Other green initiatives included promoting fuel-efficient vehicles, rail transport, electricity grid improvements, and pollution control.
An apocalypse-themed game that comes with an upbeat comic book urging green initiatives was similarly dismissed as preachy.
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Like an internal employee social network loaded with volunteer opportunities and green initiatives, volunteer management tools and analytics.
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Green initiatives pushed by liberal environmentalists risk putting union members out of work.
Yet environmentalists point out that Canada is now paying for its own foot-dragging at the federal level on green initiatives.
"I would say a good 95% of (shipping industry green initiatives) is incentivized or is driven by international regulations, " he said.
But green initiatives aren't just found on blueprints for new cities.
Still, not all of Livingstone's green initiatives have been warmly received.
Mainelli also has founded London Accord which solicits reports from investment banks, academics and others on subjects such as green initiatives, water, suitable investing and sustainability.
In conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), these agencies are using the month of April to focus on how Green Initiatives can be implemented in the workplace.
They hit the ground on green modes of transport to take on the Green City Challenge, picking up the best of green initiatives in a city heaving with mechanical and human traffic.
Not surprisingly, many of the greenest schools are in the Northeast and West, where there's a long history of environmentalism, and they're often private colleges with sizable endowments that can be directed toward green initiatives.
Many states have green initiatives too.
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The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.
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Solar companies like First Solar (FSLR) would be affected by a slowdown in green energy initiatives.
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Spread over nine equally-weighted categories, the scorecard rates colleges on factors like sustainable policies by administration, commitment to energy efficiency and conservation, food and recycling policies, campus-wide green building initiatives, student involvement, alternative transportation.
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The right loves to hand out tax credits that encourage procreation and marriage, while the left looks for opportunities to deduct "green" initiatives alongside the deduction of taxes paid to city and state (remember, blue states such as California and New York are among the most taxed).
Whether or not cap and trade becomes law, green and sustainability initiatives are underway in virtually every company.
That, in fact, most current green companies and initiatives are antithetical to the Silicon Valley attitude: they are born beholden to the government or non-profit foundations, they place political goals and utopian visions before pragmatic solutions, they mostly focus on incremental improvements over free-swinging innovation and category creation, and most will never, ever, be profitable.
Participants in the conference include stakeholders, representatives of UN-Water members and partners, representatives and experts of the UN Global Sustainability Panel, members of UNSGAB, representatives of UNDESA, representatives of the success stories and initiatives in water and green economy.
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But as the trucks keep rolling in, so Carter keeps on rolling out initiatives and championing the expansion of green space.
Despite all the initiatives and proposals mentioned in the green paper, the best hope for the government and its key workers is that the current housing boom in the south will cool off.
Cities like Seattle are joining with others around the world and taking on goals for green development, while states like Colorado are passing bond initiatives for transit and new requirements for clean energy.
The book also highlights new initiatives and alliances such as the, the Green Development Initiative which aims to establish an area-based certified biodiversity unit, the ISEAL Alliance which is exploring the biodiversity dimensions of environmental and social certification schemes, the Malua BioBank in Malaysia, and Mission Markets which has established an e-platform for biodiversity deals.
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He was honoured with the Green World Award at the Midem music conference for the festival's history of environmental fundraising and ecological initiatives.
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