This article in Red Pepper Magazine discusses the possibility of a state-managed green investment bank, or at least greater public involvement in state recapitalised banks, after it has emerged that RBS has loaned over $2.7bn to companies involved with oil extraction from Canada’s tar sands.

Here’s a fantastic infographic describing brain development, done in the style of a comic.

I commented on BBC Panorama’s blog about palm oil and orangutans after Panorama raised awareness to logging and habitat desruction in Indonesia – though interest in the post quickly died off just as it looked like it was being hijacked by palm-oil lobbyists. Note to self – it’s just not worth commenting on BBC blogs. Related: mongabay.com reports that REDD funding for rainforest preservation is likely to have a hard time competing with palm oil revenues, and the EU appears to be falling for the idea that destroying rainforests makes good environmental sense.

Oxfam’s Head of Research Duncan Green kindly provides subtitles for non-economists to explain the recent major rethink at the IMF:

Translation: we thought we knew it all. We don’t. Back to the drawing board.

The ACLU is suing USAID over the alleged unconstitutional use of aid money for religion-based HIV prevention programs, and it turns out that all of the ‘orphans’ that were to be taken by a US baptist group actually had parents. Not such a shock.

Finally, a story about falling in love and making the ultimate mixtape.

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