• Slate's The Big Money takes a video tour of NRDC's LEED-Platinum Santa Monica office. NRDC's Kaid Benfield highlights the good life in Santa Monica on his blog.
• The Takeaway's week-long energy series takes listeners on a trip along the West coast to look at innovators and inventions that might bring us into the new energy economy. Segments feature growing algae for fuel, Google's energy consumption and a talk with sustainable business experts at TED conference.
• Utility companies encourage energy efficiency by rating customers' energy use against their neighbors.
• Obama wants home appliances to be more energy efficient.
• Vice President Biden's new task force will focus on green jobs.  
• Science Daily reports that cellulosic ethanol might be better for human health because it emits smaller amounts of particulate matter.
• Google Earth's latest upgrade includes oceans. Users can dive beneath the surface to visit the Mariana Trench, explore the ocean with experts and learn about global warming. Andrew Revkin wonders whether this tool can help change people's habits and protect oceans.
• Need a laugh? Watch SNL's chewable diapers skit.
• Salon responds to Green Wombat's post that the wind industry now employs more people than coal mining in the United States.
• Could you live without a refrigerator? Find out how some environmentalists are doing in this NY Times article.
• Fortune Magazine picks Frances Beinecke as one of the five "power" people "in the right place at the right time."
• Fast Company offers tips on how to break into the green-collar job market.
• A new study tallies corn ethanol's climate and health costs.
• Malta unveils deal with IBM to digitize its electricity grid and water system.
• The Thin Green Line writes that while transit ridership is up, many cities are considering cutting service and increasing fares.
• A new study finds that sea level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would be 25% higher in North America than previously thought.

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