Sentences with phrase «by consumption instead»

Not exact matches

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

For example, if the world population hits only 8.3 billion by 2050 instead of the 9.7 billion figure typically cited by the UN, fossil fuel consumption could end up being 17 percent lower in 2050 than the oil industry thinks.

In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.

The company layers sustainable practices into its operations, reducing water consumption by establishing best practices such as weekly system inspections to identify and repair leaks, using dry lubrication conveyor bels, and air - rinsers instead of water to rinse containers prior to filling.

We identified three interrelated points of tension being intensified by supermarket chains: whether progress is encapsulated by being an agricultural production or a modern consumption centre; whether progress should be based on a model of corporate capital or the local small business; and to what extent modern citizens can and should support community shopping instead of convenience shopping.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

«That observation is in line with the usual response of cells to oxygen deprivation: they save on the consumption of oxygen by converting glucose to lactate instead of burning the glucose.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Vitamin A deficiency from consumption of high protein foods is not assisted by prenatal vitamins either as these worthless pills do not contain true vitamin A but instead the synthetic version, Vitamin A Palmitate or the plant based version beta carotene.

Moreover, to continue to demonize «carbs,» «protein» or «fat» as reductionist components of whole foods is an unproductive misdirection, originally concocted by the meat, dairy and egg industries to cloak the cautionary recommendations issued by the USDA, e.q., instead of moderating meat, dairy or egg consumption, monitor «saturated fat» consumption.

Instead, the consumption shown by the app decreases.

Instead, change the filter and add the oil to top off the volume lost by consumption and filter entrapment.

In conjunction with the 5 - speed manual transmission, consumption is reduced by 0.3 liters (5.8 instead of 6.1 / 100 km) or around 5 percent per 100 kilometers.

If ebook sales continue to decline, it just may be the signal publishers need to consider opening books online for free consumption while still being able to gain from it (by relying on ebook models that support free reading through sponsorship instead of opting for business models that require people or ebook services to purchase publishers» ebooks in advance).

Instead it explores relationships between works by artists that mine recent art history and popular culture, through cannibalistic processes of referentiality and consumption to uncover new directions and meanings, either critically or aesthetically.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

Instead of increasing to 11.5 MMB / D by 2022, gasoline consumption has been declining.

A growing number of business owners and taxpayers are mobilizing nationwide against the House - approved cap - and - trade energy bill, which would reduce energy consumption but could raise energy prices and harm small businesses By Joseph Abrams The revolution will not be televised: it's been blinking along on a giant bakery sign in St. Louis, Mo., instead.

Instead of reevaluating the way in which every one of us lives our lives (in terms of material consumption, housing patterns, transportation patterns, dietary norms) to build societies which are radically lower in carbon emissions than they are currently, just spend a lot on money trying to tinker with global ecosystems to correct for global problems which were caused by us in the first place.

Imagine the impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions by agriculture if typical American suburbanites devoted the time and energy that they presently spend on maintaining lawns and various other decorative landscape plantings to organic food gardens instead.