Sentences with phrase «because of their carbon footprint»

Yesterday Lloyd started a survey around the notion: «We have never had much luck convincing people that they should change their travel habits because of their carbon footprint, but is the economy making a difference?»

As Dunedinites, we each have a significant carbon footprint simply because of the carbon footprint and low energy efficiency of much of the city's infrastructure.

Bonnie suggests that we should say nein to the schnitzel because of its carbon footprint; she doesn't mention that classic wiener schnitzel is made from veal, which Peter Singer called «the ultimate in high - profit, confinement animal agriculture.»

(see Planet Green for directions for a Teleconference Thanksgiving) We have never had much luck convincing people that they should change their travel habits because of their carbon footprint, but is the economy making a difference?

Not exact matches

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

Long food supply chains are actually far from a simple matter because they tie into a number of social and environmental issues, including the global carbon footprint, product quality and sustainability, too.

It's not even that I'm worried about my carbon footprint, because I'm kind of worried about it, but in the grand scheme of things, I'm not like, anti-Ziploc.

Joshua Gallaway, a chemical engineer of Columbia University who was not affiliated with the study, says this type of work is critical because of biofuel's potential to reduce America's carbon footprint and its dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels.

But bamboo now constitutes one leading edge of his portfolio, in part because the bikes, he notes, have «the lowest carbon footprint on the planet.»

Due to its use of new biomass, rather than long - buried hydrocarbons, Oswald says SynGest's process has a net - zero carbon footprint, because «we're not putting new carbon into the air.»

Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere.

Ho said both the U.S. and India are interested in pursuing supercritical carbon dioxide to develop the next generation of concentrating solar power technology because it can reach greater efficiencies with smaller footprints.

You'll help the local economy, support farmers, and reduce your carbon footprint because your food will come from the next town over instead of halfway around the world.

All of our ingredients are sustainably grown and Non-GMO Project Verified, and because we source many of them from local farms within California, we're helping reduce our carbon footprint.

One of the reasons is because it reduces your carbon - footprint, (two cheers for Mother Earth!)

He lived a free and contented life with a small carbon footprint and because he had squatted there for so long, he eventually inherited the chance to call his little patch of land his own in the eyes of the law.

They're readily available everywhere from thrift stores to second hand bookshops and have a very low carbon footprint, but if you're a truly voracious reader and want to keep up on all the current titles coming to the market, an eReader allows you to tote around hundreds of good books in a tiny package and because it's meant to be reused over and over again, it offers a modern take on a problem that's already been around for some time.

This means that you can reduce your carbon footprint, because the bed is fully compostable when you are finished with it (many years down the road, of course).

The CO2 emissions footprint of wood is similar to that of concrete, because when you log a forest only 15 - 20 % of the carbon is sequestered in the lumber that ends up in the house.

Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit of weight with half the carbon footprint during combustion.

The statement estimates, and then dismisses, the pipeline's massive carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, because, it asserts, the mining and burning of the tar sands is unstoppable.

We concluded that if you live in a part of the world with relatively clean electricity, then an electric induction range is greener, both for its carbon footprint and because of indoor air quality.

First, we must build sustainable places, because it does not matter what the carbon footprint of a building is if you have to drive everywhere in order to live there.

Well, because tar sand - extracted oils have a 2X + greater carbon footprint than «conventional oil,» operating margins for producing oil in Alberta will be roughly 1/2 as good as those of the competing state oil companies, once Cap & Trade is fully implemented.

Yes, because we all know the way to reduce our carbon footprint is for others to drive small quantities of produce to our door.

They are ubiquitous throughout the Yucatan, but he wanted to bring our group to the Grand Palladium because it's a good example of a big hotel that's actually trying to minimize its carbon footprint by implementing green initiatives.

Our carbon footprint refers to the greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere because of what we do or buy.

Companies surveyed in the report typically offset less than 2 % of their total emissions, usually because they're using offsets to compensate for just one segment of that total, like employee travel or the carbon footprint of a single product.

We are sufferers of a large carbon footprint because of our high proportion of out of town commuters.

«When individuals offset their carbon footprint through projects like CDI's Trees of Hope, they're not only taking action on their unavoidable, personal contribution to climate change, but they're also addressing challenges like food security and education because many farmers include income - generating crop trees in their plantings and use their carbon finance earnings to pay for their children's schooling fees.

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

Because of their low carbon footprint, they are great for the environment.

And 64 % of the respondents said they were biking more because of the program, confirming bike share can significantly reduce a city's carbon footprint and improve health outcomes.

The UK is importing wood pellets to reduce the carbon footprint of their coal plants which is ridiculous in my opinion, but not using Municipal Solid Waste because the temperature of «normal» coal firing isn't supposedly high enough to completely sanitize the bio-waste.

As would be expected from an agribusiness voice, the very question of «which lamb has a smaller carbon footprint» is somewhat misleading because it contains the assumption «we should be able to eat lamb anytime we want to».

We don't, as a rule, trouble about the carbon footprint of foodstuffs but isn't is obvious that corn produced as food is going to be more carbon - intensive than corn produced fro fuel, if only because ethanol when transported doesn't require the same packaging and refrigeration as corn?

Calculations are often deceptive because steps are left out for some technologies, notably the decommissioning and disposal steps are often left out in calculation of carbon footprints for nuclear power.

New, gadolinium - based PV technologies are said to be as high as 40 % efficient, but I have not seen any estimates of their carbon footprints and could not guess, because I do not know how they are manufactured.

Geothermal power production has a carbon footprint associated with the construction and operation of the plant, but also because global warming gasses leak from the wells dug for heat extraction.

The wood is imported because Peter says there is no sustainably harvested wood in Africa, so the carbon footprint is perhaps higher than one would like, but it is «a model of design and craft collaborations in the developing world» and the intent is «to be ecologically, economically, culturally and aesthetically sustainable for the long term benefit of each participating community, producer and craftsperson»:: North South Project

Their new eco-store, that we alluded to in an earlier post will have a 50 % smaller carbon footprint, partially due to wind and solar power but also because it will use alternative cooling technologies instead of air conditioning.

Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your meat consumption, you may be most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness: lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating meat supports the intense abuses against animals raised in factory farms.

Construction had a much lower carbon footprint because of the ease of transport.

I reflexively scoff at bottled water, probably because it was used in my classes to illustrate the importance of considering the entire life cycle of a product when calculating carbon footprint...

It can not ignore the carbon footprint of Canada's tar sands because of an alternative pipeline to China that does not exist and will likely never be built.

We know the carbon footprint of flying, yet we fly the most ridiculous, non-essential things because we can.

First, many microgrids include renewables, in particular solar, which has become increasingly appealing because of its falling costs and low carbon footprint.

Wealthy people by the very process of getting all that wealth have vastly increased carbon footprint because every dollar of their wealth has associated carbon costs.

According to Ethical Consumer, this means that real - ale drinkers can reduce the carbon footprint of their pint because the carbon emissions of locally - produced beer are 40 % of shop - bought bottled beer or foreign beer sold in a pub.