
Christine Ervin is a contributor to GreenBiz.com. She speaks, writes and consults on two of the most promising market trends of our time: greening the built environment and clean energy. She also focuses on how these markets are pivotal to tackling what may be the greatest challenge of our times: climate change.
It's time to embrace the abundance that can flow from nature's limits -- starting with caps on greenhouse gas emissions and moving toward a carbon-neutral built environment.
Even in tourist destinations that are most likely to be altered -- if not destroyed entirely -- by climate change, there is very little action to bring the change dialogue beyond the "usual suspects" of political and advocacy forums to the venues that touch Americans in their working and leisurely pursuits.
A recent trip to China highlights just how important the country is for both the global economy and the global environment -- and how technologies and policies are equally important to balance the two.
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