The first option is to move from purchasing products with a large water footprint to an alternative product with a smaller water footprint.
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But I do find it at least a little odd that Google is indeed financing an alternative to its own product, Android.
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The pair already knew dozens of owners who would pay for a more sustainable alternative to the traditional product they were using. (Keen to avoid alerting potential competitors, the pair asked me to not be overly specific about their product.) Now they are buying additional machinery and renting more warehouse space to keep up with demand.
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Mr Geithner has suggested deficit or surplus targets of less than 4% of gross domestic product as an alternative to pressing China to allow its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate faster.
But for a true alternative to the Flip, two product lines really stand out.
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It may make you or your idea or product the most attractive alternative.
Whether viewers will accept alternative types of advertising, like product-placement, is open to question as is whether they will continue to gobble up low-cost reality TV.
Consumers should evaluate every financial product, traditional or alternative, carefully.
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The asset management business earns money by offering customers a wide range of investment products so that customers can invest their money in the market (equity, fixed income, alternative investment etc.) and product that best matches their investment goals.
With rather less scientific evidence, a capsaicin product is marketed as an alternative to Botox, a wrinkle-smoothing cosmetic treatment.
We are trying to create a reasonable alternative to the standard emerging market mutual fund product.
They have to sell themselves, more than their product, to close on every alternative source of funding.
The survey is in an effort to produce an alternative measure of national performance to Gross Domestic Product.
Some consumer groups are too quick to assume the only safe alternative to a problem is to ban a product, and they are not receptive to any innovative fix a manufacturer may develop.
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While Apple has said it would not develop its own search engine, having an alternative to Google that is not a Microsoft product and could be used on its iOS devices and Mac products could be a nice substitute.
In Europe, for example, we have increased our product offerings and provided more access to alternative payment mechanisms to our customers.
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Good Guide , for example, allows smart phones to scan your bar code and immediately rank your product and potentially suggest a more sustainable alternative on the next shelf.
Axona contains FDA-approved food additives and a special formulation of a fat called caprylic triglyceride, which Accera says provides the brain an alternative energy source to glucose called ketones after the product is metabolized by the liver.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has called upon Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen in his quest to find an alternative to the widely-used metrics of gross domestic product and gross national product.
China wants to become a leader in alternative sources of energy, both as an end user and product developer.
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Microsoft has been playing catch-up with this product and trying to position it as a better alternative to Salesforce.com, its archrival in this space.
's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).
Speaking on Monday, he said he was also "sceptical" of alternative monetary policy targets to price stability, such as gross domestic product targeting, since any, even temporary, loosening of inflation expectations would "poison" central bank credibility.
Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues.
Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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Great idea, that works well, they are a potential alternative to PCs, and some tablet applications, but Google has not invested to make the product commercially viable.
Shuji Minami -- the product business group's general manager -- is suggesting that increased production by alternative manufacturers will open up the currently tight supply line.
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Paypal started using the service in March when it launched Here - a product allowing businesses to accept customers' credit-card payments via smartphones as an alternative to installing a cash-register system.
He said that from Saturday if a product tested positive and was withdrawn from sale, Tesco would provide customers with a "better alternative" for the same cost.
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