Web Roundup

• Governor Schwarzenegger convened a two-day Global Climate Summit this week. NRDC Senior Scientist Peter Miller blogged about the Summit here. Andrew Revkin covered Obama's video message to the summit meeting in this post. Frances Beinecke, Liz Barratt-Brown and Jake Schmidt also wrote about it on Switchboard.
• NBC's Brian Williams calls "clean coal" an oxymoron. Read NRDC Climate Campaign Director Pete Altman's post about it here.
• The Take Back the Filter campaign successfully pressures Brita to recycle its filters.
• Salon lists Bush's seven deadly environmental sins and what Obama needs to do to get the U.S. back on track.
• Treehugger offers Thanksgiving tips for vegetarians.
• Times Square is getting a wind- and solar-powered billboard.
• The U.S. Bureau of Land Management auctions land for oil and gas drilling next to several national parks. Robert Redford weighs in on Greenlight, NRDC's citizen journalism blog. Read Frances Beinecke's post about it here.
• Science Daily reports that ten of the world's most popular pesticides can be toxic to amphibians when mixed even at low concentrations.
• Triple Pundit highlights efforts to rebuild the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans with eco-friendly houses.
• A driver gets 45 days in jail for driving around with cyclist on hood of his car. Scott Dodd writes about it here.
• The diesel Volkswagon Jetta TDI gets named Green Car of the Year (Green Tech Pastures, Autopia).
• San Francisco Bay area mayors announce coordinated policies to accelerate building of electric vehicle infrastructure.
• Environmentalists use civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants.

Think I missed anything really great out there this week? Feel free to share it in the Comments section.

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