-from-fossil-fuels</a></p>

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5. George Monbiot sees raising livestock for food as the ecological equivalent of mining coal and the moral equivalent of slavery.

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals">

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals</a></p>

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6. A compostable plastic made from shrimp shells and wood could replace the plastics now pervading our environment.

<a href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/09/biodegradable-plastic-from-shrimp-shells/">

http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/09/biodegradable-plastic-from-shrimp-shells/</a> <br>

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