Students tired of the doomsday beat and looking for optimistic viewpoints to try on for size (for their final essay in Core III) might like this one, from Andrew Revkin's New York Times Blog:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/an-earth-scientist-explores-the-biggest-climate-threat-fear/#more-49188
And, actually (thirty minutes later into my Sunday papers), here's another:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/business/energy-environment/by-2023-a-changed-world-in-energy.html?pagewanted=1&src=recg
A word of caution: Both optimism and pessimism are addictive.
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