Recommended Reading: May 8, 2007

Links to must-read articles for thepanelist.net readers. Enjoy!

Going green doesn’t have to be as complicated as it sounds: 50 ways to help the planet.

The Rockefellers want ExxonMobil to think again on green issues but increasingly oil giants look to government for leadership.

Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China’s politics, says The Economist.

"This contrast between the official government statistics and day-to-day reality has led to a boomlet in skepticism about what the government is up to," says David Leonhardt at The New York Times. "So when the new inflation numbers come out next week, they will indeed be misleading. They will be artificially high."

A cartoon explaining the stimulus package