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On Friday evening as the sun descended over the old Hollywood set of “Desperate Housewives,” Elon Musk took to a stage and fired up his presentation about climate change.

It wasn’t until about a minute into the speech that Musk casually let the crowd in on Tesla’s big secret. “The interesting thing is that the houses you see around you are all solar houses,” Musk said. “Did you notice?”

This is the future of solar, Musk proclaimed. “You’ll want to call your neighbors over and say ‘check out the sweet roof.’ It’s not a phrase you hear often.”

What’s in your jeans? A rogue’s gallery of unpronounceable chemicals whose effects on humans are suspect.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZS) will venture further off-benchmark for its passive global equity holdings following a just-announced climate change policy.

According to a NZS spokesperson, the ‘bespoke’ passive offshore shares portfolio would take the first hit as the $31.6 billion fund implemented its wide-sweeping climate change investment strategy revealed last week.

About 5 percent of the Super Fund's $31 billion portfolio is invested in fossil fuel companies.

Super Fund chief executive Adrian Orr said some of these assets faced a dwindling market or would become obsolete in the future so it made financial sense to sell them.

New Zealand's three largest government investment funds have more than $20 million invested in foreign palm oil companies linked to devastation of Indonesian rainforests.

Groups fighting to save the critical habitats for Sumatran tigers, orangutans and thousands of other threatened animals are appalled and want the funds pulled immediately.