Pope Gregory XIII instituted it in 1582 to replace the godless, prevalent Julian Calendar. Julian lost a quarter day every year. The papal-named solar calendar is now used all over the world. To keep the calendar in sync with the way the Earth moves, every normal, or nonleap, year has 365.25 days. Every fourth year is given 366 days and called a leap year.
A business functioning with no negative impact. Local or global environments, the community, and the economy benefit. Forward-thinking policies for environmental concerns and policies affecting human rights are the entity’s focus.
Waste water relatively clean. Sourced from the kitchen, or tub or sink or shower, not the toilet, and laundering. Usable with little or no treatment for landscape irrigation and other non-potable uses. Known also as sanitary water.
US immigration authorities issue alien registration cards to non-US citizens as permits to live and work in the US for an indefinite period. The use of green paper for these cards gave this object its name.
An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.
In English law. A board or court of justice held in tlie countinghouseof the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferiorofficers. It takes its name from the green cloth spread over the board at which it isheld. Wharton; Cowell.
As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary,that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respectto physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Smith, 87 Tex. 348, 28 S. W. 520.
Using environmental attributes as design objectives and not as constraints as a product design philosophy. Quality, performance, functionality, and useful life are not compromised when incorporating green attributes.
a term that applies to a major injury.
Environmental focus as an economic section that correlates relational impacts of economics and environmental positives. Each economic decision must have a focus on the environment is a foundational principle. Economic focus in the value that policies bring to the environment, beyond material possessions, is another principle.