SSRN-The Wages of
Failure: Executive
Compensation at Bear
Stearns and Lehman
2000-2008 by Lucian
Bebchuk, Alma Cohen,
Holger Spamann The
standard narrative of the
meltdown of Bear Stearns
and Lehman Brothers
assumes that the wealth
of the top execu...
Minerva
Novoa,Advocacy Web
Administrator
A bill that would put
credit card reforms in
place now rather than in
three months was just
blocked in the Senate. So
it's time to take the
fight straight to the
banks!
Tell the...
Adults who are exposed to
lead as children
experience permanent
brain damage, according
to a new study from the
Cincinnati
Children’s
Environmental Health
Center, which used
functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI)
to evaluate brain
functio...
Australia has some truly
incredible wildlife:
egg-laying mammals,
kangaroos that live in
trees, desert-dwelling
frogs and more species of
reptile than anywhere
else on earth.
Unfortunately
weâve
also managed to give our
native specie...
Would a
smiley face on your
energy bill inspire you
to save energy? You may
say “no,” but
a real-world example
found that smiley faces
and frowny faces actually
make a big
difference in energy use.
It’s all go...
I know what you’re
thinking –
“You recently
recorded your
Thanksgiving Thoughts
video, in which you said:
“Too often we are
focused on stuff, and yet
that stuff is just that:
stuff. It
wonât
make us happier, ...
The pilfering of email
correspondence among
climate scientists from a
major climate center in
Britain two weeks ago has
grown into a very public
controversy
unimaginatively dubbed
âClimat
egate.â
Some of the emails r...
Planet Change? Yet
another web campaign
against climate change?
Does the world really
need one more of those?
Yes — because this
one is different. And can
make a real difference
— especially beyond
the upcoming United
Nations climate meeti...
Thanksgiving: Gain 5
pounds, take 5 days off.
Monday After
Thanksgiving: Come back
to work, find 5 great new
green stories, fresh from
the online space.
I’ll make that
trade-off any Cool Green
Morning. (See you on the
elliptical.)
Who’s g...