Sentences with phrase «by plant materials»

The stomachs contained partially digested grasses, so our pets have always been nourished by plant materials.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

These results are consistent with the idea that semiconducting carbon nanotubes are able to expand the light capture by plant materials to other parts of the solar spectrum such as the green, near infrared and ultraviolet.

Not exact matches

Part of the problem, Stack realized, was that the plant operated under a system that measured labor, overhead, and materials by their actual costs, rather than their standard costs.

From the collection and packaging of waste materials and management of satellite accumulation areas, to complete in - plant cleaning or running your RCRA treatment processes — Clean Harbors on - site staffs are solely dedicated to servicing your site by leveraging all of our capabilities and developing the safest and most cost - effective solutions for our customers.

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

The former, which may be called primitive science, describes the knowledge of the properties of materials gained by craftsmen working with wood, stone and metals, and that of plants and animals obtained by experience.

This light and porous material is draped directly over the plants and traps solar energy, warming the plants by 5 degrees F. during the day.

The new plant utilizes the latest in bulk material handling technology designed, supplied and installed by engineering company Johann Daxner GmbH who specializes in providing integrated plant and machinery projects particularly for bulk material processes.

Non-GMOGenetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are plants whose genetic material has been altered in a lab by scientists, not nature.

BBL foods Cookies Plant were manufactured by experienced and trained professionals by using the supreme grade material with high industrial standards.

Glass composition can be controlled by analyzing each new shipment of raw materials and its respective glass chemistry, requiring an analytical laboratory at each glass plant.

The Group Standard on Colouring Foods for Food Industry has strict criteria for Colouring Foods; to be compliant they must be produced from natural food raw materials, such as fruits, vegetables, plants and algae by only using physical processes.

Inputs into an organic production system are generally prohibited if synthetically compounded — defined by the ACO Standard as a process which chemically changes a material derived from plant, animal or mineral resources, with the exception of microbiological processes.

Aligned with the industry's CocoaAction strategy, we commit to tackling farmer poverty by empowering farmers to earn a better income through access to training, coaching, financing and planting material.

The following materials make good compost: coffee grounds, corn stalks and leaves, egg shells, garden plants killed by frost, grass clippings, kitchen scraps (fruits and vegetables), leaves, manure from herbivores, pine needles, sawdust, shredded newspaper, straw, and weeds (unseeded).

Natural materials, interior colors inspired by nature and planters filled with Zen rock gardens and live plants further draw nature into the work environment.

By using renewable materials as well as plant based fillers, organic mattresses are helping you and your family to live a more natural life.

The top and back lining of these diapers are constructed out of a plant based material while they have also have never been treated by chlorine or dyes.

An eco-friendly foam and innerspring mattresses like the ones sold by Naturpedic tend to be made with fewer chemicals, plastics, and PVC (vinyl), and a greater percentage of renewable and sustainable materials, such as cotton, fast - growing bamboo, coir, plant - based foam, and natural latex (rubber from tree sap that's been injected with air).

Plant derived ingredients and other raw materials are vulnerable to contamination by these microbiological pests.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

Members of Local 81380, which represents lab workers at the plant, voted 61 - 0 for the pact, which was spearheaded by closed - door negotiations between the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials of Momentive Performance Materials, which is owned by several hedge funds that include some of the richest men in the U.S.

Those trucks are filled with the invasive plant material removed by the crew using Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting, or DASH, a method approved for use in the Adirondack Park for the first time by the Adirondack Park Authority.

They identified the likely source of the chemical as a local plant operated by Saint - Gobain, a French company which manufactures Teflon - coated material.

MIT students and lecturer Amy Smith turned to widely available bagasse, the stalks of sugarcane plants left after squeezing the sugar out, and created a charcoal replacement by burning, compressing, and mixing the material with a binding agent.

These would be new types of bio-ethanol or other sorts of potential fuels that would be made by converting the cellulose, the stocky, woody material that's really makes up the structure of most plants; and we have a lot of that.

By analysing their genetic information, the team pinpointed previously unknown enzymes that can extract energy and nutrition from plant material.

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.

The researchers decided to use caffeine to induce citric acid, another edible material produced by plants, to form a polymer network along with polyethylene glycol (PEG), a biocompatible polymer that has been used in drugs and consumer products such as toothpaste for many decades.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

They drag fallen leaves and other plant material down from the surface and eat them, enriching the soil, and they do this in spite of toxic chemicals produced by plants to deter herbivores.

The decomposition of plant material stored by the ants increases the pH of the soil and increases what soil scientists call the exchange capacity — the ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients so that they are not washed out of reach of plants.

They analyzed 24 nest characteristics, including shape, material, and building behaviors — such as tree - hollowing, leaf - stripping, or plant - macerating — looking for common materials or methods shared by different species that would point to a recent common ancestor.

One such example was the establishment of Micropropagation Technology Park (MTP) by the Department of Biotechnology at TERI in 1991 for production of superior quality planting material.

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.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

They suspect that something in fermentation and baking processes unleash phenolic acids otherwise rendered inert by being bound to other plant materials in flour.

Materials provided by Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

Inspired by the air - and soil - purifying abilities of plants and fungi, other scientists are developing materials that can help eliminate harmful substances in their immediate vicinity.

Some even argue that vertical farms could save energy by recycling wastewater and composting non-edible plant material to generate methane energy.

In Malaysia, independent smallholders get planting material that has been validated by the MPOB from trusted oil - palm breeders, but that layer of quality control doesn't exist in Indonesia.

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

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

«What a Plant Smells,» by Daniel Chamovitz, is the first excerpt in a series that we will run as the books become available; more materials, including blogs by the authors, will appear on our site.

Launched last week, the plant will test the commercial potential of mineral carbonation, a process that forms stable materials by chemically binding CO2 to minerals containing calcium or magnesium.

Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.