Now change manufacturing incentives (Score 1)

tldr: green manufacturing needs to be 10x cheaper than status quo to get businesses to change.

The consumer "green" movement didn't really ramp up until a combination of technological advances (for example, making CFLs not suck) and convenient market distortions (in the form of government incentives, tax credits, grants, etc.) combined to make it stupid to not "go green" with your consumer purchases. While some manufacturers have embraced the idea of environmentally-friendly manufacturing (for example, if you believe Subaru's marketing), there are not sufficient market distortions in place to make a business want to spend the capital necessary to retool manufacturing lines.

I think the fact that there is a lot of technology being manufactured in China is actually beneficial. China has the ability to force their industry to make certain changes, and they have recently started to adopt policies that are designed to make their industrial base more sustainable.