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Environmental vs Outgreen - What's the difference?

environmental | outgreen |

As an adjective environmental

is pertaining to one's environment.

As a verb outgreen is

to surpass in environmental activism or consciousness.

environmental

English

Adjective

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  • Pertaining to one's environment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}

    Derived terms

    * environmentally

    outgreen

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surpass in environmental activism or consciousness.
  • * 1990 , Zach Schiller, "P&G Tries Hauling Itself Out of America's Trash Heap", Business Week (April 23, 1990), Environment, page 101:
    • P&G is steering clear of exaggerated claims. Indeed, it has campaigned against "biodegradable" products, many of which don't break down in landfills. "We're not trying to outgreen everyone with advertising slogans," says Viney.
  • * 1999 , John Tierney, "Martian chronicle; plans for manned exploration of planet Mars", Reason (February 1, 1999), volume 30, no. 9, page 24:
    • It was a lovely moment, a developer outgreening environmentalists by nobly espousing the largest real estate project in history, and it illustrated why Mars is a no-lose proposition for libertarians.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded , page 328:
    • In 2005, David Yassky, a New York City Council member, sat down with one of his supporters, a technology entrepreneur, to brainstorm about how New York could make itself more livable, and outgreen competing cities, by making New York’s taxi fleet less toxic.

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