PhillyDeals: After the fall: Clean energy as a Wall Street darling | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/05/2009

In a world in which SUV factories, derivatives-trading floors, and home-loan offices are idled, and the economy they inflated is broken, some Wall Street investment bankers are seeking new lives as alternative-energy deal-makers.

President Obama set to embark on weeklong trip; Russia, Italy and Ghana on itinerary

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is embarking on his next foreign mission.

He leaves late Sunday on a weeklong trip that takes him to Russia, Italy and Ghana. The mission is anchored around the G-8 economic summit in Rome. High on the agenda are international efforts to confront climate change.

Suggested question for reporters: Is Obama buying carbon offsets for this fossil-fueled trip? If not, why not?