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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)....continued

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...continued

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,...continued