Sentences with phrase «greening the economy does»

The green economy doesn't just entail solar panels, wind turbines and using electric vehicles.

But greening the economy does not necessarily offer growth opportunities for companies that are not investing in innovation.

Not exact matches

«What Ramsey and Pam [Khalidi's wife] are doing is not only a model for historic preservation but also for urban renewal and poverty reduction,» says Albert George, founder of the Georgia Green Economy Summit, which honored Khalidi at a recent event.

«The economy is at the root of the Democrats» problem, but it doesn't mean that religion and other demographic factors cease to matter,» said John Green, a scholar at the University of Akron who specializes in faith and politics.

However, the most reassuring remark was that Greening claimed «that the Department for Transport is slap bang in the middle of what the government is trying to do in getting the economy back on its feet».

«Energy efficiency is all about doing more with less,» said Jessica Azulay, of the Alliance for a Green Economy.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

Officials said the study, which was done in - house by Council staff, was green - lighted because Mark - Viverito wanted to see how the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's policies would affect the local economy.

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

The chemical industry is helping to drive an energy - efficient green economy but it can't do so with one hand tied behind its back.

«It can be done quickly through tax credits and benefits, and it supports immediate spending in the grass roots of the economy,» said Ms Green.

Not only does this project promote renewable energy, but it also creates green jobs while helping to boost the local economy.»

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

The latter does not get covered in any specificity in the Rio +20 outcome document, beyond the political adoption, with several caveats, of the Green Economy, and the work mandated on beyond GDP.

In a market that values fuel economy, luxury, green - ness, low lease payments or whatever, «pretty» evidently doesn't cut it any longer.

While winning the Green Challenge tops Corvette Racing's to - do list at Road Atlanta, Petit Le Mans is ultimately a race, not an economy run.

But car makers are busy building plug - in hybrids like the Passat GTE because governments have been so fixated by CO2 emissions they've skewed the tax costs hugely in favour of those cars which seem to be green, and the useless official economy tests, which proclaim the Passat GTE will emit just 39g / km and do 166mpg.

I am considering more stocks in the green zone, which has more stable defensive stocks, than the red zone, which has stocks that will do well if the economy has a strong recovery.

I don't really know what they're doing, but I'd guess the institutional imperative calls for them to hug the index and over - or under - weight particular industries, sectors or companies on the basis of a story («Green is the new black,» «China will consume us back to the boom,» «house prices never go down,» «the new dot com economy will destroy the old bricks - and - mortar economy» etc).

I do not understand why 20K and 20L are marked as green: they are just standard economy seats and the absence of the row ahead makes no difference.

I would rate this seat green because the legroom is really good, there is no traffic of people since the people in premium do nt usually go to economy.

But on the other hand, we here have to balance that fact against a compelling development argument: agriculture of high - margin organic produce is a potential economic boon for many people in developing countries — which also can diversify their economies and to do so in a (locally) green way.

It sometimes seems that all of the convincing that's done to try to get faster action on climate change has to do with the «what's in it for me» aspect of the issue — create green jobs, profit from the new green economy, stop sea level rise from overtaking your city — or on the stats of the issue.

Even if she wanted to turn it around to something to do with the economy, she would have done much better to point out the «Green Jobs» connection — that the things we need to do to fight climate change have a big impact in creating high - quality skilled jobs of a nature that can't be exported to cheap - labor countries.

Alexander, certainly you are right, but the question that troubles you, does not solve our problem which is to know who is responsible of the present day climate changes; I fear that changing our Hydrocarbon based economy to a Hydrogene based economy, would send a much bigger green house gas in the atmosphere, I mean water vapor

Green energy does not need to stagnate the economy.

It is of course possible to get to 80 % green energy if you don't mind blackouts when the wind isn't blowing and you ignore the huge impacts on the economy of such expensive energy.

... Hanssen was approached last year by Felix Kramer for help in building a dashboard monitor for a Prius that he and CalCars, his group of plug - in advocates, had converted into a crude plug - in... Hanssen recently showed off his prototype at the 2005 Tour de Sol, a green - car race in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where it didn't win but did deliver a fuel economy of 102 m.p.g. over a 150 - mile course.

