Last month, while Cummins' second-quarter sales of portable power generators fell 35 percent to $610 million, sales in China fell by almost half that rate as plans to lavish money on construction projects help to cushion the profits of one of Cummins' fastest growing businesses. “We are definitely seeing some benefits” from the stimulus, said [...]
U.S. and China Agree to Study Ways to Make Buildings More Energy-Efficient
Ending his first official visit to China, the United States energy secretary, Steven Chu, said the two nations had agreed to plan joint studies on ways to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, a major issue in addressing China’s contribution to climate change. Mr. Chu said that the United States and China had drafted a [...]
New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest | Green Business | Reuters
WASHINGTON Reuters – To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country. Since about half the planet’s climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its [...]
Burger King Drive-Thru Test Site For Generating Roadway Energy – PSFK.com
A Burger King drive-thru in Hillside, New Jersey will be the test site for a new technology taking advantage of a car’s weight to capture the kinetic energy while it is waiting. New Energy Technologies, a next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer, will field test its latest MotionPower prototype at the roadside establishment. MotionPower aims [...]
Can Tesla Become a Real Automaker?
Once again, the federal government is handing billions of dollars to auto companies. The last round of loans raised the question of whether General Motors and Chrysler could shake off their creaky ways and survive to pay the money back. The question this time: Can Tesla Motors become enough like one of those old car [...]
Profiting From Sustainable Management in Developing Countries – WSJ.com
For companies operating in developing countries, it pays to commit to improving social and environmental conditions By LUTZ KAUFMANN , FELIX REIMANN, Matthias Ehrgott and JOHAN RAUER A series of scandals over the years have taught Western companies an important lesson about operating in developing countries: Any indication that a company or one of its suppliers is [...]
BeyondTalk.net
December 7-18, 2009, the world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide what to do about climate change. If this meeting were held today, it would produce an agreement – but it wouldn’t be strong enough to do much good.* In order to bring global CO2 back to the safe zone, we need to make [...]
Asking the wrong questions about climate change
A true global brainstorming approach would first discuss the best technological and economic options available, and how to improve these options through targeted research and development and better economic incentives. via Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 — English Window to China News.
List of countries by electricity consumption
This list of countries by electricity consumption is mostly based on The World Factbook.[1] For informational purposes several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. In addition, the per capita data for many countries may be slightly inaccurate as population data may not be for the same year that the consumption data are. Population [...]
Climate Change and China’s Poor
Last week , as a result of Greenpeace’s report that Climate Change Hurts China’s Poor, I was contacted by a media outlet for some comments. It is one of those issues whose relationships to poverty will surely be examined going forward in great detail as the effects of climate change are predicted to restrict many [...]