WARNING: News headlines can give you a headache.

For example, take typical headlines on today’s environmental stories: “Earth’s Climate Getting Catastrophically Hotter, Faster,” “Greenhouse Pollution Increasing Again,” “President Calls Global Warming a Hoax,” “Fracking Executive Now Runs Energy Department,” “U.S. Funding New Coal Plants,” “White House Abruptly Cancels Wind-Power Projects.”

Whew! My head hurts. The negativity in such headlines tells people that grassroots activism demanding clean energy and environmental sanity is futile, for the government has been shanghaied by a political cabal of corporate executives.

But wait — while it doesn’t get front page treatment, a bracing wind of change is blowing in from the countryside! It turns out that producers, funders and consumers of alternative energy have not........

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