Evidently, they had not put their money where their green principles are.
Paulson had created the group to help the firm operate by green principles.
As for green principles, students learn that they make economic sense, Mr. Banks said.
In our present moment of ecological disaster, such emblems of pre-industrial, premodern "green" principles seem to arise in our intellectual culture almost unbidden.
Rather, the attitude is that, as Groh says, "the league would be better off in its bottom line" using green principles.
"It is questionable how much real CO2 reduction there will be," complains Mr Porritt.The government's green principles also tend to wither in the face of public opposition.
A role model for the rest of the new Presidio is the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, where some 50 organizations, most of them nonprofit, have taken over a dilapidated hospital complex and restored it according to green principles.
He said that even if the town was determined to use the historic buildings, they should have been incorporated as wings off a new main structure built according to "green" principles.
Since the mid-1990s, all new construction has had to meet requirements for energy efficiency, incorporating green principles into everything from building design to urban planning to low-flush toilets.
But there can be little doubt that the presidential candidate who appealed most to tree-huggers won.Although John McCain stands out among Republicans for his green principles, Barack Obama goes further.
