Promoting pro-green stimulus plans is one way of allowing them to stake a claim to the rhetorical middle ground.
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Or as has been pointed out about the Green Party plans, if you really want to create jobs in producing electricity, why not pay people to ride bikes linked to a dynamo?
With the help of Vue brewers (which has a much higher price tag than K-cup brewers) and another espresso machine that Green Mountain plans to launch in late 2012 or early 2013, that figure could get a further boost.
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Planning consultants White Young Green have submitted plans for the current market site, said Powys Council.
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The housing minister Deputy Andrew Green said the plans represented the biggest change to social housing in Jersey's history.
Many of the nations that are putting their faith in strong de-carbonisation and green growth national plans - such as the Maldives, Costa Rica, Mexico, South Korea, Brazil, the EU and others - now need to make a common cause.
Back in March, a report by MPs said that the UK could lose out on hundreds of billions of pounds in green investment and fail to meet climate change targets if the government compromised on its plans for the green bank.
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Deputy Andrew Green will take his plans to the States for debate on 14 May.
The work is expected to start soon as Flintshire council gave the plans the green light in January.
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The European Parliament gave the green light to the plans during Tuesday's voting session in the European Parliament.
All he needed, he says, was a green light and detailed plans from Boulogne-Billancourt officials for the rest of the island.
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Sustainable designer Bill McDonough told the audience of his plans for green cities in China, and Alex Steffen showed flowers that bloom red petals if they are growing above mines.
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There are also plans to "green" the city with more plants and trees.
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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.
Residents were forced to shelve plans to use the green for a jubilee party.
Since the plans means building on green belt land, it will be referred to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
In the fall, the Princeton Review plans to include a green rating in its annual guide to colleges and universities.
The family, which doesn't know when or where recovery workers found Shenae's body, hasn't made funeral plans yet, Robert Green said.
But German Green MEP Rebecca Harms dismissed the plans as a "paper check" designed to "downplay the risks of nuclear power".
He said the planning system should produce homes and jobs, as well as protecting green spaces, but the new plans "may end up doing neither".
In September the government backed down on plans to turn Henley Green Primary School into an academy after the council sought a judicial review over the decision.
Instead, they would have preferred to see ministers - and the opposition parties - focus their attentions on the plans published in a green paper at the start of the summer.
Agencies are also evaluated on demonstrating continuous progress towards implementing additional statutory or Executive Order targets and goals reflected in their annual Sustainability Plans, such as green purchasing and electronics stewardship.
There had been widespread concern about the speed with which the legislation is being scrutinised by the parliament and Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green MSPs all opposed the SNP plans to rush the bill through the Scottish Parliament.
But nearby parish councils opposed the plans as an expansion into green belt land.
And among other recent announcements from stores on green issues, Tesco has said it plans to follow the Co-Op's lead by making its carrier bags biodegradable.
These and other green groups are also separately strongly opposing plans for almost 200 new road schemes in the countryside, which businesses say will help stimulate the economy.
In other green energy news, Nicaragua announced plans to produce 94 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2017 and South America's first solar thermal plant recently opened in Antofagasta, Chile.
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He plans to introduce the measures in June, to coincide with Bristol's Big Green Week as part of his 'Let's make Sunday special' plans.
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