Update: I just saw this week's edition of BusinessWeek, where the cover story is entitled  Beyond The Green Corporation.  Worth reading, although I'll warn you not to expect anything earth-shattering.  It's also worth taking a look at some of the associated articles...enjoy.

With all the great content being produced of late by Julia, Lauren, and Courtland, I’m going to take the easy way out and provide a list of suggestions for your weekend reading (rainbow) pleasure. As always, this list is not meant to be exhaustive, and (at least in this edition) focuses more on finance than any other topic. Still interested? Read on...

First, big kudos go out to NextBillion ally Christine Bowers, who has managed to forge an editorial relationship between her PSD Blog and Foreign Policy's excellent FP Passport. PSD Bloggers will contribute a series of posts called Fighting Poverty With Markets – not the flashiest title, but it got my attention. The first post was authored by Christine herself, on mobile phone banking at the BOP. In it, she notes that Kenya's Safaricom and Vodafone plan to launch M-Pesa, their m-banking product, to all of Kenya as of Monday. Stay tuned – I have heard through the grapevine that Kenya’s regulators are not happy about the quick rollout.