A plan proposed by China's state council allows office workers to wear T-shirts to work as opposed to the standard coat and tie in order to keep them cooler and reduce the need to crank the air conditioning. Air conditioning, according to the China Daily, accounts for 30 to 50 percent of energy output in office buildings, so reducing it's usage could actually help cut back carbon emissions. Frankly, I think they just need to take it all the way and bring nudity into the workplace. Similar plans have been put into action in Japan.
Read more about that here- http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488739,00.html
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