Greens focus on climate change in election lead-up (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) The Greens will head into the next federal election with climate change as their main issue. [News Source]

Reports predict global warming deluge (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Netherlands, Bangladesh and several Pacific Islands could be underwater within 50 years, if a groundbreaking British report on global warming is accurate. [News Source]

Energy debate heats up on Vashon.

Voters will decide Nov. 7 whether to form King County’s first public utility district that is believed would be the first utility district in the nation formed to reduce home energy consumption and develop renewable resources.

Champlain students lighting the way. Champlain College students have joined other college students across Vermont who are helping their schools light the way for energy efficiency by replacing traditional incandescent light bulbs with compact, fluorescent, energy-saving bulbs. [News Source]

A huge wind farm and a dire warning. A $600 million wind farm generating enough electricity to power almost 190,000 homes will be built in western Victoria. [News Source]

TriMet will fuel buses with biodiesel. TriMet, Oregon's largest consumer of diesel fuel, will become the state's biggest user of biodiesel as well. [News Source]

Reduce your ‘carbon footprint’ to minimize global warming’s effects. Reducing your "carbon footprint," which is the amount of carbon dioxide your lifestyle is generating from your home-energy use and transportation habits, is a useful starting point to dealing with global warming and escalating energy prices. [News Source]

Spano forming Westchester task force on global warming. Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano is forming a countywide task force on global warming, pushing for a coordinated effort at the local level to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Global warming: litigation to soon heat up. New research analysing the grounds of potential legal liability of companies and governments for their roles in global warming warns that law suits are likely to increase and have high prospects of success in the near future. [News Source]

More droughts on the way, expert warns. Climatologist Dr. Barrie Pittock told a Victorian National Parks Association audience in Melbourne on Saturday that as global warming continued, worse droughts in Australia would follow. [News Source]

Experts: Warming a threat to wildlife. Endangered birds, fish and plants in Massachusetts are disproportionately threatened by global warming, according to a new report that identifies a massive New England wildlife refuge as a potential casualty of the shifting climate. [News Source]