Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.

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"The objective of the EU remains to achieve a comprehensive, negotiated, long-term settlement which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme, while respecting Iran's legitimate right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, " the EU statement said.

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For many years my colleagues and I have seen business and non-profit leaders intentionally capture the spirit and energy of a short-term crisis and use it not only to achieve the immediate goal, but also to build more effective ways of working over time.

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Some of his restaurants "use a percentage of green power to help offset some of our non-renewable energy consumption, and we are looking to do more in the future, " Batali spokeswoman Elizabeth Meltz wrote in an email.

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"We're committed to building the world's most environmentally responsible data centers and are leading the industry in the use of renewable energy, including the nation's largest private solar arrays and non-utility fuel cell installation, " the statement said.

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Reducing water use at its buildings, cutting down on non-essential travel and the construction of modern energy efficient stations to replace existing ones have been among suggestions of the ways in which HIFRS could cut CO2 emissions.

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