As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
An objection by the United Arab Emirates to Asia Green IT System's application for .islam may also be impossible to reconcile.
The first bit damaging of news was about Apple's decision to dump an international green certification system that is used by the U.S. government to determine whether its agencies can or cannot purchase a product.
Apple would not say why it had left the green certification system, but it was widely speculated that its new line of MacBook Pro laptops, which had not been reviewed by EPEAT, might be too difficult to recycle to earn the certification.
Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.
While there's a perception that a wireless network is less secure than a wired system, Green said new security protocols have made wireless more secure.
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The current eight-year-old system runs from green, signifying a low threat, to red, meaning severe.
The infrared part of the navigation system projects a green image of the terrain on to a screen in front of the pilot.
The government has published a Green Paper outlining a new system for paying teachers which is designed to provide a higher salary for successful teachers.
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Bernard Green, who devised the system for the Library of Congress that was built a few years earlier than the New York Public Library, was hired as the engineering consultant for the New York stacks.
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Rob was the driving force behind the LEED building rating system at the US Green Building Council.
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Once they are allowed to apply they would do so behind everyone else already in line for a green card within the current immigration system.
Even Sir Mark Walport, the director of the Wellcome Trust and a fierce advocate of open-access publication, worries that a system based on the green model could become fragmented.
Since most clean-energy projects have a payback period of more than five years, the system thus fails to encourage green investment.
In particular Mr Green saw opportunities in the German vocational system for motivating teenagers who were losing interest in academic studies.
It said it wanted a "traffic light" warning system for drugs - with green for those safe to take and drive, amber for caution and red signalling severe adverse effects which would dangerously impair driving.
Urban Green Energy and GE plan to sell the system to commercial and government customers.
Work also colours the green paper's principle that the welfare system should support families and children.
In the mean time, the system could be adopted incrementally, Green says.
Instead of having spectacles with a crude red filter for one eye and green for the other, the Real D system relies on circularly polarised light with one lens polarising the light to the left, and the other to the right.
The green roof is a four-layer, matlike system topped with drought-resistant sedum.
This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.
Green party MLA Steven Agnew said there should be one system for the appointment of all ministers.
The potentially high cost of enforcing a sufficiently watertight system of certification is probably too high for green timber to break out of a niche market.
The EAC said it welcomed the report by the Green Ministers Committee as a helpful contribution to establishing a system for accountability for the Greening Government Initiative.
Many people in the former Soviet Union still believe that to succeed in America you must be given the green light by the existing power structure -- a system all too prevalent throughout Russian history.
Green Mountain manufactures and sells the Keurig single-cup brewing system for use with K-Cup portion packs.
The cool-running, lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive delivers whisper-quiet acoustics and helps reduce system costs associated with the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry systems.
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