Sentences with phrase «big impact to the environment»

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«The mine would have had a big impact on the valley, there would have been a huge cost to the environment,» says Nicole Venzin, a teenager who works in a clothes shop in the town of Chur because of a lack of jobs in the valley.

«Barring any big changes in the environment, we expect Chinese investment in Canadian real estate to increase in 2016, and the impacts of that investment to be spread more widely as these buyers move into new markets,» Charles Pittar, CEO of Juwai.com.

«We've got to figure out a way to solve the big problems like food's impact on environment and health,» Tetrick told the New York Times.

«Today the biggest challenge facing the packaging industry is the environmental impact it creates and the design that it can have to lessen the burden on the environment.»

Most nut milks require a lot of water to grow and produce, so although they're good for you, they can have a bigger impact on the environment than other milk alternatives.

That is a big enough chunk of activity to have real impact on the environment and the climate.

B. Millions of daily meals add up to a massive impact on our agricultural system and the environment, so a simple, commonsense change could have a big impact.

As people understand their relationship to the environment — its impact on us and, in turn, our impact on it — they become increasingly aware of how small, individual actions add up to a big difference.

The capital gains environment may have an even bigger impact on the commercial real estate sector, said Robert Knakal, chairman of Massey Knakal Realty Services, noting that several of his clients have decided to sell this year because they anticipate the rate will go up in the new year.

Unshared environment — or the twins» independent experiences in life — had the biggest impact on both trust and distrust, with unshared experiences contributing 81 percent to distrust and 70 percent to trust.

However, it is electricity consumption by microwave appliances that has the biggest impact on the environment, taking into account its whole life cycle, from production of fuels to generation of electricity.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.

Of course tidal barrages can have a big impact on the local environment, but they must be part of the solution if we are serious about moving to sustainable energy.

Our emissions to the atmosphere impact on natural processes, the environment, and health in very many ways — the ozone hole was the first big warning.

Bill Clinton and Robert Kennedy Jr. are coming to town to speak at a big environmental event and the flowers have to be politically correct - locally grown for minimal impact on the environment!

Since the unforgettable Frontline, the series has struggled to make a big impact so I was hopeful that would change when they changed the setting and opted for a more modern environment.

They're moving from being a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one in a very large, unfamiliar environment that often simply overwhelms them - and the impact on their attainment can be disastrous.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

We are delighted to invite you to attend our Big History Anthropocene Conference: A Transdisciplinary Exploration in Sydney, Australia.The human race has had such a profound impact on the climate and environment of the Earth that some have proposed we have entered a new geological era — the Anthropocene.

The environment in which we learn impacts greatly the learning that happens, and Dr. Dillon continues to stress this work as he consults with schools around the country on how learning spaces and the culture of learning in these modern spaces can facilitate big change in a short amount of time.

Russ: I think that environment really does have a big impact on learning, and I think it's a point we need to make.

A bigger challenge for young and middle - aged Canadians, added Vettese, is the low interest rate environment and the impact that the aging population is having on the balance between savers and borrowers, despite efforts by government to stimulate the economy.

«HPR is our largest active ETF by AUM, and a big reason for this popularity is the success Fiera has had in managing this asset class throughout various interest rate environments which tend to significantly impact the prices of preferred shares.»

This doesn't just apply to web hosting companies because paper waste is one of the biggest impacts that many businesses have on the environment.

Religions, he explained, run more than half the world's schools, so tweaking a curriculum to include more on the environment can have a big impact.

In many arid parts of the world, desertification is a major issue, and advancing deserts and loss of formerly fertile lands can have a big impact on not just the local environment, but can also affect where and how people live in those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the cities.

In looking at potential global warming solutions, it is important to consider how big a role they can play, how fast they can be implemented, how affordable they are, and what impact they have on the environment.

Plus, read to the end and find out how you can take simple, everyday actions that have a big impact on our environment.

And don't forget the benefits arise from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to human - built environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise, and human - health impacts.

Wind energy is emission - free so that it does not pollute the environment or contribute to climate change — the single biggest threats to wildlife in that climate change can disrupt reproductive cycles, shift ranges, alter hibernation habits, and impact the availability of prey.

In energy terms, titanium dioxide has the biggest impact on the environment compared to the solvents and binders.

We've done a number of things over the years, but, of course, more recently, we've come to the realization that the biggest way for us to make an impact — there's only so much we can do as individuals and as a company, and we are doing those things, and will be doing more of those things, in terms of reducing both the employees and company's footprint on the environment — but we realized the biggest way to make an impact is through our users.

«When you talk to apparel companies, what they will tell you is that the biggest impact of apparel on the environment is consumer care,» said Linda Greer, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the director of their Clean by Design program.

Mattar said there are three causes for which people do not care about the environment: «They don't know their behavior has significant impacts in society and the environment; they know that, but they don't realize those are going to have an impact in their own lives; they know both those, but they find the problem too big for them to make a difference».

Of all global impacts on the environment, none has a bigger footprint than food and agriculture, and few scholars are better prepared to discuss and advise our agricultural future.

Because Searaser produces electricity on land, not sea, its inventor Alvin Smith claims it circumvents one of the biggest existing barriers to wave energy — the harsh marine environment and its impact on generating equipment.

«Barring any big changes in the environment, we expect Chinese investment in Canadian real estate to increase in 2016, and the impacts of that investment to be spread more widely as these buyers move into new markets.»