Word: greenes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...relatively simple disincentive that causes people to cut back. But how do you cut back without putting even more people out of work? Without bringing the economy to a grinding halt? That's the challenge. There's this idea that we'll revive the economy with green alternatives, but that's harder to pull off than we think. You can't just swap one form of consumption for another and expect to come out ahead...
...Read "Four Years Later, New Orleans' Green Makeover...
...crisis remedies, which seem to have prevented an economic crash. He is making quiet but substantial progress on education reform; his energy policy will probably be all carrots and no sticks - that is, no cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions - but it will provide a significant boost to green-energy industries. And despite the screechers of summer, he seems likely to pass a universal-health-care plan...
...relatively short period, consider a conference held two years ago on the tropical island of Hainan, where, every year, China invites the high and mighty from around the world to address the weighty issues of the day at a plush resort. The theme of the conference was "Green China," and if there was a single underlying idea, it was that China, having just become the world's largest emitter of CO2 gases, was going to jump wholeheartedly on the global bandwagon to combat climate change. But on the conference's final day, during the main event and keynote address, President...
Read how China could turn green...