And so when Accenture's chief, Bill Green, called him one day in August 2006 to entice him into quitting Symantec to take a job at Accenture--maybe a post running India?
In addition to those cited in this report, the author is particularly grateful for the insights, many of them off the record, of Hal Sirkin, Nandan Nilekani, Alvaro Rodriguez Arragui, Bernard Charles, Joshua Ramo, Michelle Guthrie, Arjun Divecha, Len Blavatnik, Viktor Vekselberg, Malvinder Singh, Bill Ford, Michael Green, Lord John Browne, John Studzinski, Bill Rhodes, Diana Farrell, Mikhail Fridman, Graham Mackey, Thor Bjorgolfsson, Ram Charan, Nabil Habayeb, Diana Glassman, David Rubenstein, Eli Jacobs, Dambisa Moyo, Alastair Newton and Michael Patsalos Fox.
Houston's oil execs might not appreciate that much of the funding of the bailout bill's green energy provisions will come through raising taxes on oil and gas production.
Kelly contacted us to say that her family saved 70 percent on their bill, thanks to Green Button.
One item that's dropped off the agenda is the Report and Third Reading stages of the Energy Bill - the "green deal" which will allow people to fund energy saving home improvements from the savings to their gas and electricity bills.
The bill, now called the Green Jobs Act, provided targeted funds for low-income trainees.
This is the bill to create the UK Green Investment Bank, reshape employment law and replace the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading with a new Competition and Markets Authority.
As Congress wrangles over details of a bill, the president went to Green Bay, Wisconsin today.
The eruption of bipartisan ire over the failed financial bailout bill Monday cast doubt over the green energy industry that Congress would be able to pass anything until after next year's presidential inauguration.
The budget bill also includes money to investigate whether green charities are engaging in political activities incompatible with their status.
The bill also removes the dedicated funding for green infrastructure, water efficiency, and environmentally innovative projects that communities used to implement forward-thinking water management solutions that protect clean water and save them money.
The bill would release up to 55, 000 green cards for immigrants completing post-graduate degrees in a STEM field at U.S. research universities.
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Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the bill was a "worthwhile starting point" but warned there were still too many loopholes and too much vague language.
Title XVII of that bill created a program of government guaranteed loans for green energy businesses.
The Welsh government has published a green paper asking whether a Public Health Bill is needed.
And there's the infamous duo of fugitive commodities traders Marc Rich and Pincus Green, who were pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.
Sustainable designer Bill McDonough told the audience of his plans for green cities in China, and Alex Steffen showed flowers that bloom red petals if they are growing above mines.
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The letter is signed by a host of high profile artists from across the musical spectrum: Katie Perry, Sheryl Crow, Rihanna, Pink Floyd, Blondie, Bill Joel, Amy Grant, Megadeth, CeeLo Green, Ted Nugent and the Dead Kennedys.
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The community-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) invests 40 percent of the power bill paid by those using renewable energy into similar "green" projects.
Second in the batting order is the Green MP Caroline Lucas, whose Landlord Accreditation Bill would require local authorities to operate landlord accreditation schemes guaranteeing minimum standards for tenants.
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
The Startup Act 2.0 Bill, currently sidetracked by the 2012 election, would provide green cards to foreign nationals receiving advanced math and science degrees from U.S. colleges and universities and make it possible for entrepreneurs already in the U.S. to stay permanently.
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And like with gay marriage, it would also need a green light from Senate Majority Dean Skelos to bring the bill to the floor.
After that, peers continue with the report stage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - here there might be some votes on issues around the Green Investment Bank and on whistleblowers.
They did what comes naturally and wrote a bill that was all about transfer payments, temporary tax subsidies, green industrial policy, homeowner subsidies, 99 weeks of jobless benefits and all the rest.
There had been widespread concern about the speed with which the legislation is being scrutinised by the parliament and Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green MSPs all opposed the SNP plans to rush the bill through the Scottish Parliament.
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.
Shiona Baird, the Scottish Green Party's energy spokeswoman, is proposing a Holyrood bill to give householders and businesses council tax breaks and business rates rebates in return for installing renewable energy devices such as solar roofs and mini-wind turbines.
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Green Party leader Steven Agnew said he felt the grounds for the bill were "political" and he would not be supporting it.
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