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GO GREEN [14 records]

Record 1 2024-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
OBS

St. Patrick's Day is observed each year on March 17. St. Patrick's Day is not an official national holiday in Canada. It is, however, a provincial holiday in Newfoundland. St. Patrick's Day invokes the spirit of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who is credited with bringing Christianity to the island. Observed as a religious occasion in Ireland, in Canada, it is often marked with festive parades and the wearing of green. It is believed that Patrick was born in Kilpatrick Scotland. When Patrick was in his early teens, he was captured during a raid and taken to Ireland as a slave. There he learned to tend and herd sheep. At this time, Druids and pagans occupied Ireland. Patrick learned the practices and language of his captors. Because of the hardships he faced, Patrick turned to God. When Patrick was twenty, God came to him in a dream and advised him to go to the coast. Patrick escaped and sailers took him back to Britain where he was reunited with his parents. But Ireland beckoned to the young man through is dreams, so Patrick entered the priesthood, was ordained as a bishop and returned to the Emerald Isle in March 433. He traveled across the country converting the people to Christianity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
OBS

Fête des Irlandais : le 17 mars.

OBS

Éviter l'expression abrégé St-Patrick.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

Increasingly, businesses around the world are responding to a global imperative and consumer demand to go green.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Écologie (Généralités)
CONT

Outre les convictions personnelles, les propriétaires de PME [petites et moyennes entreprises] indiquent prendre le virage vert dans le but de réaliser des économies potentielles et de répondre aux attentes des clients.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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Record 3 2024-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
  • Real Estate
CONT

Having an idea of a real estate project is the start of every new development. However, for this idea to become a reality, a developer must take various steps to get the green light from the local government to go from the first sketch to screwing in the final touches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Immobilier

Spanish

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Record 4 2023-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling (Road Transport)
CONT

A green arrow... indicates [that a person] may turn in the direction of the arrow. A green arrow pointing straight means that no turn is permitted and drivers can only go straight through. A flashing green arrow with a steady green light means drivers may turn in the direction of the arrow or proceed through.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation routière

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Transportation
OBS

Active Living Go for Green, 1997.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Transports
OBS

Document de Vert l'action.

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Systems
CONT

The monitor panel consists of a series of status and malfunction lights. During normal operation the green status lights are on. If a malfunction occurs, the green lights will go out and red lights will come on. The malfunction lights will indicate red only when a malfunction occurs; there is no indication from them during normal operation. The cylinder elongation readout, an 8-day, 24-hour-dial aircraft clock, and the launching-valve stroke-timer indicators, light-switch units, and fuses are also on the monitor panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits des aéronefs
OBS

Le panneau de contrôle est équipé de voyants qui indiquent l'état de fonctionnement des circuits. En cas de défaillance d'un circuit, le voyant vert s'éteint et le rouge correspondant s'allume.

OBS

panneau de contrôle : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Canadian)
  • Skating
OBS

Ice Dreams is a national Go for Green program that encourages the development and use of new and existing outdoor rinks in Canada. It provides opportunities for girls and boys of all ages to get active in the outdoors during winter by playing hockey or other games on frozen ponds and waterways, or backyard, neighbourhood and community rinks. The idea is to "rip the roof off winter" and create opportunities for unstructured play, healthy, outdoor physical activity and Ice Dreams is a component of Go for Green's Winter Green initiative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux canadiens
  • Patinage
OBS

Rêves de glace est un programme d'envergure nationale qui vise à soutenir et encourager la création et l'utilisation des patinoires extérieures, aussi bien nouvelles qu'existantes, d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Rêves de glace vise essentiellement à permettre aux filles et aux garçons de tout âge de demeurer au grand air durant les mois d'hiver en jouant au hockey et à d'autres jeux pratiqués sur la glace d'étangs et autres cours d'eau gelés, de patinoires résidentielles, de quartier ou municipales. L'idée rejoint l'objectif «Enlever le toit de l'hiver» pour goûter pleinement aux joies de l'hiver en créant des occasions de s'amuser à l'extérieur, librement et sainement, de pratiquer des sports d'équipe communautaires ou simplement pour garder la forme. Rêves de glace s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet Hiver l'action initié par l'organisme Vert l'action.

