IBISWorld indicates that the surge of new government regulations will galvanize green jobs in the fields of environmental preservation, sustainable building material manufacturing and remediation and environmental cleanup services industries.
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What's the environmental impact of building a new car and of manufacturing nickel metal hydride batteries that many hybrids use?
If you can do the same amount of work on fewer computers by having higher utilization, you save the environmental cost of building those computers.
While Khan's company Atria has big plans, it is in the minority in Hong Kong, not only in terms of the size of its property portfolio, but also in the attitude to incorporating environmental concerns in building projects.
Much of the pre-Seattle coalition building between environmental and citizens' groups, for instance, was done by e-mail.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon introduced the South Korean capital's ambitious environmental plans, including building a vast path of park land bisecting the capital.
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It's also likely Democratic leadership will reward Jeffords with the chairmanship of the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee, which handles environmental policy and the building of highways, dams and other public projects.
The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.
Factories paying for expedited building permits before environmental impact studies can be completed?
Two years of assessment have already been completed to understand the physical, environmental and engineering constraints of building out in the Irish Sea.
He and the other protesters hadn't taken much of an interest in environmental issues until Lynas began building its plant at the Gebeng industrial estate near Kuantan.
The costly project remains in limbo because Norte Energia has been unable to tap the financing it needs to meet all 40 environmental prerequisities before it starts building the dam.
Environmental campaigners say the runway-building would be unnecessary if the government scrapped the industry's tax breaks.
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The buyout barons held themselves out to be environmental saviors by magnanimously cutting the building plans back to 3.
Academics and NGO representatives who oppose the dam-building on social or environmental grounds do not want their names published.
Kurita Water Industries, one of Japan's leading environmental-engineering firms, started building its soil remediation skills over a decade ago.
As well as proving the financial viability of its plans, Hafren Power also has to convince environmental groups of the merits of building such a large structure in the Severn Estuary.
Strict environmental laws cause long delays in building homes.
Nichols said cleanup crews will do environmental sampling in every office before the building will be reoccupied.
At the Sabah Al-Ahmad nature reserve, environmental remediation has involved planting trees and building ponds to bring back wildlife, resulting in a flourishing desert ecosystem.
Things may come to a head in November with a ballot initiative, put forward by the Sierra Club, an environmental group, to ban any new building in a ring around the city.
The current environmental crisis poses new challenges to the building and construction industry, in areas where engineering can provide innovative alternatives such as energy-neutral housing and energy efficiency, construction materials and practices, recycling and reuse of materials.
Theodore Beckles, a 19-year-old student at Independence High School, was fatally stabbed in September in a fight with a student from the High School for Environmental Studies, which shares the same building as Mr. Beckles's school on West 56th Street.
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Hydropower is about 3 percent, and building more dams would also have environmental effects.
This patchwork, plus changing environmental regulation, explains why so many utilities have avoided building new plants for years.
About 46 Kohl's stores are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified, and about 20 percent of building materials in new stores are made from recycled elements.
But planning policy will always involve the balancing of economic and environmental considerations, and ministers are right to say that building on flood-plains cannot be avoided altogether.
The ideals and principles behind sustainability include broad concepts such as intergenerational equity, gender equity, social tolerance, poverty alleviation, environmental preservation and restoration, natural resource conservation, and building just and peaceful societies.
This high profile means that sports organizations operate on a different calculus than, say, a bank, a government office, or an apartment building when it comes to choosing how to lighten environmental footprint.
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