Obama's Asian Angst
I like that President Obama accords his Asian peers with respect, bowing if tradition calls for it, even though it raises the hackles of some wingnuts. But bowing to the wishes of China is another matter altogether.
I like that President Obama accords his Asian peers with respect, bowing if tradition calls for it, even though it raises the hackles of some wingnuts. But bowing to the wishes of China is another matter altogether.
Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
At the end of last year, our friends at The Fresh Ideas Group went out on a limb with some public predictions about how Americans would act in 2009. As the year winds down, let's see how they did.
Posted 10.05.2009 | Impact
Fair trade organizations, vendors and consumers around the globe have banded together to invite First Lady Michelle Obama to declare the White House "...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
The USW is in solidarity with Chinese and Indonesian workers who suffer abuse at the hands of their employers. It is governmental policies that injure us both and that we oppose. China cheats.
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Why, exactly, is protectionism so bad? Why can't we have fair trade that lifts workers and protects the environment instead of unregulated free trade that exploits workers and the environment?
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
When the leaders of the G-20 nations arrive in Pittsburgh, I want them to know I am fomenting revolution -- Industrial revolution. Specifically, a 21st-century burgeoning of green manufacturing in the United States.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.
Waylon Lewis | Posted 08.05.2009 | Green
Starbucks is already Fair-Trade. Now, they say they're going green -- and supporting local -- by 2010. If they actually do it, I might have to give up my 15-year buycott.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
It now seems Washington's pandering to populist sentiments in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is going to actually result in jobs losses right here in the United States.
Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy
A publicity photo shoot for The Mother Nature Network goes off the rails when I dislocate my shoulder while half-neked in Columbus Circle.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
A group of tire importers that should be competitors banded together recently to ally themselves with China in a trade case. Doesn't sound like th...
Seth Goldman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
Yes, it's an unlikely path, but my career as a beverage entrepreneur actually has its roots in the national service movement.
Michael DeJong | Posted 05.13.2009 | Green
In an industry-wide turn-around, many high-end labels are trying to change their luxury goods businesses by "double air kissing" new environmental and labor standards.
Scott Paul | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business
We need to make more things here. Developing new technology and consuming alone do not make for a stable economy, but that's been our economic strategy for the past decade.
Washington Post | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Rio -- Brazil's president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva got free coffee from President Obama at the White House Saturday. But back home he'll pay $20 f...
Scott Paul | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
It's time to end the intolerant theocracy of free trade and usher in a responsible dialogue about what works and what doesn't work. Get out of the gutter and into the debate.
Tracy Hepler | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
Elsana and her three Israeli-Bedouin partners envisioned a better life for themselves and founded the Association for the Improvement of Women's Status, Lakia in 1992.
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business
Some people make a lot of money for themselves by undermining our wage, safety and pollution standards. So they tell us that protecting ourselves is wrong.
Justin Krebs | Posted 12.26.2008 | Style
In every community, there are these businesses -- and we should support them. But first, we have to learn about them. So, which are your favorites?
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.
Sandor Ellix Katz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Style
I'm home from Turin, in northwestern Italy, where I attended Terra Madre, a 4-day gathering of farmers, fermenters, food transformers, cooks, food researchers, and writers from 154 countries.
Paige Donner | Posted 11.11.2008 | Green
Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted The Eco-Fashion Runway show presented by Gen Art to kick off L.A.'s Fashion Week.
David Sirota | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Nobody is against trade. Nobody. Though "free" traders say that anyone opposing their agenda is "anti-trade" that's just not true...at all. Fair traders are for vigorous trade, just with a different set of rules.
Scott Paul | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics