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The backstory: I help run a global warming campaign called 350.org.  In mid-summer, we decided to organize an effort to ask world leaders to put solar panels on the roofs of their residences. It was to be part of the lead-up to a gigantic Global Work Party on October 10th (10-10-10), and a way to give prime ministers and politburos something easy to do in the hope of getting the fight against global warming slowly back on track. One of those crucial leaders is, of course, Barack Obama, who stood by with his arms folded this summer while the Senate punted on climate-change legislation.  We thought this might be a good way for him to signal that he was still committed to change, even though he hadn’t managed to pass new laws.

Big Oil seized and took control of the photovoltaic research and patents. If you control the market – you control the development and the product.

In America, wind turbines echo the almost melodic taunt of a schoolyard victor — Neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh: You can’t get me. That’s because American wind turbines are the manifestation of freedom from foreign oil. The more American wind turbines, the fewer barrels of oil America must import to meet its energy needs. And American-built wind turbines help propel the nation out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression by generating good-paying American jobs.

There is plenty of blame to go around in regards to the Gulf Oil spill.

The oil spill is ravaging the water and marine life, the shoreline, the marshes and the livelihoods of everyone in the region.

Howie Klein has the goods on the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, which the House of Representatives easily passed yesterday.

At the first presidential debate Sen. John McCain remarked, “No one from Arizona is against solar.” As it turns out, Sen. McCain may be the one Arizonan who opposes solar.