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Ecomagination and Environmental Laws Make Money for GE in China
Big money, big change: General Electric pushes for environmental laws and revs up Ecomagination in China
The Wall Street Journal recently hosted a special event, ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital, that focuses on a “CEO-level view of the rapidly developing relationship between the environment and the bottom line.” Program participant Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of [...]
Green Glam in China
(Editor’s note: Please welcome our first post by contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn about some of the benefits of luxury consumption and “lifestyle” publications in China!)
China’s public is receiving a mixed message from mainstream media. On the one hand, they are told development is destroying the environment. On the other hand, the messages equate luxury [...]
China prepares for socially responsible mutual fund
“China’s First SRI To Be Issued“
China CSR
March 24, 2008
Industrial Fund Management has been approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission to begin the first socially responsible investment product in China.
It will be issued through eight Chinese banks and other securities companies on March 28. The most prominent feature of the SRI is that it will [...]
The China Business Network: URBN Hotel & Resorts
Christine Lu of The China Business Network brings us another great podcast about URBN Hotels & Resorts, an eco-friendly boutique hotel and resort company based in Shanghai. The company’s first luxury hotel, a 28-room property catered to design-focused “urban world travelers,” bills itself as being China’s first carbon neutral hotel.
URBN Hotels’ vision is to expand [...]
Social entrepreneurship in Sichuan: Interview with Meg Young of Ecologia, a sustainable development program
This post is part of an occasional series of interviews with those working on development and sustainability issues in China, particularly southwestern Sichuan province.
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Contributing blogger Mark Hiew brings you an interview with Meg Young from Ecologia, an example of social entrepreneurship through rabbit farming in Sichuan. Here, Young explains some of her successes and development [...]
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