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...stirrings are at last getting the attention of politicians and business leaders, who may not always respond to science but have a keen nose for where votes and profits lie. State and local lawmakers have started taking action to curb emissions, and major corporations are doing the same. Wal-Mart has begun installing wind turbines on its stores to generate electricity and is talking about putting solar reflectors over its parking lots. HSBC, the world's second largest bank, has pledged to neutralize its carbon output by investing in wind farms and other green projects. Even President Bush, hardly...
...RETAILER THE GREENING OF WAL-MART...
...Thursday afternoon, and the aisles at the new Wal-Mart in Shanghai are about as packed as they can get. The food sections are jammed, as are electronics and household goods. Most of the products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China...
...Chinese housewives buying genuine American DVDs at a Wal-Mart in Shanghai is about as close to trade nirvana as it gets for the U.S. these days. If there were more?lots more?Chinese with Wu's buying habits, the strident anti-China rhetoric coming from Washington could be dismissed as election-year political theater, rather than portents of a potentially damaging rupture in the commercial relations between the two countries. Simply put, China sells far more stuff to the U.S.?more than $200 billion last year?than the U.S. sells to China, a situation economists (and many politicians...
...piracy in Asia. "Our marketing strategy is universal," says Mike Staffaroni, CEO of HSL, which is based in Carrollton, Texas. From Day One, the company has aimed at controlled distribution and growth, maintaining mystique by selling at premium-priced, higher-end retailers and "nix to the likes of Wal-Mart or Target." It positions Heelys as sporting equipment, not toys, despite a target audience of 6-to-14-year-olds...