Q&A: Google’s Green Energy Czar (NYT)

New Détente: Putin, Tycoons Rescue Each Other in Crisis (WSJ)

Steve Keen on the modern economy and the outlook (Video @ Barry Ritholtz)

How America Can Rise Again (James Fallows @ The Atlantic)

Google Nexus One: The TechCrunch Review ( Michael Arrington @ Tech Crunch)

Smart Grid Vendors: Do The Utilities Know Who You Are? (Greentech Media) Excellent survey on Utility awareness.

Chinese New Year (Paul Krugman @ NYT)

Remake of “Red Dawn” due in 2010 with China as the new enemy (Asia Times)

Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinction Is Deadly (Wired)

Obama at the Precipice (NYT)

Asian Stock Markets Leave Memories of Lehman Far Behind (NYT)

Picking Goldman’s Brain for Long / Short Strategies (SeekingAlpha)

Smart Grid Standards Roadmap Unveiled (Greentech Media)