China's Green Awakening The Washington Post reports that China is making an aggressive effort to try to deal with its environmental crises.

Elizabeth Economy, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future," said this time "the commitment, the profile, the energy behind the state's environmental protection efforts far exceeds anything we've seen in China's history.

There are lots of challenges here—the damage already done, the tension between economic growth and environmentalism, corruption, and more—but certainly this is a good sign.

Now if we could only get the American president with the program.....  ¶ 8:44 AM