This is driving strong demand for smart grids, green building materials and the like.
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Knowledge sharing led to extremely successful business opportunities for companies like GE and construction company Cemex (in green energy and building materials directed toward the bottom of the period in Latin America, respectively).
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They might also cover the start-up costs of suppliers, lowering prices of green-building expertise and materials.
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Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
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Obviously, needing to replace materials before their expected lifetimes is not particularly green.
The difference, he claims, is that OrganoClick employs environmentally friendly catalysts and materials, a pitch also used by other green chemistry start ups.
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Next to the bank's entrance there is a small store where people can use their green bills to buy food or cleaning materials at very low prices.
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New Orleans-based companies Strike It Green and the Green Project will be recycling props, base materials, and carpeting from the Super Bowl sets and events in an effort to bring life to materials that are otherwise thrown out and wasted.
Both materials are available in 16 different color cartridges including new glow in the dark green and blue and metallic silver colors.
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For civilian purposes, these materials are crucial for high-tech items such as computers and televisions as well as green items such as batteries and fluorescent light bulbs.
In addition, members of the Green Team educated the student population along with the faculty and staff as to what materials could and could not be recycled.
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