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Game On: China Wind Comes to Montana

December 6, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
GE, globaleconomy, renewables, windfarms, windpower, windturbines

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...

Dirty Laundry

August 25, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China

Tags:
china, clothing, cotton, globalization, markettransformation, TheGap, wal-mart

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)....

Everybody Talks About the Weather; China is Doing Something About It

August 14, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China

Tags:
2008olympics, airpollution, airquality, beijing, china, cleanair, particulates

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...

Shenzen: Scale + Speed = Epic Environmental Challenge

August 1, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China

Tags:
globaleconomy, globalization, shenzen

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...

You Make It, You Bought It

June 21, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
china, co2, globalwarming, international-governance, pollution

According to the Associated Press and other sources today, China is pushing back on Western observers who are spotlighting the country's rising CO2 emissions (which may or may not have surpassed ours, depending on who you believe). In the past,...