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KCET's award-winning environment news project Redefine ran from July 2012 through February 2017. For ongoing environmental coverage please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine's archives below for historical material.

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BrightSource Energy, which had called its planned 500-megawatt Rio Mesa solar project a crucial step in developing reliable solar power generation, now says it's putting that project on hold.
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The LADWP's Board unanimously approved a plan Friday to buy 100 megawatts of solar power from property owners throughout the city of Los Angeles.
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A Portland-based wind company is walking away from a controversial project near Joshua Tree National Park, saying that there isn't enough wind to justify building turbines.
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The California Energy Commission is plowing $1.8 million into UCSD's microgrid to help the University develop it as a model for the rest of the state.
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California's groundbreaking program to encourage rooftop solar power installation has subsidized more than a gigawatt's worth of solar panels since 2007.
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When the Army Corps sent bulldozers crashing through Sepulveda Basin it damaged nature and the civic arena
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A report released just before New Years found that many wind turbines' effective lifespans are much shorter than expected. And now a respected British ecologist is slamming the wind industry, saying that wind power is "devastating populations of rare b...
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A solar trade reporter's weird rant about Mexican technology misses the point.
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The nation's chief wildlife protection agency is opposing a new solar project in the Ivanpah Valley just outside the California state line, saying the project as currently designed would harm the valley's beleaguered tortoise population.
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If the Mojave Desert gets some rain in the next six weeks, then we might just see one of the desert's least-understood phenomena take place, as Joshua trees work to create a new generation of themselves.
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Mosaic, an Oakland startup that funds rooftop solar projects, is now offering Californians and New Yorkers an opportunity to invest in solar projects in a Kickstarter-style crowdfunding arrangement -- except unlike Kickstarter, Mosaic aims to pay its...
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As a pilot project, they are installing four electric vehicle charging stations at five Park-and-Ride facilities starting in mid-January.
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