Sentences with phrase «benefit to the environment»

There are a number of benefits to the environment through organic farming rather than conventional farming.

Breastfeeding is also a great benefit to the environment and society.

Plus the cost savings and benefits to the environment make it well worth the extra effort.

Simply putting furniture in a skip has the least benefit to the environment as most will go to landfill.

Without mentioning the obvious benefits to the environment that this approach to education can create, there are also several other benefits for students.

There was also an unexpected benefit to the environment.

Such a restructuring might avoid a total collapse of a large financial system, and could even be of benefit to the environment.

Three - in - ten U.S. adults think these techniques would bring net benefits to the environment and 22 % say they would have little effect on the environment.

«Farmers, land owners and managers also know the immense benefits to the environment that comes from shooting.

It would «disproportionately impact those who can least afford it — without providing any meaningful benefit to the environment or New Yorkers,» the statement said.

«Whether «front of meter» or aggregated customer - sited (behind the meter) storage, energy storage solutions - as part of the electric grid «tool - kit» - not only provide benefits to the environment and the grid, but can also help customers manage electricity costs.»

The aim will be to target new cuts in emissions of the gases that cause acid rain, to give maximum benefit to the environment.

But it's important to remember that «organic» doesn't mean the food is grown locally — it may even be grown in a foreign country and shipped to the U.S. resulting in a larger carbon footprint and smaller benefit to the environment.

Competition (e.g. imminent Apple tablet) is always good for the consumer by offering more choices at lower prices, but how can it have unintended benefits to the environment?

Because GREEN PUPS uses the surplus lignin from paper mills, less lignin needs to be burned or disposed of as part of making paper, providing a secondary benefit to the environment.

Benefits to the environment notwithstanding, you can also save some greenbacks by following an earth - friendly laundry regimen.

The research shows that offsetting one tonne of CO2 delivers an average of $ 664 worth of economic benefit to the environment and local communities.

Organic agriculture has demonstrable benefits to the environment on a per unit area basis, however, those benefits are often negated or reversed on a per unit production basis because organic systems tend to yield less per area [5].

«We now see that widespread use of PHEVs could expand the fuel options in our transportation sector and at the same time yield net benefits to our environment.»

It will bring greater benefits both to our environment and to those whose livelihood depends on it.

«Farmers, land owners and managers also know the immense benefits to the environment that comes from shooting, which is involved in the management of two - thirds of the UK's rural land area.

EPA's proposed ozone regs will weigh down the economy with no meaningful benefit to the environment.

«While Cap and Trade is being sold as the first step towards reversing global warming, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit discovered some critics who point to the very law and say there are loopholes built into it that allow the program to be «gamed» to make some companies millions of dollars without significant benefits to the environment or significant reductions in greenhouse gases»

Most people surveyed buy organic because of its benefit to the environment (53 per cent).

Using natural baby remedies also has benefits to the environment.

Right from the start we have marketed ImseVimse's products on the basis of their benefits to the environment and health.

Air passenger duty is an extremely blunt instrument that provides the Treasury with extra funds for general public expenditure without any benefit to the environment whatsoever,» a British Airways spokesman said.

Many product - sharing transactions involve renters paying a fee to product owners through an online platform, reaping several inherent benefits to this consumer - to - consumer system: profits for the product owner; lower costs for the user; benefits to the environment.

John Guinness, chairman of BNFL chastised environmental groups for contributing to a massive waste of money without any benefit to the environment.

«Our conclusion was there is no benefit to the environment of oxo - degradable plastics,» Thomas told Nature.

Cranney spent a year in the rural areas of Himachal Pradesh meeting and talking with women from several villages and investigating the success of specific income - generating projects, such as social forestry, in initiating positive transformation of gender roles, as well as examining the benefits to the environment.

On the contrary, we see bamboo grown on steep slopes and abandoned agricultural lands» — where, he explains, cultivation is likely a net benefit to the environment.

Three years down the line I'm trying to make useful items that have some benefit to the environment... but sometimes I get distracted and what I make is simply quirky!

Environmental Practice Award Awarded to the school project that can demonstrate a benefit to the environment and the environmental education of its pupils, this award will be handed to Mellor Primary School, Cheshire; Benenden School, Kent; or King's Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Zero Emission Buses Sierra Club An overview of zero emission buses, their purpose, and benefit to the environment.

Thanks to «zero emissions» the benefit to the environment is even greater, particularly in congested urban areas.

It just makes sense to let the facility be rebuilt on a football field away from the Peconic River, rendering a great benefit to the environment, the community and the well - being of homeless animals.

Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), David Small, launched «Recycle Week» at Woodvale Community Gardens by promoting the benefits to the environment of compost produced directly from the recycling of food waste.

This will cut down the energy consumption that is required in the first place, which is always a benefit to the environment.

Even with our growing emphasis on and awareness of the benefits to the environment when eating locally and seasonally, there hasn't seemed to have been a major shift in our eating habits, as most of us still want to be able to buy any kind of produce we want, any time of the year that we want, regardless of the conditions necessary to grow those items.

What we need is a set of smart, practical policies to jump - start this transition without delay and maximize the benefits to our environment and economy.

All forms of energy should be made more expensive, whether or not there is any benefit to the environment in making this change.

IICC opposes industrial scale wind power, arguing it is a potential health hazard and provides little, if any, benefits to the environment.

It could be argued that it performs a useful function as a carbon sink — all that concrete (calcium carbonate) being kept out of the atmosphere but that would be a specious position to take, confusing the wasted resource with a benefit to the environment.

Often in the policy debates on government regulations, you will have free - market people decrying inefficient impediments to business, while the other side will tout the (alleged) benefits to the environment or whatever the social goal happens to be.