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green

or

environmental audit

an examination of an organization's production, distribution and marketing activities which concentrates upon the environmental impact of these activities. Green audits can assist an organization in identifying sources of environmental pollution or excessive resource usage so that it can then seek to improve its performance.
Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
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"I shall fly through the roof of the greenhouse if somebody doesn't hold me down.
So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where flowers and trees grew strangely into one another.
When I had exhausted the garden, and a greenhouse with nothing in it but a fallen-down grape-vine and some bottles, I found myself in the dismal corner upon which I had looked out of the window.
He had a whole greenhouse full of them--lovely ones.
After one of the nights that I have spoken of, I came down into a greenhouse before breakfast.
The Analytical, who objects as a matter of principle to everything that occurs on the premises, necessarily objects to the match; but his consent has been dispensed with, and a spring-van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door, in order that to-morrow's feast may be crowned with flowers.
He was out of sight; but she heard his footsteps in the passage on the opposite side of the greenhouse. Agatha was also invisible.
It was in one of these short meetings, each apparently occupied in admiring a fine display of greenhouse plants, that she said--
- is doubtless a great man; in his large gardens and that half-mile of greenhouses, where he has probably ripened his intellect and temper, he may say what he will to his hired vassals, but (as the Scotch say) - here
To his right was a walled garden, some lawns and greenhouses; to the left, stables, a garage, and two or three labourer's cottages.
He conducted her about the lawns, and flower-beds, and conservatories; and thence to the fruit-garden and greenhouses, where he asked her if she liked strawberries.
There were greenhouses, too, but they are all broken now.
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