With other liquor companies that load the landfills and dump waste into the seas that surround the Caribbean, it is nice to know that there are efforts being made to keep our fragile earth clean.
When all on earth need is Clean Air and Water, and Clean Cities.
When vetting companies for our portfolios, our seven-member investment committees look closely at their eco-credentials: hunting for positives (such as recycling programs, clean energy initiatives, an earth-friendly product line) and screening for negatives (toxic emissions, hazardous waste liabilities, harmful community impact).
Asian tech hubs are full of scientists and engineers busily working on the next breakthrough be that the long-hoped for cure for cancer or a clean tech discovery to save the earth.
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Known for her use of muted earth tones and the clean, almost architectural lines of her swimwear, Niemeyer sells some 350, 000 pieces a year, mostly at her 26 boutiques throughout the country, but also at multi-mark shops in Britain, France, the Bahamas and in 23 U.S. states.
But on Tuesday, the X Prize Foundation awarded more a million dollars for a more down-to-earth innovation: technology to clean up oil spills.
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The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
We can have jobs providing safe, clean, renewable energy that does destroy the earth, the waters, and the air that we breathe.
It has even embraced environmentalism, supporting events like Earth day by sending out its unwanted troops to clean up litter and so on.
Edwin Lau, director of Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong, said the move to clean up Hong Kong's energy-hungry buildings was long overdue.
Just the same as the Forest Trees that clean the air and make Oxygen we breath and all living on earth need to Live.
Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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As the clean-up and recovery consumes what stock is in place for earth movers, road graders and other heavy equipment for construction and infrastructure is put to work, the long lead-time required to build and deliver these machines may be a boon for companies like Caterpillar and its partners.
The groups are Friends of the Earth, the Aviation Environment Federation, the National Society for Clean Air, and the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise.
"The text of the Clean Air Act makes plain that Congress intended it as a measure to 'clean' the air of pollutants, not to alter the overall composition of the Earth's atmosphere, " argues the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an auto industry lobbying group, in a brief.
On earth, a magnetically confined plasma is what nuclear-fusion researchers wrestle with in their search for a clean source of energy.
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