On top of all the usual pro-bud, "It's only a plant, man" rhetoric, one argument was that legalisation would create a tax-profitable "green economy".
But at least green-growth accounting should make them more open and explicit.If so many profitable but green activities exist, why aren't companies rushing in?
In the last five years or so, Ong said, Ethiopia has realized that bamboo is a more profitable and greener solution.
"With little or no animal welfare laws to protect them in these countries, greyhounds are routinely injured, mistreated and finally killed when they are no longer profitable," the Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said.
Even more than that, they'd like to repair and refurbish their products for resale (reusing old products is more profitable and more green than making new ones, even from recycled material).
That was enough of a premium that we figured I could make my system profitable with baby greens, so I started a company I called GreatVeggies, and soon I was selling baby greens in several supermarkets in Ithaca".
It's about as close as anyone has gotten so far to a self-sustaining and potentially profitable way to turn green slime into green energy.
Developers, a big part of the solution, will struggle to make a profitable fist of turning green when energy and the costs of pollution are grossly mispriced, favouring old-fashioned utilities.
Kingsbury dismissed fears that the bank would change its focus to "easier" projects, saying it has established a strong track record of "being green and profitable" that it wanted to capitalise on.
The industry needs to get smaller while finding a profitable way to make small, green cars.
