STUFF ... UN: major polluters must immediately begin to reduce GHG emissions if rise in global temps to be held in check without paying higher prices later. 50 gigatons CO2 emissions in '10 should be reduced to 44 by '20, 40 by '25, 35 by '30 ... Brookfield (Canada) buying 9 hydro dams in Maine from Black Bear. 70Mw. Brings Brookfield Maine hydro capacity to 340Mw of 762Mw in state ... Top climate scientists say enviros should embrace nuke power because wind, solar, etc can't be deployed fast enough to stem climate change. (I turned pro-nuke - especially new nuke techs - 4 yrs ago.) ... Conversion of hundreds of thousands of Great Plains US grasslands to corn and soy has hurt soil's potential to store carbon ... Climate change to affect Pacific NWest US forests, water supply, coasts: report ... Carbon taxes, emissions trading cheapest way to reduce CO2 output: report ... Microsoft bought TX wind farm to help power data center ... Energentium (Canada) ready to fire up 4M gal/yr waste beer/soda-to-ethanol plant in Ontario. Also to produce el, animal feed, omega-3, CO2. Other food wastes usable ... Cargill starting up corn wet mill ethanol plant in Iowa. Bought idled in '11 ... Coast Guard put NJ offshore LNG import project on ice ... Russia letting comps other than Gazprom export LNG. Foster Wheeler contract with Rosneft, Exxon to help with initial phase of LNG plant in E Siberia ... Ukraine/Chevron deal for shale gas. Potential production up to 10BCM/yr. $350M initial investment, total could reach $10B ... LNG now accounts for half Japan's power gen. S Korea, China using more. Asia spot prices end of Oct over $17/MBTU from ~$14 earlier in year ... Smart street lighting - motion sensing tech to dim lights up to 80% when not needed - ready to go commercial. Europe pays over $13B/yr to power streetlights, over 40% of govt energy bills. Also 40M tons CO2 emiss/yr = 20M cars. 4 Netherland cities, 1 in Ireland already using. 3-4 yr payout (Come on, US.) ... Total (France), 65% majority owner of Sunpower (SPWR), selected by S Africa DOE as preferred bidder for $200M/86Mw solar project. Mid-'15 completion. Total to own 27%, 5 comps the rest ... Sustainability stalled at 4 of 5 comps surveyed ... 25% of world's crops being grown in water-stressed zones ... World demand for el motors to reach $122B in '17 ... Workers began dismantling part of Chernobyl ... IL suing Koch-owned comp over refinery waste ... China to limit new car sales ... EU set new energy subsidy guidelines. Want to phase them out ... Dozens hospitalized in Iran after pollution spike ... Beacon Power (BCON) aims to install up to 40Mw flywheel energy storage in '14 ... Google to spend 450M Euros on wind-powered Finland data center expansion ... American Solar Integrators (US) to build 240Mw solar plant in Mexico ... Geothermal unit of Indonesia energy comp to invest in up to $2.3B in geothermal plants - 8 plants ... Infinis Energy (UK) - clean/renewable energy producer - IPO up to 930M Pounds ... Sunpower (SPWR) bought Greenbotics. Provides automatic PV panel cleaning products, services.