If the market won't build clean energy fast enough, should the state step in? Advocates believe so, and they convinced the NY legislature, which passed a public-power law over a year ago. How's that law doing? And how's the larger public-power push? We get into it.

I talk with a developer & an architect about Blatchford, a sustainable community being planned & built by the city of Edmonton. Two light-rail stops, walk & bike paths, narrow streets, dense housing, a district energy system ... all minutes from downtown, in the heart of oil country!