While Barrick will not reward any process that is environmentally unsound, Mr. Wilkins hopes the competition stimulate research of a broad range of cleaner processes for extracting minerals.
The money will support research on a range of cleaner means of powering vehicles, the White House said, including electricity, biofuels, fuel cells and produced natural gas.
Our strategy to manage these risks is based on three elements: [one:] increasing energy efficiency: helping people and businesses make a real contribution to solving the challenges we face; [two:] using the widest range of cleaner energy sources; and [three:] ensuring that the UK is as energy independent of any one supplier, country or technology as possible.
"We instead need to see an energy transition that enables us to harness the engineering skills currently deployed in the oil and gas industry and apply them to supporting a range of cleaner forms of energy production".
Electrolux, the Swedish appliance maker, for example, introduced a range of vacuum cleaners in February that are made from recycled plastic.
Case study: Henry vacuum cleaners...'...Raw materials have emigrated... we are more and more vulnerable' Andrew Smith, senior manager at Numatic International Numatic Internationalal has had a "few near misses" of late, only just sourcing the raw materials needed to make its Henry range of vacuum cleaners in time after hiccups in the supply chain.
The latest initiative comes from Electrolux, which explains in the video below how it is going to gather plastic from the world's oceans and turn it into a special range of vacuum cleaners.Before you get too excited about this plan: it's actually only an "awareness raising" campaign and a total of only six hoovers will be made.
Likewise, the Sierra Club – the biggest green group in the US – was approached in 2008 by the makers of Clorox bleach, who said that if the club endorsed their new range of "green" household cleaners, they would give it a percentage of the sales.
"Our vision is to provide a faster, more dependable way of hiring a broad range of services; from cleaners to personal trainers.
At the same time, these structural shifts can facilitate a transition to better quality economic growth from a narrow base of lower value, highly polluting activities to a wider range of higher value, cleaner activities that also deliver higher per capita income and employment opportunities for citizens.
The tool can be downloaded from Symantec's website Symantec reports that Norton 2010 range of products feature a cleaner uninstall and over-installs is the recommended update route to 2011.
