Cooler, a new web site that enables consumers to eliminate the global warming impact of the goods and services they purchase online, has been launched by Redefining Progress, a think tank that helped design America’s most ground-breaking global warming laws and the Ecological Footprint and was supported by the David and Lucille N. Packard Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.

PayPal's Dan Schatt (formerly an industry analyst for Celent and thirty days into his new strategy role at PayPal) blogs about his views on three important payment trends: 1) Cash continues to become electrified; 2) Convenience is spurring debit; and, 3) In a saturated market, rewards matter. Dan welcomes comments about his views over on the PayPal Blog.

James Scurlock, author of Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders and the documentary film Maxed Out, writes for the Huffington Post about the current credit crisis in subprime mortgages. He says that "as the refi cash stops flowing, it is a mathematical certainty that people will be forced to stop paying the credit card bill as well."

Midwest Airlines has announced that PayPal is now available as a payment option to those purchasing tickets on the Midwest Airlines Web site.

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