There is also a budding green industry and plenty of enterprising people trying to get in on.
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Programs like GreenCare for Troops, which connects local green industry professionals with military families to provide free lawn and landscaping services while their loved ones are serving our country.
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And most recently President Obama has demonstrated his commitment to the Green Building industry when he issued in October 2009 Executive Order 13514, which requires Federal agencies to move to green building practices.
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In many countries, the green roof industry is vulnerable to non-acceptance and a lack of understanding.
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So the green roof industry continues to grow -- but there's a feeling that government support could be better.
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"The more you can take public transportation, the better off the environment is, " said Amy Spatrisano, president of the Green Meeting Industry Council.
Dusty Gedge, co-founder of Livingroof.org, a UK Web site promoting the green roof industry, believes it is the government's responsibility to help the industry grow.
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Despite this lack of support, the green roof industry is growing.
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The eruption of bipartisan ire over the failed financial bailout bill Monday cast doubt over the green energy industry that Congress would be able to pass anything until after next year's presidential inauguration.
Obama has been focused on providing subsidies to solar power in a manner that does not seem to work and at the same time Republicans have been more focused on fighting Obama than helping the green energy industry in America.
Not only are the costs of doing nothing astronomical in terms of coastal flooding, damaged agriculture, and new weather patterns, but the benefits of taking action will help create thousands of green jobs and an entirely new green energy industry.
Long before he became the bleeding edge of the green building industry, David Borchardt, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Rockville, MD-based Tower Companies, earned his spurs cleaning up many of the most polluted Cold War weapons sites in the United States.
Regardless of your stance on LEED bashing or the efficacy of the LEED rating system, I would venture to guess that some would agree with my statement that looking at the LEED rating system with a more critical eye is beneficial to the green building industry as a whole.
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European industry felt too much was being asked of it, while green groups thought industry had gained rather too many concessions.
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"I would say a good 95% of (shipping industry green initiatives) is incentivized or is driven by international regulations, " he said.
Instead, the conversation often felt a bit like the conversations that sometimes occur in the green-energy industry, where big investments are treated as a success in and of themselves even in the absence of actual traction in the marketplace and the creation of real change.
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In the less-mature green chemicals and biofuels industry, Milroy not only wants to own a piece of this incredible growth potential, he wants to lead it.
So that's pharmaceuticals, green technology, the media industry but maybe also road provision, banks, supermarkets.
Over the last three years I have raised the initial funds I needed and more and have grown my site into the leading green brand in the wedding industry.
For example, a number of companies provide tailored advice for individuals about how to save money on their electricity bills based on their own energy usage data, which is made available through the Administration-catalyzed, industry-led Green Button initiative.
But Rio Tinto said the industry was already making huge strides in adopting the green mantle, setting up a three year research programme into industry practices, a project which culminated in a conference in Toronto in May.
Once the bane of environmentalists, the nuclear industry enjoyed newfound "green" credentials as a cleaner alternative to coal-fired plants that belch greenhouse gases to produce electricity.
Mr Leggett knows both sides of the street: a geologist by training, he made a fortune as a consultant to the oil industry before he got green religion.
Algae is one of the great green hopes for creating a biofuels industry that can reach the scale necessary to bring down costs and compete against fossil fuels.
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"Panasonic has publically stated its goal to be the number one green innovation company in the electronics industry by 2018, which will mark Panasonic's 100th anniversary, " noted Jim Doyle, president of Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company.
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With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.
On 29 February 2012 during Wales Office questions Mr Llwyd said that green technology was a "key industry" in Wales and that businesses would be deterred from investing if "Whitehall can remove funding with the flick of the pen".
The event offered members of the media the opportunity to examine the installation, meet key Infineon Raceway and Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company executives, and learn more about Panasonic's plan to become the number one green innovation leader in the electronics industry by 2018 and Infineon's goal of becoming one of the most energy-efficient raceways in the world.
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Developers say the changes are needed to boost the industry but opponents fear that green spaces will be lost forever.
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