The deal will benefit Green Mountain in a couple of ways.
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Many of those homes are going to be older and in need of an environmental or green retrofit that could benefit the sustainable products industry.
Zero emissions and some green credentials are clearly a benefit but the drivers I spoke to were mainly interested in the day to day cost savings.
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.
That said, there is a value to Big Oil in doing something green, even if the biggest benefit is being able to deflect flack from environmentalists.
But the London-based watchdog said it now accepted there was sufficient benefit to justify a green light for the worst-affected patients, on condition that those receiving the one-off therapy continued to be followed.
And that would be a pity, for the world would benefit from having a thoughtful green movement.
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Housing Minister, Deputy Andrew Green, said about 100 people could benefit and would borrow 15% of their deposit on an interest free basis from the States.
The benefit to a building owner is that a green building can have lower costs and there are many studies that show an improvement in building occupant productivity.
But the problem with greenwashing goes well beyond the greenwasher and the greenwashed end user where the consumer fails to receive the benefit of the bargain by not getting the green product or service they expected.
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Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur's amendment, which said the UK Government's plans for a Green Investment Bank to fund low-carbon transport and energy schemes would benefit Scotland's efforts to build a low-carbon economy, was passed without opposition with 75 MSPs voting for it and with 46 MSPs abstaining.
Green jobs, just like any other jobs, are a cost of doing something, not a benefit of having something done.
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