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This week's Climate Cast begins and ends in California, with a quick trip to Fargo in between. Here's what's on the show:

California has taken a bold step into what looks like our solar future.

 on most new home construction by 2020. Will this climate-friendly trend spread to your state soon?


, electricity policy manager for Energy Innovation in San Francisco, tells us what the decision means. 

 This week's climate voice comes from Fargo, N.D., where Bagu is a university professor.

Here's a climate change solution that's right under our feet.

 California is turning soils into carbon-sucking factories. Grist 

 California orchards and farms are planting ground cover like clover to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil. The technique can pull thousands of pounds of carbon from the atmosphere, hold water and improve soil health, and feed the bees who pollinate the orchards.

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Clean energy and soils as carbon-sucking factories, this week on Climate Cast.

This week's Climate Cast begins and ends in California, with a quick trip to Fargo in between.

California's bold climate solutions

116,000 thin-film solar panels will create 10 megawatts

California's bold climate solutions

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