I stumbled on this video about the leasing by solar companies of solar panels in California while reading an interesting article about Dave Chameides (also known as Sustainable Dave) and his year long experiment to figure out what things one can do to help the environment without drastically changing your entire lifestyle (basically, amass less trash).
Note that (Governor) Schwarzenegger (R) in the video states: “You can protect the economy and the environment at the same time”.