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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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The shifting seasons bring changes to the Mojave Desert
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Failings in the global market mean solar panel factories go idle when we need their products more than ever.
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A San Bernardino County water treatment plant will power itself with the waste it's removing from the water.
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A Yale and NYU study says that if you install solar on your rooftop, your neighbor's more likely to do the same.
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The battery manufacturer responsible for Fisker electric cars catching on fire has filed for bankruptcy.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) participate in the second presidential debate. | Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
There was some mention of renewable energy in Tuesday's Presidential debate, but if you sneezed during the proceedings you may well have missed it.
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A Rialto plant that pledged to turn sewage into sludge is shut down, and its owner is circling the drain.
Photo: Courtesy the family of Earl M. Lewis
Char Miller remembers the late Trinity University teacher that pushed the campus into a brave new world with his Urban Studies program.
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A new report on the forecast for the photovoltaic manufacturing sector is about as bearish as you can get.
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Could Pennsylvania's smart meter overheating problems happen in California? Looks that way.
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A California company breaks its own world record for photovoltaic cell effiiciency.
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On a few calm days this fall, solar has actually outpaced wind in California energy production.
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