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Sports (General)
OBS

Go for Green is a national non-profit, charitable organization encouraging Canadians to pursue healthy, outdoor physical activities while being good environmental citizens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Sports (Généralités)
OBS

Vert l'action est un organisme de bienfaisance national à but non lucratif qui encourage les Canadiens et les Canadiennes à pratiquer des activités physiques en plein air tout en faisant preuve d'écocivisme.

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

The political terrain on which the environmental debate is conducted today is defined almost entirely by the central premises of the environmental left. The green lobby maintains that ecological resources are by definition public property, or commons, that must be centrally planned and stewarded by bureaucratic agents lest they be recklessly despoiled by industry. Moreover, central planners must not only have nearly complete veto power over private actions that might affect the environment; they must also be empowered to stipulate how much pollution is acceptable and exactly how each business is to go about controlling emissions and even, in some circumstances, how products are manufactured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
  • Écologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les écologistes et le lobby vert ne sont pas les seuls à s'en inquiéter. Des scientifiques réputés se posent des questions concernant notre exposition grandissante aux composés chimiques synthétiques.

OBS

Pluriel : des lobbys ou des lobbies.

OBS

lobbys (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Regulations (Urban Studies)
  • Areal Planning (Urban Studies)
CONT

Mr. Bill Waite, a member of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board ... presented the new green space fee schedule and requested that it be approved. He explained the proposed fee schedule represented an increase of one hundred percent. ... He ... explained the green space fees were used dominantly either for acquisition of land or development of existing park areas. Mr. Waite explained the Parks Board was also recommending a change in the method of collection of such fees. He pointed out that, in large scale developments, the developer was required to pay the fee in three installments upon approval of final plat and within two years thereafter. He recommended all green space fees be tied to the inssuance of a building permit.

CONT

The board unanimously voted to amend village codes and put in place a new building permit and green space fees. The monies raised by those fees will go towards park and green space improvements.

OBS

green space fee: term often used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • green space fees
  • green-space fee
  • green-space fees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réglementation (Urbanisme)
  • Aménagement du territoire
DEF

Taxe payée par un constructeur lors d'opération de lotissement ou de construction à l'intérieur de certaines zones protégées dites «périmètre sensible».

CONT

Dans l'ensemble, ces îlots de «nature» urbains et périurbains sont non seulement dotés d'un statut fortement protecteur, mais ils peuvent aussi, dans certains pays, bénéficier de mesures incitatives telles que : i) subventions pour l'acquisition de terrains aménageables en espaces verts par les communes et aides pour l'aménagement de «coins verts» sur la voie publique, en Belgique; et ii) redevances d'espaces verts, plans verts départementaux et contrats verts d'agglomération entre l'État et les villes, programmes régionaux d'espaces verts, en France.

CONT

La jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel est claire. Par «imposition de toute nature», il faut entendre les impôts, quelle que soit leur dénomination, les cotisations sociales, les taxes et redevances, ainsi que certains types de prélèvements obligatoires, recouvrés dans des conditions particulières, comme les redevances d'espaces verts ou les taxes de défrichement.

OBS

redevance d'espaces verts : terme souvent utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • redevances d'espaces verts
  • redevance d'espace vert
  • redevances d'espace vert

Spanish

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Record 11 1997-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
OBS

Active living, Go for Green.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Vie Active, Bouger, c'est dans ma nature.

Spanish

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Record 12 1996-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oral Presentations
OBS

Go for Green

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exposés et communications orales
OBS

Bouger, c'est dans ma nature!

Spanish

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Record 13 1993-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
OBS

The objective of Go Green is to encourage residents of Greater Vancouver to "give up the single life" while commuting to and from work. Instead, carpool and use transit more often

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours

Spanish

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Record 14 1987-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling and Illumination (Air Transport)
CONT

... the colour green is used for threshold lights, for taxiway center line lights, and as a "go" signal in the signalling lamp and in traffic control lights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation (Transport aérien)
CONT

(...) le vert est utilisé pour les feux de seuil de piste, pour les feux axiaux de voie de circulation et en tant que signal "voie libre" dans le cas des projecteurs de signalisation et des feux destinés au contrôle de la circulation.

Spanish

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