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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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Within ten years, power from solar panels on your roof will be as inexpensive as power from local electric companies across the country. And for southern Californians, that day will be here quite a bit sooner.
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A leading California solar advocacy group is calling utility allegations that rooftop solar panel owners cost other ratepayers money "largely horsemalarkey."
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A preview of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is out, and like everything about the California Desert, its scale is huge.
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California utilities raise the alarm about costs to ratepayers of rooftop solar... but let's not mention the billions in transmission lines those solar installations might save us.
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Is it an emergency battery backup, or a "personal massager"? Wei Long's "Juice Can" is a creative approach to a slightly pedestrian need.
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A leading wind power group wants a federal tax credit extended for another six years
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All life on earth, every thing that lives and has ever lived, every bird and beetle and box elder tree shares a common ancestor. We are each and every one of us related, each and every one of us the front of an impossibly ancient flood of genes rising ...
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Space-X founder Elon Musk's SolarCity changes course on this week's IPO, cuts its stock price almost in half.
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Want to reduce your energy use, but can't afford the upgrades? A bill just introduced in the State Senate may offer you a solution.
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Inyo County's Board of Supervisors is having second thoughts about a large solar project on the Nevada state line.
Smokey the Bear shows up at the dedication of the U.S. Forest Service's new solar array in San Dimas, CA. | Photo: Courtesy Nathan Judy, Forest Service
Solar Power is SoCal's future -- but we need need new policies to help it come online
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If solar hot water heating works above the Arctic Circle, why isn't it more popular here in the land of sunshine?
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