Word: greenes
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...announcement. "This major commitment to solar power is a direct result of the progressive energy policies being adopted in China to create a sustainable, long-term market for solar and a low-carbon future for China," First Solar CEO Mike Ahearn said in a statement. (See the 10 green energy ideas...
...China Greentech Initiative, a coalition of Chinese and foreign businesses, NGOs and government organizations, environmental technologies including renewable energy could become a $1 trillion market in China by 2013. In a recent commentary, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman wrote that China's decision to go green "is the 21st-century equivalent of the Soviet Union's 1957 launch of Sputnik...
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Starting in 2004, China attempted to introduce a "green GDP," adjusted to reflect the cost of pollution. By the time officials computed the costs of tainted rivers, smoke-filled skies, shattered ecosystems and strip-mined hillsides, their growth figures had dropped so dramatically - in some provinces they fell close to zero - that the proposal was quickly scrapped. By 2007 the effort had collapsed completely...