links for 2010-03-04

• America’s Unfounded Fears of A Green-Tech Race with China by Christina Larson: Yale Environment 360
  comments too are interesting.
  (tags: china united-states energy climatechange green economy sustainability)
• The Masdar Initiative – Re-Energizing the World
  (tags: energy abudhabi Masdar renewable solar wind)
• Arab society's crunch points, by Brian Whitaker
  Quite interesting.
  "The book covers a lot of different issues and I won’t try to mention all of them here, but I want highlight four particular crunch points. I call them crunch points because they are areas where Arab society often tries to have it both ways but in my view will sooner or later be forced to make a decisive choice one way or the other. I’ll summarise them under the headings of knowledge, equal rights, secularism and citizenship. "
  (tags: egypt arab culture society development islamism islam history middleeast humanrights activism)
• Not Your Father : The New Yorker
  meh. lame, but seems to have an audience.
  (tags: taliban islamism islamist comedy)