Second, companies can deploy their innovative powers to develop and market a new generation of resource-efficient products and services.

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This year's World Environment Day, which will be hosted by San Francisco in California, US, will focus on ways to make cities more environmentally friendly and resource-efficient.

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Other resource-efficient projects like New York's 4 Times Square office building, Atlanta's EarthCraft House and Village Habitat Design's cohousing conservation communities include such innovations as energy-efficient insulation, water and air filtration, or hydronic heating, aiming for healthy, nontoxic construction processes and buildings for humans and the environment.

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Representatives from all provincial and district education offices participated in several capacity building trainings on evidence-based analysis and planning with clear priorities, realistic costing, efficient use of existing resource requirements, and mobilization of partnership.

UNESCO: Celebration of the International Literacy Day 2012: Literacy - Catalyst for Development and Peace in Cambodia | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization