Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Obama brings firsts for black press
POLITICO TOP STORIES :Barack Obama’s election as president is prompting major changes in the nation’s black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences... READ MORE
It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere
GUARDIAN :For a while it seemed that Shell had stopped pretending. The advertisements that filled the newspapers in 2006, featuring technicians with perfect teeth and open-necked shirts explaining how they were saving the world... READ MORE
Guess Who's Building a Green City
SPIEGEL ONLINE :In a delicious irony, Abu Dhabi is pouring oil billions into a zero-emissions metropolis in the desert... READ MORE
America's Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency
TIME :This may sound too good to be true, but the U.S. has a renewable-energy resource that is perfectly clean, remarkably cheap... READ MORE
Biofuel Powers Air New Zealand Test Flight
GREENTECH MEDIA | NEWS FEED :Air New Zealand becomes the second airline to successfully use biofuel in a test flight. Virgin Atlantic Airways and Continental Airlines are also testing biofuel blends as a way to cut fuel costs and reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions... READ MORE
JPG Magazine Says Goodbye
1 JPG MAGAZINE : Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself... READ MORE
The Latest on Homicide Rates
FREAKONOMICS :Nothing grabs headlines like dire warnings about homicide trends. And there is no criminologist better at garnering headlines than James Alan Fox... READ MORE
Uncharitable
TACTICAL PHILANTHROPY :What Pallotta gets right in his book is his broad theme that the social benefit sector is hamstrung by a cultural belief that people who do good should do so in a sacrificial way... READ MORE
This oil man favors a gas-tax hike
CNN MONEY :It's not often you hear a corporate executive advocate a tax on the product he sells, particularly not in the oil business, where opposition to gasoline taxes is fervent. But Paul Foster... READ MORE
Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel
SALON :Opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are so entrenched that any single outbreak of violence is automatically evaluated through a pre-existing lens... READ MORE