"Apple is... guilty of using 'green' as a marketing ploy, rather than making green a core part of their business practices, " said Stephen Stokes, vice president of business and climate change at AMR Research Inc.

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When California briefly mandated the sale of electric vehicles in the early 1990s, their 50-mile range and long charging cycles meant that they failed to attract more than a dedicated core of green-minded motorists.

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Lynch has his sights set on three core pillars for NASCAR Green: Waste, Emission, and Power Generation.

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This is a major sore spot for China because it views green tech as one of its core and most innovative developing markets.

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Green recognized that the retailer had strayed from its core demographic of low- and middle-income families looking for quality basics at a low price.

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Cox stumbled across the idea at his previous company, Green Foam Blanks, which makes surfboard blanks (the foam core of a surfboard) from recycled polyurethane waste.

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This is not to say that Austin itself--that is, its urban core area--does not try to trot out its blue, and "green, " trimmings.

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Press the green button with the little flag and you'll be propelled into a world of expensive sophisticated dual core processors, pricey aluminum enclosures with vacuum fluorescent displays, redundant functionality and slowly evolving integration with digital cable and satellite.

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The notable internal hardware consists of an ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe motherboard at its heart, a 2GB EVGA GeForce GTX 680, a 3rd generation Intel Core i7 clocked at 3.50GHz, and 8GB of Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM (with hypnotic green LEDs).

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