It keeps our country, and the world, from moving forward into a safer, more environmentally sustainable future.
For instance, if you want to invest in an environmentally sustainable manner, does that include nuclear power?
Trigg, who plans small gatherings as well as big blowouts, finds ways to make her events environmentally sustainable.
Dow Chemical is helping the Olympic organizers produce a fabric stadium wrap under environmentally sustainable conditions, the spokesman said.
We must ensure that farming is maintained as an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable way of life for future generations.
We welcomed further U.S. support for ASEAN's Environmentally Sustainable Cities (ESC) initiative and ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity.
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"That way our numbers can be allowed to stabilise and reduce gradually to a lower, environmentally sustainable level, " the organisation says.
Our new urban agenda will focus on making regions and urban areas more economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, and expand opportunity for everyone.
The friend planned to sell a new environmentally sustainable product to U.S. horse owners that was already popular among owners in Europe and Japan.
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Second, we'll focus on creating more livable and environmentally sustainable communities.
Thomas Vecchione, a principal with the company, was on hand to explain the process of converting the terminal into a modern, comfortable, efficient, environmentally sustainable facility.
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Swartz is coming from a radically different place in the universe of corporate America: Timberland is known for emphasizing policies on socially and environmentally sustainable consumption and production.
Such scores are important because they provide transparency to government and consumers into just how environmentally sustainable specific products are and lay out a choice between one company's technology and another's.
It combines natural and social sciences, economics and education to improve human livelihoods and safeguard natural ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches to economic development that is socially and culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable.
As long as a proper cap is in place that creates a value for environmental scarcity, carbon trading can be very effective in redirecting investments towards lower-carbon activities and in making human behavior more environmentally sustainable.
Its potential to add value is obvious from the occasional successes described in the review: Early lurid designs for the new David Evans store in Swansea were transformed by its advice into something more elegant and environmentally sustainable.
And though the aim is to help communities develop environmentally sustainable economies, there are plenty of cases where conservation interests, such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (now a big landowner), have clashed with locals who have different ideas about sustainable development.
Our strategy to build economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, opportunity-rich communities that serve as the backbone for our long-term growth and prosperity -- three items: First, we'll build strong regional backbones for our economy by coordinating federal investments in economic and workforce development -- because today's metropolitan areas don't stop at downtown.
Fisk's mission is to develop environmentally-sustainable building materials and to fundamentally change the way we build our communities, like homes and office buildings.
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The Danish Architecture Centre on the waterfront in the Christianshavn area focuses on design for the built environment and offers guided tours of changing exhibitions, with an emphasis on environmentally-sustainable architecture.
"You can't have sustainable cities that are only environmentally and economically sustainable, " says Richard Stren of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.
Then, often contradicting over 100 years of tradition, they train them in environmentally sensitive, sustainable farming techniques.
As a policy, DiNapoli has historically pushed companies in which the fund invests to adopt environmentally sound and sustainable practices.
This is a sustainable, environmentally friendly product concept that has direct educational effects.
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The fact is that in a world of increasing scarcity of fossil fuels, organic farming provides the only environmentally, or economically, sustainable system for feeding the world.
Costa Rica's Sustainable Tourism Program rewards environmentally friendly properties with one to five "leaves" and copious free publicity.
Which means this technology takes us several steps farther along the path of creating sustainable, scalable and environmentally friendly energy production.
Kim Jordan, who co-founded the New Belgium Brewing Co. with her husband in 1991, says employee ownership ensures that the company's values and culture will remain intact including its commitment to sustainable farming and an environmentally friendly production process.
"The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities, " said Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director.
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Companies need guidance and specific tools to help them evolve into environmentally and socially responsible enterprises that contribute to the creation of a sustainable economy.
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