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Organic Farming Takes Root In China : NPR: Aug 4, 1:39pm 1 review agriculture, business, china, organic-farming
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90448284; From the page: "In recent years, Americans have been concerned about what's in Chinese products, including the food we eat and the toys we buy. In China, a small but growing number of people are worried about the same issues. You can see one result of this growing concern at an organic farm about 15 miles south of the city of Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province. The farm is called Fruit Garden, Fragrant Pig. Luo Yu is the farm's 37-year-old owner. Slim, with wire-frame glasses, he is an unlikely farmer. He used to be a stockbroker earning several thousand U.S. dollars a month..."

The New York Times & Log In: Aug 3, 11:10pm 2 reviews business, cooking, food
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/02food.html?em; Interesting strategy by Whole Food during a time that food prices has become the topic du jour

Technology Review: Making Electric Vehicles Practical: Apr 7, 11:19am 1 review business, automobile, electric-car
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20488?a=f; From the page: "A new approach to selling and recharging electric cars could overcome some of the basic issues that have kept them from being widely adopted. A startup called Project Better Place, which had the largest of any venture-funding round in 2007, raising $200 million, recently announced plans to install recharging infrastructure in Israel and Denmark and to sell electric cars using a business model much like that used today with cell phones."

The New York Times & Log In: Mar 3, 3:06pm 2 reviews business
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin; What? Why are the farmers who want to grow and supply fresh produce to their local market get punished? Huh? This is simply stupid.

The cold truth about climate change | Salon News: Feb 27, 11:32pm 1 review business, politics, global-warming
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers?source=ne...; Sigh. From the page: "Last year, longtime Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote, "There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind's sinful contribution." In fact, the evidence is amazingly strong. Moreover, if the relatively complex climate models are oversimplified in any respect, it is by omitting amplifying feedbacks and other factors that suggest human-caused climate change will be worse than is widely realized. "

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120398248571792011.html: Feb 26, 2:31pm 1 review business, cars, environment, suv, hybrid-car
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120398248571792011.html; From the page: "he chief executive and founder of Topics Entertainment Inc., a Renton, Wash., DVD and software publisher, Mr. James established an incentive program that offers its 55 employees $1,000 to trade in their automobiles for one with fewer cylinders in the engine. Buying a hybrid or biodiesel vehicle earns them $2,500, while car pooling at least three days a week pays $300 annually split between the ride sharers." If only the SUVs irk more CEOs...

Energy Productivity and the &8220;Fifth Fuel&8221; & The Sustainable Home Blog: Feb 18, 10:04pm 1 review business, energy, productivity
http://sunhomedesign.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/energy-productivity-and-the-fif...; This is McKinsey's earlier report on energy productivity. From the page: "McKinsey and & Company released a report in May titled Curbing Global Energy Demand Growth: The Energy Productivity Opportunity. The report documented how we could reduce the world wide annual energy demand growth rate between now and 2020 from about 2% to around 1%, simply by improving energy productivity."

Environment Blog Posts powered by BlogBurst | Reuters.com: Feb 18, 2:56pm 1 review business, energy, productivity
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/environment?type=environmentNews&w1=...; From the page: "the think-tank offshoot of my alma-mater, the management consultancy McKinsey & Company -- recently released a study claiming annual global investment of $170 billion between now and 2020 would cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, while producing an internal rate of return on investment of about 17%. Interestingly, none of this investment is in renewables or other forms of zero-carbon energy. Rather, all of the investment is in energy efficiency."

Fantasy Economics and the Sustainable Society Revolution & The Sustainable Home …: Feb 14, 2:37pm 1 review business, economics, environment
http://sunhomedesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/fantasy-economics-and-the-susta...; Most of the current economic theories have ignored many relevant factors, such as the finite supply of non-renewable raw materials and cost associated with disposal. We need more realistic economic theories, not the fantasy kinds. From the page: "However, prices for many goods also reflect a fantasy economics that assumes an infinite supply of non-renewable raw materials and zero costs associated with the consumption and disposal of goods. For example, the economic activity associated with an asbestos plant and economic activity to clean up the resulting super-fund site are both counted as positive contributions to our GNP."

A Ponzi Scheme Wrapped in a Three Piece Suit of Respectability & The Sustainable…: Feb 12, 10:31pm 1 review business, economics
http://sunhomedesign.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/a-ponzi-scheme-wrapped-in-a-thr...; Love the in-depth discussion of validity of current economic theories. From the page: "When it comes to our mainstream economic theory, it seems that we are not much removed from our ancestors who thought the earth was flat or at the center of the universe. The neo-classical economics currently taught in all of our major universities dominates both our world view and governmental policy making. Developed in a time of abundant natural resources, it assumes that non-renewable natural resources are infinite and ignores the environmental costs of their production and consumption. "