Environmental Technologies segment sales are expected to be even to down slightly from the previous quarter.
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However, weakening global economic conditions worked against our sales results in Telecommunications and Environmental Technologies.
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New technologies developed by a UK-based company Symphony Environmental Technologies are, they say, making plastics far more eco-friendly.
Of the 1, 300 patents filed last year by GM, more than half of them were for advanced environmental technologies.
Environmental Technologies segment sales are expected to decline between 5% and 10% in the fourth quarter, due to typical seasonal slowdown.
For environmental technologies, the company sees a year-over-year decline in Q1, but for the full year, the company sees growth in the worldwide auto and heavy-duty diesel truck markets.
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Environmental technologies segment sales projected flat to down slightly.
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The GreenTech 21st Century Master Fund focused on companies engaged in alternative energy, clean technologies, environmental infrastructure and services, agricultural and natural resources.
The logical implication of this cost-benefit calculus is that solar energy should receive considerably less support from environmental advocates than more mundane technologies like combined heat-and-power or district energy.
It comes at a time when increasing numbers of Americans and American businesses are recognizing the need to accelerate clean energy technologies for economic and environmental gains.
What does it take for a firm to move beyond the business case in the environmental area, to adopt new technologies or modes of production that are higher cost but environmentally friendly?
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It further expands GE's solutions portfolio for unconventional resources, consisting of more than 40 technologies that are addressing fundamental industry challenges, helping customers and the industry improve operational performance, reduce their environmental footprint and increase resource recovery while creating innovative technologies to drive demand for natural gas.
Environmental protection, economics, and innovative technologies for the wise use of natural resources.
Even better, then, that on both cost and environmental grounds, neo-conventional energy technologies, especially of the natural gas variety, are showing remarkable trends.
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As with all of Panasonic's products, environmental stewardship and specific energy- reducing technologies are brought into the 2013 line of Blu-ray Players to give the consumer the best at-home viewing experience without sacrificing performance.
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The project results can also be used in land use planning, in establishing priorities in remediation activities, in the selection of the best available remediation technologies and in mitigation of environmental dangers in contaminated regions.
Similarly, trying to contain the oil and limit the environmental impact is also complex, involving multiple technologies, the coordination of public agencies and private sector firms, and the mobilization of huge amounts of equipment and people.
"What you were saying about information technologies, what you were saying about environmental issues back then, now retrospectively really do make you look like a prophet, " Markey said.
Insofar as renewables have desirable environmental attributes (and some notably corn-based ethanol may not), the preferable approach is to price these attributes and let the market choose the technologies that produce the best balance between environmental and non-environmental considerations.
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We agreed to reduce tariffs on environmental goods and make it easier to export clean energy technologies that create green jobs.
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The project is currently seeking a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program Office, which supports accelerated commercial use of innovative energy technologies to help sustain economic growth, yield environmental benefits, and produce a more stable and secure energy supply.
"The building will be especially careful about sustainability using all the techniques, technologies and materials and method of construction to reach environmental sustainability, " she said.
If governments want to see a blossoming of clean technology, therefore, they should use taxes to put a price on environmental externalities (such as carbon) rather than coddle pet technologies.
When Clinton tapped him as his running mate in July 1992, Gore brought some impressive experience to the table, including service in the House and Senate, serious environmental credentials and expertise in science, space policy and emerging communication technologies.
At the same time, any combined entity would be better positioned to invest in new technologies so that it could comply with tougher federal and state environmental regs.
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As dominant lending countries, the developed world needs to promote power technologies that may have a higher initial investment but greater economic and environmental benefits over the long term.
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If we try to pursue the same ends in the same ways we always have, but with marginally more efficient technologies, we will never satisfactorily resolve the conflict between energy needs and environmental concerns.
The system would use satellite communications, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies to produce millions of sushi-quality fish from each pen with no adverse environmental impacts.
Many environmental groups, of course, see the shale gas boom unleashed by hydrofracking and horizontal drilling technologies as more a curse than a blessing, producing contaminated water supplies and air pollution while scaring local landscapes.
Science needs to renew its contract with society, enhancing collaboration between scientists, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge, solutions and technologies that are needed to build the future green societies in a time of rapid environmental and social change.
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