The partnerships went by such names as GRP2, Green Earth Land General Partnership and CH4 Florida.
Their game, Crop Master: Protector of the Green Earth, is a series of eco-inspired mini games which include dropping massive corks into polluting chimneys and having to click the mouse fast enough to spin a wind turbine.
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"I have all kinds of credits all over God's green earth, but I'm using this to finish it all off, " said the 41-year-old computer consultant, who has an associate degree in information technology but never finished his bachelor's in psychology.
Friends of the Earth, another green group, takes a similar line (although disaffected ex-members have come together in Friends of Hartlepool).
Friends of the Earth said "a green light for shale gas would be a costly mistake for our country and countryside".
Earth Biofuels, the Dallas green-energy firm he founded with the help of A-listers like Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and Julia Roberts, has been hit with an involuntary bankruptcy petition in Delaware.
Barclays Capital has been saying the Chinese economy would bottom in the second quarter, and as China heads into the third quarter this week, Barclays says it sees some green shoots sprouting up in the cracked earth.
Earth isn't the only green-energy company bringing woe to its investors.
If an entrepreneur comes to us with an earth-shattering idea in pharma or green energy, they will receive our awe and admiration, but not our check.
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One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
Within that green box is a microplate reader, a workhorse appliance in labs on Earth but the first of its kind to work in the near-zero gravity at 250 miles up.
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Under a blazing sun, the earth was baked dry, and the GM wheat, a pale green, twitched and fluttered in the breeze.
This Friday ( February 27th, 2009 ), you can join "innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and eco-designers" in New York City to explore some of those solutions, take a look at green gadgetry, and hear from a handful of speakers on the cutting edge of Earth-friendly electronics.
And this Navy fighter jet -- appropriately called the Green Hornet -- will be flown for the first time in just a few days, on Earth Day.
In keeping with Earth Hour's initiative, the quadrocopters will utilize batteries that were charged in Austria using green energy from the Austrian renewable energy grid specifically for this event.
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For an unforgettable experience, take a night walk to the arched cave and waterfall at Natural Bridge under the western ramparts of the Springbrook plateau, which is alight with fairy-like blue-green lights given off by the millions of bioluminescent glow worms that line the cave roof and the steep earth banks along the rainforest path.
Chris Crean, from environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth, said it was important that full analysis work be done to see if HS2 would be a green form of transport.
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