Sentences with phrase «compare environmental impacts»

So once other wine makers follow this lead, consumers should soon be able to compare the environmental impacts of different wines, as well as how good they taste.

Compare environmental impacts (production, transportation, etc.) of a high - density fossil fuel source with Solar PV technology that enables clean electricity to be generated in remote rural areas.

I second the comment about the 20 YEAR age of the study comparing environmental impact of cloth vs. disposables.

Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scientists have compared the environmental impacts of conventional meat production with those of alternative sources of food.

So they were comparing the environmental impact of 1000 calories of pork, which could be eaten in a single meal, to 1000 calories of lettuce, which would be something like 17 pounds!

The Draft EIS compares the environmental impacts of the agency's proposal with those of a number of regulatory alternatives.

Although last month, when it won Backpacker Magazines» 2007 Editors» Choice Green Award, the company said, «Our hope is that other like - minded companies will join us in developing an industry - wide index for comparing the environmental impacts of our design choices and we also hope to inspire consumers to ask questions, and make informed decisions about their purchases.»

Not exact matches

In order to review and compare your packaging solutions, we have made the Ecolean package's environmental impact data easily accessible and comparable.

The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

Alternative protein sources may include the use of by - products currently viewed as waste or the development of new protein sources from plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.

Lower environmental footprint - due to economies of scale, less water and energy used than cloth diapers laundered at home, no impact to landfill when compared to disposable diapers

He said the conclusions, however, support the case for a tunnel option to be included in the state's draft environmental impact statement, which will compare the costs and benefits of each option.

The study will compare the engineering, environmental, social, and economic impact of the tunnel to the other options - the community street grid or a new elevated highway to replace the existing viaduct.

DeFrancisco said Monday that the state should include the tunnel as one of the options in a draft environmental impact study that will compare each option based on cost, the impact on local businesses and the economy, traffic congestion and other factors.

But whether it's cheese or clothing, heating or hotel use, the approach allows the researchers to compare regions in terms of their consumption and quantify the environmental impacts associated with it.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

I've also compared the overall environmental impact from three different electric motors, and can therefore provide basic advice on how to design electric motors to produce as little environmental impact as possible,» he says.

Another way to help sort through the thousands of appliances out there that are EnergyStar - compliant is by checking out the Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports magazine) free Greener Choices website, which compares a wide range of merchandise according to their relative environmental impact.

Consumer food waste carries the highest environmental impact compared to losses earlier in the food chain, and it is no longer a problem concentrated only in higher income countries.

For instance, the unusual upbringings of identical twins — often wearing exactly the same clothes or being confused with one another — constitute an environmental impact that could be overlooked when comparing them with fraternal twins.

If a scientist wanted to compare brands of seeds, for instance, or their environmental impact, he or she had to seek permission from each seed company or gene patent holder.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

To assess the new policy's impacts, the researchers compared environmental and health data from Stockholm with data from 102 other Swedish cities that didn't have congestion fees.

For starters, the environmental impact of bar soap is meager compared to that of its liquid counterpart, with one investigation finding that its carbon footprint is 25 percent lower on average.

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We will carry passengers with greater speed, ease and reliability than ever before, and our travellers will have the extra reassurance of knowing that they are making far less environmental impact compared with flying.

Benefits of using the Boeing 787 family includes less fuel consumption as compared to similar aircraft, and reducing environmental impact and CO2 emission by 20 per cent.

This, of course, is both a big environmental problem (the escaping gas contributes to local smog) and a financial opportunity, particularly given that methane, besides having 25 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide when the gases are compared over a 100 - year period, is a fuel and chemical feedstock.

(But clearly a one billion population compared to five billion has less environmental impacts all other things being equal.)

Based on a study conducted on their behalf by CE Delft showing the environmental impact of mink farming compared with the production of other clothing, GAIA challenged whether the claim about the eco-friendliness of fur was misleading and could be substantiated.

Given that those changes are insignificant compared to everyone's daily experience it is clear that no environmental impacts caused by global warming could possibly be affected with this emission reduction.

For his summer project, Jemin has been comparing the mining, material use and waste impacts of different energy sources including renewables like solar and wind, which we tend to think of as having little to no environmental impact.

Comparing the full lifecycle emissions of greenhouse gases by the two fuels from production through combustion in cars, Eric Johnson, editor of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, and Russell Heinen, Vice President of SRI Consulting, found that «biodiesel derived from rapeseed grown on dedicated farmland emits nearly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions (defined as CO2 equivalents) per km driven as does conventional diesel.»

«In addition to our study of global warming, we also compared the two fuels in terms of a range of other environmental impacts — from eco and biological toxicity to ozone layer depletion and acidification,» the authors wrote.

Energy enables us to improve nearly every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental, and if we look at the big picture of fossil fuels compared with the alternatives, the impact of fossil fuels is to make the world a far better place.

The electricity sector's share of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario in 2012 was only about 9 percent of total emissions, compared to the transportation sector with 34 percent and the industrial sector with 30 percent (Ontario, Auditor General 2015), meaning that further environmental gains in the electricity sector are inherently limited.4 In any event, this impact needs to be compared to other alternatives, such as further enhancing transmission connections and expanding power purchase agreements with neighbouring jurisdictions, in particular Quebec and Manitoba, which have substantial clean hydroelectric resources.

Although sea - level rise typically is slow compared to many environmental changes, even this type of gradual sea - level rise may force other systems to cross thresholds and trigger abrupt impacts for natural or human systems unless adaptive measures are taken.

The tool also suggests what the environmental impact of going solar would be compared using grid - powered electric.

Now compare that to the corresponding «Key Finding» from our report Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States which is an independent (from the USGCRP) assessment of the scientific literature relating to environmental changes and how they may impact U.S. agriculture:

In January of last year, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology published a paper that dug in deep to the environmental impact of lithium - ion battery production and used that to compare a mid-sized electric car to a similarly sized gasoline powered car.

When your cost comparisons include all costs (decommissioning, deconstruction, true environmental impacts), then you can talk about comparing costs.

They have demonstrated that building reuse almost always yields fewer environmental impacts than new construction when comparing buildings of similar size and functionality.

As George Monbiot has argued, the environmental movement's apparent obsession with plastic bags has turned the reusable tote into an icon of green living, even though its impact on our environmental footprint is negligible compared to cutting energy use, driving less, eating less meat, or any number of other actions.

FI recently published a study comparing the social and environmental impact of Fairtrade - certified cotton to conventionally grown cotton.

The conference will consider approaches to identify, measure, value and compare environmental, social and economic impacts, building upon outcomes and recommendations from last year's event.

There are more of us today, but the environmental impact per person is miniscule compared with the past (and a good thing, too!).

Develop construction budgets that compare green and non-green construction alternatives in terms of short - term costs, long - term costs, or environmental impacts.

A home with this label has significantly better energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact compared to homes of a similar vintage.