In the U.S. West, one unlikely industry, despite politics, is on the verge of aligning opposite parties.  It's a fascinating study in contrasts to examine how a new language of wind power economics is evolving and how this could bring opposite forces surrounding climate change to common ground.

In the midst of a summer of strife that brought an international air disaster in a Ukrainian war zone, the first Ebola epidemic the world has ever known, another Palestinian - Israeli flare up and Mideast reprise of extremist beheadings and air strikes, renewable energy web watchers latched onto one unifying headline: 'Global Investments in Clean Energy Surges'. At last a Bloomberg New Energy Finance press release offered a reprieve fom the science-fiction-sounding script of unstoppable deaths, injuries and destruction amid the Earth's ultimate oil lands.