Jeremy Carl on China and “clean coal”

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Wired magazine interviews Stanford University’s Jeremy Carl, a research fellow in the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development.
Here’s what he has to say about China’s role in the coal industry:

All We Are Saying Is, Give (Clean) Coal a Chance
By Alexis Madrigal
November 6, 2007

Wired News: Can you give us an idea [...]

McKinsey: ‘Curbing the growth of global energy demand’

A recent article from The McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, recommends ways to cut the growth in worldwide energy demand. “The key is a concerted global effort to boost energy productivity,” the report says, and China, especially, plays a “crucial role” in that effort.

Curbing the growth of [...]

The Greenest Yuan

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According to Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune:
Green credit: To fight pollution, China takes the capitalist route
July 30, 2007
BEIJING: The Chinese environmental agency is working with the banking authorities to identify companies that fail pollution checks or bypass environmental assessments for new projects and to restrict their access to fresh credit.
In essence, the [...]

Energy-saving (or -wasting) lightbulbs?

WAIT, BUT I THOUGHT…
Energy-saving lightbulbs (or CFLs, “compact fluorescent lamps“) are supposed to be good for the environment, right? Better than those traditional, incandescent fixtures, right?
They last longer, they save money, they use less electricity, they reduce greenhouse gas emissions…and they’re also becoming hip and trendy among Generation Y and Hollywood stars (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a.k.a. [...]