Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Wind Watch: A collapsed hedge fund’s overlooked wind wager
But at the center of the Tontine maelstrom is a less well-known series of trades in alternative energy stocks, especially those related to wind turbines, that played a key role in the both the fund’s recent success and its collapse.
Hollywood aims to put climate change on prime time | Environment | Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Could TV really save the world from global warming?

Maybe not, but network television writers gathered on Tuesday anyway to discuss how incorporating the growing threat of climate change into primetime storylines could inspire viewers to live green.
At Arnold Schwarzenegger's behest, Rob Lowe woos Chinese officials - Los Angeles Times
This week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (no stranger to this particular phenomenon) enlisted his friend and fellow environmentalist Rob Lowe to entice the notoriously wary Chinese into a discussion about global warming while showing them a little showbiz flash.

So the politically savvy Lowe arranged, through ABC, to have seven high level Chinese government officials -- in town for Schwarzenegger's summit on climate change -- attend a Monday morning filming of " Brothers & Sisters" at the Standard hotel downtown.

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