Five Reasons Not to Be Depressed About Climate Change

*Chile Scraps Dam Project in 'Greatest Triumph of the Nation's Environmental Movement'

Via Common Dreams

*Worldwide solar power capacity is 53X higher than 9 years ago! Wind power 6.6X higher!

Via TreeHugger

*Can Green Gas Solve Renewable Energy's Intermittency Challenge?

Via The Enery Collective

*Illinois becomes first state to ban lake-fouling microbeads

Via Grist

*German state announced that it will be 100% powered by renewable energy

Via Inhabitat

Photo above depicts campaigners at one of the rivers that would have been affected by the HidroAysen project. Middle banner reads: Patagonia without dams. (Massimo Lupo/cc/flickr)

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