The USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program announces the recipients of this year’s awards – seeds well sown in this case. Chesterfield County, Virginia wants to build a 30 MW solar farm. But, the dead zone of toxic algae along the Gulf Coast keeps growing – while back East refineries explode and coal trains wreck. We also listen to a bird story about immigration – Cocky Cockatoo wants to stop the Central American flycatchers at the border, proclaiming that “Nets Work.” Finally, can places like Europe and N. America, whose populations have formed from eons of immigration, say who the “true people” of their lands are?