Super Eco

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It's a week of provocative news, insightful opinion and fresh thought about the eco-sphere. Super Eco's Thinking Thursday post rounds up recent points worth pondering.

• Japan is aiming to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth using laser beams or microwaves.
• Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a whole new kind of robot—or rather, robots ... Lots of little robots that will collect lots of location-specific data that will help scientists learn more about marine ecosystems. 
• The 10th annual Global Green Sustainable Design Awards honor advancements in the fields of industry, building, media, nonprofit organizations and public policy that design a more sustainable future.
• In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Spain set quite a record: The country got more than half its electricity from wind farms, a first for a country long invested in renewable energy.
• This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions—none of which deliver the necessary cuts—and an altered climate.
• What's it like to install a solar array at home?
• Climate scientists reporting more record highs, fewer lows.