This Month in Green:

• The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of the main drivers of global climate change.
• China Idles 40% of Windpower Turbine Output Capacity.
• …the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use. The proceeds would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs, including one that would repay people or businesses that use solar panels to contribute to the power grid.
• Japan weakens climate bill, pressured by industry.
• The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground.
• New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Recharge Times for Batteries.
• Photographs of recently extinct species in England.
• An editorial on solar energy in Texas.
• China and India join Copenhagen accord.
• Birds are shrinking.
• US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear.
• There are 11 fewer Siberian tigers.
• South Africa can’t meet its power needs without loan.
• Beijing and Electric Bikes.
• Carbon footprint of the UK music industry.
• Labour’s general election manifesto proposes creating community energy co-ops.
• Eco-friendly ads that disappear in the rain.
• China looks to ‘combustible ice’ as a fuel source.
• Algae to solve the Pentagon’s fuel problem.