Seeds for change, Dorothy and Dan Oberhausen are participating in the nation's first co-operative solar farm. They are playing a small role in an emerging and potentially significant trend in the nation's energy landscape: A move by rural co-ops into renewable-energy production. [News Source]

In tiny `Tuk,’ they man climate’s front line. Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They're building windmills. [News Source]

Hatoyama stands by bold CO2 target. Yukio Hatoyama, who will become prime minister next week, committed his incoming government Monday to pursuing a far more ambitious goal to slash greenhouse gas emissions than the one set by the outgoing administration. [News Source]

Japanese carbon cut may sweep away UN who-jumps-first obsession. Japan's announcement of a 25 per cent cut in its greenhouse gas emissions could be a game-changer at the UN showdown on climate change in Copenhagen in December, observers say. [News Source]

Rejecting tech, some opting for human power. At a time when electronic devices are powering our lives, a slow-growing movement of human-power advocates is unplugging cell phones and laptops, and turning to people as sources of alternative energy. [News Source]

Arguing from the inside. The head of one of the world's dirtiest industries is making common cause with climate-change campaigners. Lars Göran Josefsson is CEO of Vattenfall AB, Europe's fifth-largest electricity producer, and one of Europe's most influential voices on global warming. [News Source]

How opinions form on climate change. A new report indicates social circles have more to do with what people believe about climate change than the facts gathered by scientists. Policymakers need to recognize that getting people to change their behavior will take more than just science and facts, experts say. [News Source]

Inside the ‘zero carbon’ future home. One of the UK's leading housebuilders, Miller Homes, claims to have built a zero carbon house as part of the effort to combat climate change. [News Source]

GOP hits Ohio to bash climate bill. With the nation fixated on the debate on how to overhaul the health care system, the other major policy issue of the year-an effort to address climate change-has largely been overshadowed. [News Source]

Global warming would hit Utah hard. While Gov. Gary Herbert is putting together a conference on climate change to decide if humans have anything to do with it, the Nature Conservancy has issued a warning on what global warming will do to the humans in Utah if current trends do not change. [News Source]

Climate change mitigation offers growth chances: UN report. Climate change mitigation does not contradict development goals but will offer enormous opportunities for growth, says a UN report released here Tuesday, weeks ahead of UN climate change talks to be held here. [News Source]