• Everywhere there are mirrors, reflecting them, reflecting Michael and the other guy, reflecting the bounty and the grandeur of it all potted green plants with white lights, garlands, a cone of poinsettia and even, on a pedestal between the elevator banks, an elaborately carved stone urn containing what?

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  • We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.

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  • They've never seen the outside world or been in the green world of plants and trees and vines.

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  • The dye acts like chlorophyll, the pigment that makes plants green and that is responsible for absorbing sunlight and liberating electrons.

    ECONOMIST: Improved devices may make better use of sunlight

  • At least the plants are green, and there is some hope for them if there is rain soon.

    BBC: US crops tell story of future world food prices

  • Anti-nuclear sentiment was so strong in Germany at the end of the 1990s that the ruling socialist-green alliance banned new plants.

    ECONOMIST: Nuclear power

  • He then grew many successive generations to ensure the plant would "come true" always have yellow branches and not revert to green, as some yellow plants do.

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  • The estate is surrounded by lush green gardens full of native Mexican plants, geese and peacocks.

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  • There are also plans to "green" the city with more plants and trees.

    BBC: Olympic Games bid offensive launched by Tokyo 2020 team

  • Today the water-filled terraces reflect the sky from November through April, and turn green in spring as the rice plants grow tall.

    WSJ: Only in...Yunnan

  • During the three-hour climb up rocky switchbacks to the pass, we stomp through several steep spots blanketed in knee-deep snow and ice. (You really feel those 30 pounds shifting around on your back as you try to maintain your balance.) We're forced to detour around one switchback and shimmy up a slick, steep incline of green brush, holding on to plants for leverage--and praying for solid foot positions.

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  • There are fictional aliens that resemble little green men, mollusks, insects, plants, and minerals.

    NEWYORKER: The Cosmic Menagerie

  • But Yoshino Shigeo takes scant pleasure in his green rice fields and neat rows of tomato plants.

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  • Plants only cool the air if they stay green, which means capturing heavy winter downpours instead of letting them just flood the drains.

    BBC: Time to leave the comfort zone

  • You can still have the green, but using other types of ground covers and plants could create a much more interesting look and use less water.

    CNN: X-rated yards save the environment

  • In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.

    FORBES: Russia Hopes To Go Nuclear In The UK

  • Besides the Georgetown Toyota plant, Kentucky has two Ford plants in Louisville and a GM plant in Bowling Green where the Corvette is made.

    WSJ: Toyota to produce luxury Lexus model at Ky. plant

  • Once the bane of environmentalists, the nuclear industry enjoyed newfound "green" credentials as a cleaner alternative to coal-fired plants that belch greenhouse gases to produce electricity.

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  • Healthy Arabica plants grow 10-12 feet tall and have dark-green leaves, white flowers and red or purple beans.

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  • As such, Obama is expected to continue his facilitation of green technologies while clamping down on those older, less efficient coal-fired plants.

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  • They provide a "green backdrop" to the story of charismatic animals at risk and yet without plants, those animals would be at even greater risk of extinction.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And although obliging a few hundred coal plants to scrub themselves clean may well be useful, many other green issues such as biodiversity, resource depletion, smog and suburbanisation result from countless free actions by firms or individuals, and so are less open to correction from the state.

    ECONOMIST: Green plus red-tape makes brown

  • Others note that Mr Bush's speech also repeated his support for un-green measures such as his Clear Skies Initiative, a bill to regulate emissions from power plants that excludes carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global warming), and his energy bill, which strongly boosts coal and nuclear power and proposes opening up protected areas of Alaska to oil-drilling.

    ECONOMIST: Clean energy

  • They may well agree to allow nuclear plants to continue operating beyond 2022, the deadline set by an earlier SPD-Green government.

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  • Warmer conditions on the tundra trigger a cascade of change, including converting its lush but short green carpet into a taller shag, since warmer soils and deeper thaw enable taller, woody plants to grow and thrive on the tundra.

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  • The country's Green Party, now coalition partners of Socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schrder, are demanding that Germany decommission its nuclear plants within seven years.

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  • In other green tech news, Spanish researchers have developed a new type of biological concrete that makes it easier to attach plants to the side of buildings to create living walls.

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  • It has been forging a close alliance with the green-minded Centre Party witness a decision in February to start shutting down Sweden's nuclear power plants, which provide half the country's electricity.

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