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A Green Power Purchasing is Green power can be purchased nationwide from several sources. Green power marketers offer Green Power Products to consumers in deregulated markets-such as

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A Green Pricing is Green Pricing refers to an optional utility service that allows customers of traditional utilities support a greater level of utility investment in renewable

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Green Roofs are
Green Roofs are rooftops planted with vegetation. Intensive Green Roofs have

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Deutsch: Grüner Verkehr / Español: transporte verde / Português: transporte verde / Français: transport vert / Italiano: trasporto verde

Green transportation in the environmental context refers to modes of transportation and related infrastructure that minimize environmental impacts. This includes transportation systems that use renewable energy, emit lower pollutants, and promote sustainability.

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Deutsch: Gewächshaus / Español: Invernadero / Português: Estufa / Français: Serre / Italiano: Serra

A greenhouse (also glasshouse or hothouse) is a building, structure or complex in which plants are grown. They may range in size from small sheds to industrial-size buildings. A miniature greenhouse is known as a cold frame .

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A Greenhouse Barn is Commonly referring to any of a group of hoop type barns with translucent or plastic covers over a tubular steel frame.

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Deutsch: Treibhauseffekt / Español: Efecto Invernadero / Português: Efeito Estufa / Français: Effet de Serre / Italiano: Effetto Serra /

A greenhouse effect is the process that raises the temperature of air in the lower atmosphere due to Heat trapped by greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,

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Deutsch: Treibhausgas / Español: Gas de efecto invernadero / Português: Gás de efeito estufa / Français: Gaz à effet de serre / Italiano: Gas serra /

A greenhouse gas is a gas involved in the greenhouse effect. So a Greenhouse Gas is any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere.

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Deutsch: Treibhausgase / Español: Gases de efecto invernadero / Português: Gases de estufa / Français: Gaz à effet de serre / Italiano: Gas serra /

Greenhouse gases are the gases in the earth"s lower atmosphere (troposphere) that cause the greenhouse effect.

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Deutsch: Grönland / Español: Groenlandia / Português: Gronelândia / Français: Groenland / Italiano: Groenlandia

Greenland in the environmental context refers to the world's largest non-continental island, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is predominantly covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, which has profound implications for global climate and sea-level rise due to its substantial ice mass.

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