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Lars Doucet, whose review of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty won the first ACX book review contest, revisits his case for land value taxes, noting LVT-enabling laws passed this year in two U.S. states.

Green Mountain Power leases two home batteries to customers for $55 a month over 10 years and pools them into a virtual power plant; more than 5,500 Vermonters now have them, and the BBC reports the network is the state’s largest power source, keeping participants powered through storms.

The Washington Post reports that the United States had its warmest and most humid September on record. We couldn’t open the Post’s article to check its national figures. The National Weather Service office in Paducah, Ky., reports temperatures 7–8°F above normal across its region, the warmest September on record at Cape Girardeau and Poplar Bluff, Mo., and humidity "more on par with … July".

Wine sales have fallen more than 20% over five years, and growers have taken roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards out of production. KQED reports Lodi-area growers leaving grapes unpicked and tearing out vines for almonds, pistachios and olives.