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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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A solar plant in San Luis Obispo County came online this week, and is now selling power to PG&E.
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A new, slightly resource-hungry web tool allows Los Angeles County property owners to get a good idea how much benefit rooftop solar power might provide them.
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Concentrating solar companies are having trouble, but today BrightSource seems to buck the general trend.
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Winners have been announced in Environment California's Solar Los Angeles video contest, and given how good the top three are we're really glad we didn't have to pick the winner.
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The nation's largest nuke company says the wind industry is being propped up unsustainably by $12 billion in subsidies -- though it's getting federal insurance break that could cost taxpayers ten times that amount.
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A new web tool helps you find out whether micro wind turbines might be right for your home or business.
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The Bureau of Land Management is accepting comments on a proposal to build a solar facility on public lands straddling Interstate 15 just west of Baker and the Mojave National Preserve.
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I could only stand there, on the white line in the middle of the two-lane desert road, and hope the oncoming cars saw me in my dark clothing in time to slow and swerve around us.
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New billboards around Los Angeles laud the mayor for working to reduce the city's carbon footprint, and urge him to do more.
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Can California power itself from its 840 miles of ocean front?
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One of California's largest utilities and a globally respected charity have teamed up to bring less-affluent Californians into the Solar Age, and the utility says it's ready for more.
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The EPA wants your feedback on guidelines for promoting landfill solar projects.
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