But as the United States transitions to a carbon-constrained economy, new industries would develop, consequently spawning jobs and sustaining growth while also improving air and water.

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The idea is that half a dozen startups can occupy the same office space when each has only three or four employees and can move out into bigger offices when they raise venture capital dollars or develop a level of self-sustaining sales.

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The current challenges associated with maintaining and sustaining an adequate supply of clean water are spurring opportunities to develop new innovations that will protect the environment and create jobs.

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These rock-like objects were the first lifeforms to pump enough oxygen into the sea and atmosphere so that complex lifeforms could develop, helping them become the beautiful, life sustaining waters that we know today.

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Security Council members also acknowledged the important role played by the Lebanese security and armed forces in sustaining national unity and sovereignty, and welcomed steps being taken to further develop their capacities, including through the strategic dialogue with UNIFIL, and encouraged further international assistance to this end.

UN: Security Council

At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry.

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It is then possible for a market to develop in which schools, hospitals and local councils buy capacity and entrepreneurs can establish self-sustaining private telecentres.

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