The Independent ran a great story last week about how wind energy is transforming the economy and life of a small Spanish village:

As you approach the village of La Muela, the white, energy-producing windmills with their spinning blades appear in splendid geometric formation. They rise up to dominate the horizon, ranging across the jagged ridges and barren windswept plains like a forest of slender mechanical trees: the symbols of an extraordinary wind-assisted renaissance in this impoverished corner of rural Spain.

(via Viridian list)