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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

It's In The Bag

August 14, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Living Sustainably

Tags:
consumers, greenliving, markettransformation, plasticbags, recycling, shopping

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

Bumper to Bumper

June 20, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise

Tags:
business, markettransformation, sprawl, wal-mart

I did an interview Sunday night with a nationally syndicated columnist writing about an argument put forth in Grist (www.grist.org) and that I cannot now find, saying essentially that groups like NRDC which are working with Wal-Mart on various greening initiatives...continued