CONTENTS: Media's Mandate in a Democracy; Building Our Media: Community Broadcasting, Social Movements & Media Democratization; Democracy, Development, Peace & Communication: An Overview of their Roles & Interaction; Structural & Social Forces Restricting Media News Content in Democracies: A Critical Perspective; Media in New Democracies: Agents for Change or Beneficiaries of Change; Democracy in the Media Society: Changing Media Structures -- Changing Political Communication?; Media & Judicial Activism; E-Democracy in Australia: The Challenge of Evolving a Successful Model; Democracy of, in & through Communication: Struggles Around Public Service in Canada in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Media in the New Political Order; Media Use in Estonia: Trends & Patterns.

CONTENTS: Solar: The Most Important Renewable of the Future; Payable & other Financial Tests for Solar Electric Systems; Exploring the Economic Value of EPAct 2005's PV Tax Credits; Brokering for Reducing Costs & Increasing Customer Satisfaction in Solar Sales; Solar Energy: Gearing up to Cope; Technology Advances in Delivering Cost-Competitive Solar Energy; 2008 Photovoltaic Trends: Innovative Thin Film Technology & Large-Scale Power Plants: Gigawatt Perspectives in the USA; Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems -- Energy Storage (SEGIS-ES); Solarscapes -- A New Face for PV; Hybrid Solar Lighting Illuminates Energy Savings; Solar Greenhouse Resources: Horticulture Resource List; Electricity from Solar Home Systems in South Africa; Power for Africa; Solar Hybrid Systems; Creating a Credit Market for Solar Thermal: The PROSOL Project in Tunisia; Solar Power in India: The Nascent Stage.

Contents include: "Wind Harvest: Prospects & Problems"; "Wind Power; Whose Wind? : Prospects for Cooperative & Community Wind Development on the US Upper Great Plains"; "Wind Energy: Issues to Consider"; "Wind Power Today; Whither Wind?"; "Wind Energy: A Promising Future"; "A Review of NDT Techniques for Wind Turbines"; "Offshore Wind Power on the Horizon: A New Energy Frontier for Oceans, People & Wildlife"; "Wind Farm Development & Operation: A Case Study"; "Impact of Trade Wind Offshore Wind Power Capacity Scenarios on Power Flows in the European HV Network"; "Support for Wind Resource Assessment & Wind Farm Development in China"; "Institutional Factors & Knowledge Co- Evolution for Developing the Wind Energy Industry in India"; "Wind Energy in India: The Future & the Challenge; Research & Assessment of Wind Turbine's Noise in Vydmantai"; and, "Wind Resources".