President Obama, I'm not an environmentalist and I'm not a scientist, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong in the environment if it's October, and the weather is as it is. (Laughter.) I recently -- I'm a Louisiana native, and I recently moved back home from California, where there, it was a big push for going green and environmental policies.
The company says it was "green" before environmental sensitivity was a popular corporate theme.
Mittal has the government in his cross hairs, blaming regulators for not approving a project he needs an environmental green light on.
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It is hoped the research project, which is the first of its kind in Scotland, will help councils and leisure trusts plan future health programmes and facilities, including new outdoor spaces, "Green Gym" environmental programmes, and walking routes.
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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.
And major green groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have begun collaborating with industry leaders to educate the public about the various benefits of this fuel.
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In this role, Jones helped to lead the inter-agency process that oversaw the multi-billion dollar investment in skills training and jobs development within the environmental and green energy sectors.
The life science sectors in the United States are still robust, and cleantech--including clean energy, and environmental and green products and services--is providing an entirely new and promising channel for venture money.
And if you go to things like the Environmental Media Association, the PGA (they have a green committee), the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, Filmmakers for Conservation, all of these organizations are coming together trying to reduce the overall carbon footprint.
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Although regulation remains the most usual form of environmental policy, green taxes are gaining ground.
The rock stars of the green millennium can buy their environmental indulgences so they can gorge good conscience on their carbon-rich world of private jets and lush estates.
But the sparks of energy are also inspiring environmental consciousness, say green fitness enthusiasts.
The council has duly axed a snazzy Green Living Centre, which dispensed environmental advice.
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Or refer to your joint religion, or if he is into environmental protection, become green too (at least verbally).
The apparent difference between Apple's environmental record and its green rhetoric has prompted ire among some of its competition.
On the other hand, her party was proposing a genuine "green new deal" to put environmental industries at the heart of the economic recovery.
Her record on green issues has also impressed the environmental lobby.
IBISWorld indicates that the surge of new government regulations will galvanize green jobs in the fields of environmental preservation, sustainable building material manufacturing and remediation and environmental cleanup services industries.
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Awareness, understanding and recognition of this major problem will help us all contemplate behaviour and environmental change with unusually welcome green outcomes.
Brown suggested during the campaign that such policies would help create an estimated 500, 000 green jobs, but few outside the environmental lobby take this seriously.
As companies seek to win credibility for their efforts at reducing emissions, they are inviting mainstream green groups such as Washington's Environmental Defence Fund to advise them and to keep them honest.
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.
Carbon-emissions trading is becoming increasingly widespread within the industry, as is carbon off-setting, the latter involving passengers paying a voluntary surcharge to help finance the planting of trees or other green projects and so balance out the environmental damage caused by their journey.
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In a humiliating blow to the once proud, gas-guzzling Hummer SUV, engineers at GM have re-imagined the poster child for environmental apathy as a completely green vehicle that not only leaves a small "footprint" in its wake, but actually promises to give something back to nature as well.
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We brought on board a green adviser, who has a degree in environmental science, and he spearheaded the program and monitored the progress.
That has brought the concept friends who are not normally persuaded by environmental thinking, as well as green enemies who will brook no compromise.
His dashboard fuel gauge filled with images of intertwining green foliage, a symbolic representation of the environmental benefits we were apparently dispensing from the tailpipe as we aimlessly drove around.
For example, the the G2A2, an alliance of CEOs committed to addressing climate and environmental risks, will launch the Green Investment Report with precisely the goal of "unlocking finance for green growth".
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