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 [...]
One factory’s downfall is another business’ success
In a subtle twist of irony, Chicago’s Frederick Cooper Lamp factory was shut down in 2005 because of increased competition from China’s booming manufacturing economy, only to be reborn into the Chicago Green Exchange, “an epicenter for green businesses and organizations in the [...]