Sex: the next ethical industry? | Grist

Feel like watching the latest Fair Trade-certified porn film? The actors all enjoy decent pay, health insurance, and pensions. The carbon impact of the set lighting and travel is offset through investment in clean, efficient cookstoves sold at affordable prices to women in rural Africa.

Solar developers race clock as sun sets on lucrative incentives | Grist

The catch is that developers must start digging dirt on their projects by year's end to qualify for the cash grants. Hence, the mad dash by California regulators to approve big solar power projects over the past three months so builders can meet that deadline.

Climate Science Survives Climate Diplomacy - NYTimes.com

For negotiators seeking a treaty to ignore important qualifying scientific language is utterly counterproductive and bound — appropriately — to be attacked.

David Kroodsma: Andy Revkin: You've Communicated This Issue for 20 years. How Does Our Collective Failure Make You Feel?

As for how he felt, Andy expressed muted frustration. He then said that the apparent failure of conventional journalism is one reason that he left the New York Times. He sees the future of communication as being more innovative: using blogs and improved multimedia. He finished by saying that he did not lament the end of 20th century journalism because these new forms of communication forms allow more engagement and feedback.