They might also cover the start-up costs of suppliers, lowering prices of green-building expertise and materials.
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The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, now the Northern Line, brought an 800% rise in land prices at Golders Green, Mr Harrison-Putnam said.
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Mr Stowe said the council had committed to not increasing charges for car parking, green waste collections, or leisure and museum prices, for at least another three years.
The green shoots for them are not the numbers suggesting prices may rise, but the opposite.
Higher milk prices mean customers are paying more at Amy Green's ice cream shop in downtown Lincoln, Neb.
Their opposition to global climate change agreements keeps the prices of their energy exports low against "green" competitors such as wind and solar, reducing economic incentives to conserve, especially when subsidies are taken into account.
Next to the bank's entrance there is a small store where people can use their green bills to buy food or cleaning materials at very low prices.
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Older, second-generation applications where prices for the finished goods already are falling anyway the green-tech equivalent of a mid-range t-shirt.
But doubts about the green credentials of biofuel use, and the knock-on effects on food prices, have caused investors to become disillusioned.
Several companies with exposure to commodity prices, particularly food, are vulnerable, as Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee, and have warned of rising cost pressures.
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While Silicon Valley companies were working on the problem, silicon prices fell and Chinese companies like JA Solar, Suntech and Yingli Green Energy rapidly expanded production of conventional solar panels, supported by tens of billions of dollars in inexpensive credit from the Chinese government as well as other subsidies like cheap land.
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If the economy is good with low energy prices, on the other hand, there is diminished demand for going green.
Already this week, both JA Solar and Yingli Green Energy reduced their outlook for full year shipments after posting discouraging Q2 results, as prices continue to fall in the face of slack demand.
The big reason, according to Bachman: Cheap panel prices offered by Asian manufacturers like Suntech Power, Sharp, Trina Solar, Yingli Green Energy and Kyocera Solar.
In the 19th century, the splendor of these private compounds rose along with the prices for henequen, a plant in the agave family used to produce twine and rope--"green gold" that made the plantations' owners fantastically wealthy.
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