Since the campaign was launched, Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, in collaboration with the NGO coalition, has traded emails and letters with companies such as Samsung, HP, Panasonic, Intel, Nokia, BT, Motorola, Vodafone and IBM.

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GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.

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It is a future where we must strengthen our collaboration on critical environmental issues: cleaning up our air, land and water, fighting for environmental justice to relieve the burdens of pollution in poor and minority communities, protecting the planet we all call home and safeguarding the creation that has been given to us to steward.

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The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has long-established links with the country including the China Bridge Project, which is aimed at tackling environmental issues like global food security as well as a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the environmental sciences.

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But they also discussed broader collaboration in the future, including matching their countries' environmental rules.

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Elaboration of concepts relevant to enhanced understanding of ethical issues relating to development (including in particular societal, environmental and technological challenges), in conjunction with the working groups of COMEST and in collaboration with CIPSH, ISSC and other relevant partners.

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Intel also believes in the power of collaboration to power the green movement: The company announced its own open-source environmental project at the Intel Developer Forum last week.

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Uzbekistan is in ongoing collaboration with the UN in addressing the challenges that threaten peace and stability, prevention of environmental problems, issues of socio-economic development.

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We find this works best when environmental studies are combined with emotional and social intelligence, to help kids bring skills like motivation, teamwork and collaboration to bear on understanding our ecological predicaments and finding workable solutions.

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