Five Ways to Fix the Housing Industry

I like these:
1) No more McMansions.
2) Fix what we’ve got.
3) Ration carbon for construction.
4) No more hurricane bait.
5) Don’t finance unless it is green.
For the entire treehugger.com article:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/memo-to-government-housing.php

Watch Walmart Grow

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/?walmart

Solar Power and Current Finance

From the Wall Street Journal:

For the solar-power industry, it was the best of times and the worst of times—all in the space of a long weekend. On Friday, after the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill that included juicy tax breaks for solar power, champagne was the order of the day. By Monday, as [...]

The Financial Mess Explained

The best report on the financial derivatives and manipulations that caused our current financial distress.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365