Copenhagen, Denmark—While policy makers in Washington and Lansing fight tooth-and-nail over how much support to provide clean energy industries, Denmark is charging full-speed ahead with a formidable array of government-backed technology innovations that have buoyed its economy, galvanized its citizens and made it a key exporter of renewable power ideas and hardware. Whether you admire or distrust the Danish approach that involves extensive government partnership and involvement with its citizens and private industry, one thing is clear: it has made the island nation a formidable global economic force that belies its tiny size.

Peter Sinclair doesn’t suffer climate change skeptics gladly. So the Midland resident has taken to blasting fact-sized holes in their arguments through a series of innovative, caustic and educational YouTube videos that have gained a national following this year.

MIchigan—not Washington DC—will maintain control of the state’s wetlands under a deal reached in large part because of the aggressive advocacy of Michigan Environmental Council (MEC) member group Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council.