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17th April 2005

Can Managing the Environment Benefit Rural Businesses and Communities?

22nd April 2005, Glencoe Visitor Centre, Glencoe The Sustainable Development Research Centre (SDRC) and the National Trust for Scotland are jointly hosting their first Propositional seminar on Friday 22nd April 2005 at G...

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17th April 2005

PNM issues its first sustainability report

The state's largest utility provider, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), issued a report Wednesday detailing the company's efforts in the areas of environmental awareness and improvement, social responsibility a...

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17th April 2005

BofA launches policy to save paper, forests

Bank of America Corp. has launched a paper-procurement policy to protect forest ecosystems. The policy seeks to minimize the bank's paper consumption, ensure the sustainability of source forests and protect fragile areas...

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17th April 2005

Iran taking part in ministerial conference on environment in Dubai

Iran, as a member of the international community has seriously taken into consideration the need to preserve the environment, said Iran's representative to an environmental conference Masoumeh Ebtekar here on Saturday.

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17th April 2005

Code for Sustainable Buildings – Better Buildings

At the Better Buildings Summit in October 2003 Ministers announced the establishment of the Sustainable Buildings Task Group (SBTG), co-chaired by Sir John Harman, Chairman of the Environment Agency and Victor Benjamin, ...

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17th April 2005

UK Government procurement 'lacks sustainability'

A committee of MPs has urged the government to take a stronger leadership role in ensuring sustainable procurement across the public sector. The call comes in a Commons environmental audit committee report examining how ...

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17th April 2005

Follow–up to Learning the Sustainability Lesson

Environmental Education: Follow-up to Learning the Sustainability Lesson, was published as the Committee's Fifth Report, HC 84, at 11.00 on Tuesday 5 April 2005.

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17th April 2005

Hamburg Sustainable Construction Forum

26-27 May 2005, TuTech, Hamburg, Germany One of the major obstacles to the implementation of sustainable development is the fact that it is often perceived as something vague and abstract.

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17th April 2005

UO Sustainability Leadership Academy Seminar April 22, 2005

Bob Doppelt, Instructor and Academic Coordinator for the UO Sustainability Leadership Academy, will share principals and practices from his internationally ranked book at the Systems Thinking for High Performance Organiz...

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17th April 2005

UK Election – Lib Dems pledge to improve environment

The Liberal Democrats have promised to ban commercial genetically modified crops as they set out their environmental policies. The party wants a moratorium on GM crops until they are proved safe for people and the enviro...

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