California's relatively pain - free green energy shift has given politicians there a false sense of security that they can do more at little cost to ratepayers and the economy.

Die - hard environmentalists say a green economy relies completely on renewable energies with «zero» greenhouse gas emissions, and they do not regard a «low - carbon» economy as «green» because it still releases harmful emissions.

The company does this through a form of renewable energy certificates, which, while a bit complicated, means that it's not just energy neutral, i's actually helping fuel the green energy economy.

And repeating the old and comforting green nostrums, day - after - day, in ever - louder decibels, does not change the political economies of Ohio and Montana much less China and India.

«If you don't do anything on carbon and you don't have renewable energy standards or investment tax credit, every utility company would go out tomorrow and build coal,» Eric Spiegel, the new CEO of Siemens USA, which is one of the country's top companies for engineering and producing machinery for the new green economy.

Doing nothing in a green economy would be doing nothing, but in a post-1991 (to me in retrospect when IPCC evidence became overwhelming) economy, doing nothing is inflicting Doing nothing in a green economy would be doing nothing, but in a post-1991 (to me in retrospect when IPCC evidence became overwhelming) economy, doing nothing is inflicting doing nothing, but in a post-1991 (to me in retrospect when IPCC evidence became overwhelming) economy, doing nothing is inflicting doing nothing is inflicting harm.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has done a series of studies looking at the economic benefits of moving toward a greener economy.

The «reality» is that we need to very careful that we don't rush into something because we're being urged to do so by green zealots — who may or may not have ulterior motives for trashing the Australian economy.

Hanssen recently showed off his prototype at the 2005 Tour de Sol, a green - car race in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where it didn't win but did deliver a fuel economy of 102 m.p.g. over a 150 - mile course.

For all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can in turn create systemic change for our economy as a whole.

If the Sahara ever did green as a result of AGW on the scale of the Arctic response (over longer than a couple of decades), then we'd see impacts unlike anything else on the world Economy since the dawn of Industrialization.

The Rio Fossil Awards will be presented daily throughout the negotiations highlighting the country or countries who do the least to support progress (or the most to block it) on issues relevant to climate change, such as energy, forests, and the green economy.

The choice of Gov. Huntsman has been lauded for various reasons - his fluency in Chinese, his track record as an Asian diplomat, the bipartisanship on the part of President Obama in nominating a Republican for the position (although some say he did so to take Gov. Huntsman, a likely Republican contender for the 2012 elections, out of contention)- but receiving less attention is the fact that Gov. Huntsman is a vocal advocate of the clean energy economy and the greenest governor that Utah as ever had (see youtube video interview).

Now we have stupid governments, like the Liberals here in Ontario, who think they are doing the «right thing» attempting to curb emissions with the Green Energy Act, erecting windturbines and solar panels all over the place with the direct consequences of killing the economy, driving up electricity prices to unaffordable levels, and not one molecule of CO2 has been reduced.

The economy made it a tough year for everyone in design and architecture, and, hence, this year's Best of Green Awards for Design and Architecture celebrate those who are doing the tough jobs: revitalizing downtowns, building social housing, developing new business models, and being the game - changers, looking a new and different ways of doing things.

I caught up with the author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine during the action, and she discussed why we need to rebuild the economy in a greener, less growth - hungry mold — and how the Occupy Wall Street movement is already helping us do that:

According to Siemens US CEO, Daryl Dulaney the reason for funding the Smart Chopper was because, «We wanted to build this unique chopper to raise environmental awareness and reflect what the 69,000 employees of Siemens USA are doing to help America stay on the cutting edge of tomorrow's green economy.»

With today's economy, we're trying to figure out how to shop local and green and keep it affordable, but it is very hard to do!

But the reality is BusinessGreen does not only report on a green economy that is in constant flux, we are also part of a media industry that is facing similar disruption.

From learning to love your stuff, to establishing a personal green stimulus plan, as long as we live in a market - based economy, I see more promise in using our money and our purchases as a tool for change than I do in rejecting the evils of money all together.

The more people with visible, impressive tattoos who advocate green energy and understand what it does for a country's economy, what it does for its country's independence and what it does in the fight against climate change, the more we're going to have success in Washington, D.C....

Scary, if you don't think the green economy is waiting just around the proverbial corner.