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Fiona Harvey, ”Renewable Energy Can Power the World, Says Landmark IPCC Study,” Guardian, May 9, 2011.

11 exceeded those in fossil fuels ($187 billion, compared to $157 billion)

Alex Morales, ”Renewable Power Trumps Fossils for First Time as UN Talks Stall,” Bloomberg News, November 25, 2011.

12 102 percent over those installed just one year earlier

Climate Guest Blogger, ”Solar Is the 'Fastest Growing Industry in America' and Made Record Cost Reductions in 2010,” Think Progress ClimateProgress, September 16, 2011, thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/09/16/321131/solar-fastest-growing-industry-in-america-and-made-record-cost-reductions/.

13 approximately 30 percent of all CO2 emissions come from buildings

Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, ”The Built Environment,” chge.med.harvard.edu/topic/built-environment.

14 of all buildings needed by 2050, two thirds have yet to be built

Alexis Biller and Chris Phillips, ”The Role of Engineering in the Built Environment,” Inst.i.tution of Engineering and Technology lecture, London, November 26, 2009.

15 ”30 percent of the energy consumed in commercial buildings is wasted”

A Better Building. A Better Bottom Line. A Better World, Environmental Protection Agency brochure (2010), /releases/2008/06/080625090302.htm.

17 ”our government, our inst.i.tutions and our borders”

Don Belt, ”The Coming Storm: Bangladesh,” National Geographic, May 2005.

18 ”direct cause of large-scale human crises”

David Zhang and Harry Lee, ”The Causality a.n.a.lysis of Climate Change and Large-Scale Human Crisis,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (March 2011): 17296301.

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