Posted April 16, 2008 by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
President Bush delivered a much-hyped speech on the administration's supposedly new global warming policy agenda today in the White House Rose Garden. Here are my initial reactions: The plan, if you can call it that, lags far behind the political...continued→
Posted February 14, 2008 by Jon Coifman
Presidential candidates have been out and about this week talking about their respective plans to create thousands of new “green collar” jobs. It’s the right idea, but the wrong way to talk about it. Building the clean, sustainable, energy efficiency...continued→
Posted February 13, 2008 by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
In a closed door session recently, General Motors product development chief and granddaddy of Detroit automotive management Bob Lutz announced to a group of reporters in Dallas that global warming is “a crock of sh*t”.Yes, this is the very same...continued→
Posted December 17, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Solving Global Warming
Global warming treaty talks wrapped up this weekend in Bali delivered a stirring international rebuke to the intransigent "diplomacy" of the Bush administration, and produced a remarkable last-minute breakthrough in the stalemate over US versus developing country action. My colleague...continued→
Posted December 6, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Greening China, Solving Global Warming
Mark your calendars, folks. This is the week that China starts exporting wind turbines to the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal’s energy blog, Mingyang Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd., has inked it’s first American deal for...continued→
Posted November 29, 2007 by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
Today McKinsey & Company, one of the world's leading management consulting firms released a sweeping new assessment of the more than 250 measures that together would get us into the ballpark of the global warming emission cuts now on...continued→
Posted November 29, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Solving Global Warming
Starting next week, planeloads of negotiators from around the globe will be meeting in Bali, Indonesia to begin mapping out a successor to the Kyoto global warming treaty inked 10 years ago and which expires in 2012. The procedings are...continued→
Posted November 20, 2007 by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
Out in Chicago, beyond the radar of coastal elite media watchers, a serious journalism ethics scandal is unfolding.Some have framed it as free speech and open debate, but that is manifestly not the issue. The real question is whether a...continued→
Posted August 29, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Don't be alarmed on your way to work if the Hummer in the next lane is being driven by a chicken. Two animal rights groups have launched high-visibility campaigns arguing that eating meat causes more global warming pollution than your...continued→
Posted August 25, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Greening China
Claudia Deutch has an interesting interview with George Feldenkreis, Chairman of the Perry Ellis clothing label in the Saturday edition of the New York Times (which I am increasingly convinced is a more interesting paper than the vaunted Sunday bundle)....continued→
Posted August 14, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Greening China
Coverage of the heatlh and environmental challenges that await athletes and spectators at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China is starting to heat up. Chinese officials have been promising significant cuts the country’s famously terrible air pollution, but results so...continued→
Posted August 14, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Living Sustainably
I did an hour-long segment on plastic grocery bags today on the Diane Rehm Show, a nationally syndicated NPR program produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C. The other guests were Sam Shropshire, Alderman from the Seventh Ward in Annapolis, Maryland...continued→
Posted August 2, 2007 by Jon Coifman in The Media and the Environment
Minneapolis is where I grew up. Depending on which way mom, dad or the bus was going, I went over, under or around the I-35W bridge on my way to school everyday for about 10 years. I also (mis)spent a...continued→
Posted August 1, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Greening China
James Fallows has been doing great journalism on the intersection of business, economics, culture and trade for more than 20 years. Way back when, it was Japan. Now he's living in China. This month's Atlantic carries his long piece on...continued→
Posted July 31, 2007 by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
General Motors posted new earnings numbers this morning to mostly rosy headlines. Drudge Report is running the story under the banner "USA! USA! GM posts $891-million profit…" But all is not well for the big automaker, which lost its status...continued→
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