Sentences with phrase «when plant materials»

When plant materials are removed through logging or agriculture, nutrients that would have gone back to the soil are removed from the ecosystem.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Investors felt the biggest shock waves when Japan's prime minister announced that radioactive material had leaked from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima province and that more leaks were possible.

That can be achieved only when all the factors necessary for the production and use of goods — capital, labor, raw materials and plant facilities — are freely mobilized and deployed according to the most efficient pattern — and that in turn will be possible only when national boundaries no longer play a critical role in defining economic horizons.»

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

So - called extensive roofs have fairly thin cross sections, including perhaps three inches of soil - like growing material; they weigh from 15 to 25 pounds per square foot when saturated and support low - lying plants.

She noticed immediately that most of the course materials were based on anecdotal evidence, particularly when it came to the use of plant extracts as pesticides.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.

In a paper in the current issue of Geology, Mark Sephton of Imperial College London and his colleagues reveal that sedimentary rocks from that period — when they were on the bottom of a shallow sea — contain a pulse, or unusually elevated levels of organic material from soil and plants.

Type specimens are «extremely valuable material when one is studying species relationships and species definitions,» notes Anita Cholewa, vascular plant curator at the University of Minnesota Herbarium.

It takes it up by biological and physical processes, like the material gets caught in plants and then sinks to the bottom when they die.

When Pfeiffer and his colleagues dug into the salt flats, they discovered organic material left by freshwater plants, snails and microorganisms.

This method is not useful though when analyzing processed plant material.

Like all plants, mangroves fix carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and return organic material to the soil when they decompose.

When rice comes right off the plant, it is encased in a husk material, and when that gets removed to get to the grain, the leftover husk has a lot of siliWhen rice comes right off the plant, it is encased in a husk material, and when that gets removed to get to the grain, the leftover husk has a lot of siliwhen that gets removed to get to the grain, the leftover husk has a lot of silicon.

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

When we ingest this plant material, or ingest the meat of animals feeding on these plants and grasses, we take up Strontium as well.

When plants drop leaves, twigs, and other material to the ground, it piles up.

Humus is dark, organic material that forms in soil when plant and animal matter decays.

From the project's initial conceptualization or invention sketches, to the exact materials purchased and the experimental design, to the day when a shoot first emerged in a plant biology project or a field of bacteria showed signs of antibiotic resistance, you want to encourage your students to write it all down.

The enzymes involved in the formation of goitrogenic materials in plants can be at least partially destroyed by heat, allowing you to enjoy these foods in moderation when they are steamed or cooked.

-LSB----RSB- DrRobKnight replied, «A Western diet, which often includes more meat has been linked repeatedly to differences in the gut microbiota (when compared with diets based more heavily on plant material).

It starts in December, when I begin securing genetics, property, and a crew, and it lasts through November when I finish the trim, the packaging / delivering, and the extraction of leftover plant material.

When it comes to America and goes on sale at an as yet undetermined price, the 2015 e-Golf will represent a factory once written off as uncompetitive and a company in the midst of transformation, determined to reduce energy use and material waste in its plants, to use lightweight, hot - formed steel wherever possible, and to scrape away every gram of excess metal from engine components for better efficiency.

This does not mean that they can not get nutrients from plant material, but it does mean that when it is used it must be altered in ways that allow the cat to access the nutrients.

The acidic nature of the liquid will burn plant material and this is way your grass along shrubs turn yellow when a dog pees on them.

When times were scarce and prey wasn't easy to find, wolves survived on fruit and plant materials.

The extrusion process did not work well when this material or plant starches were lacking.

The teeth wear down naturally when the rabbit eats tough fibrous plant material.

Allergic dermatitis occurs when the cat comes in contact with materials or plants and exhibits symptoms after several hours.

Some plants are poisonous, or are messy when they drop their leaves, leak sticky sap, or drop other plant materials such as pods, leaves and pollen during certain seasons, making clean up of the dogs and kennel a mess.

You can earn contribution points in the surrounding nodes so as to get the required plants and material faster when you or your workers go out farming for more ingredients.

Martin's provocations can be seen in the way he uses and confuses materials and subjects, for example when he marries the spectacle of glitter with gestural and trippy representations of plant and fungi forms, such as in Untitled (2014).

A planted wild meadow will provide raw materials for pigment makings performance / workshops, dates to be announced in July when they flower.

More ground foliage, more animals live to eat the plant material which emits Co2 / Methane when digested and more when the animals die.

Energy Coal - remains of plants that have undergone carbonization Occurs when partially decomposed plant material is buried in swamp mud and becomes peat.

Biomass means living creatures, plants and microbes and animals, and the organic materials that are left behind when the creatures die and decay.

Biochar is produced when plant matter (leaves, trunks, roots), manure, or other organic material is heated in a zero - or low - oxygen environment.

Studying the atmospheric aerosol particles, which impact cloud formation and particles, above a pristine forests, researchers discovered that when left alone the Amazon acts as its own «bioreactor»: clouds and precipitation are produced by the abundance of plant materials.

Truck drivers provide essential services when they transport raw materials or finished goods to and from plants and retail centers in Temple, Texas.

The Mars House project by Team Mars Ice House takes full advantage of the abundance of water - ice on Mars as an indigenous material that acts both as a life - force to sustain a human and plant ecosystem, and when 3D printed, as a primary fabrication material.

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Prevented customer assembly plant shut down through rapid material resource, test and re-validation of both material parts, when the original raw material supplier unexpectedly closed.

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