Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions footprint»

or exceeded using only the electricity portion of our overall carbon emissions footprint.

Through their partnerships with Bullfrog Power, these Canadian icons are reducing their carbon emissions footprints and helping create awareness about the actions we can all take to reduce our environmental impact.

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Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

In 2008, the company used Chevy HHR crossover vehicles and switched from a diesel to gasoline fleet to reduce emissions and its carbon footprint.

Certified farms must reduce their carbon footprint by providing cattle with an easy to digest diet — generating less methane emissions — treating manure and protecting the trees in pastures and neighboring forested areas.

«In general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprints.

This environmentally responsible program improves clients» carbon footprints by reducing chemical use, volatile organic compounds, packaging waste and transportation emissions.

The goal includes an ambitious end - to - end approach to reduce its carbon footprint through actions to reduce deforestation in its agricultural supply chain as well as to cut carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing by an absolute 15 percent, in line with science - based targets.

Consumer goods companies have been seeking a package that significantly reduces shipping, breakage and other manufacturing costs, and that responds to retailer requests for a more environmentally sustainable product with lower greenhouse gas emissions and a reduced carbon footprint.

Cayuga Marketing LLC — a collective of dairy farmers in the Finger Lakes Region, NY — decided to construct their local processing plant to reduce their milk - hauling costs while also greatly reducing transport emissions and carbon footprint as a result of the shorter transportation distances involved.

An energy efficiency program focused on such things as EPA SmartWay trailers and fuel efficient truck fleets means this carrot company has lower carbon emissions and is working toward a smaller environmental footprint.

With increased attention to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy - to - use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.

We take great pride in running an environmentally friendly company, and since 2007, Icelandic Glacial has worked with The CarbonNeutral ® Company, a leading carbon emissions consultant to maintain a net - zero carbon footprint.

The CarbonNeutral Company independently calculates and verifies our carbon footprint and then works closely with us to offset any remaining carbon emissions.

«Ingredients were responsible for 78 percent of emissions, and using beef and lamb alone accounted for 37 percent of Mission Chinese Food's carbon footprint,» Leibowitz shared.

Buying recycled products reduces greenhouse gas emissions, saves energy, and in return, minimizes our carbon footprint - which is so vital to our children's future.

«New York is aggressively working to cut greenhouse emissions and reduce the state's carbon footprint, and with the addition of this new microgrid, the Empire State Plaza will support our ongoing efforts to combat climate change,» Cuomo said in a statement.

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Considered, until now, a source of greenhouse gas emissions, capturing the CO2 fixed by the tropical forest through the soils of the watershed to release it into the atmosphere, the Amazon River actually has a balanced carbon footprint.

The National Hockey League will significantly reduce its carbon footprint — as well as the greenhouse gas emissions of its 30 franchise teams — through improved energy conservation, detailed efficiency analyses and the purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) under a newly signed agreement with Constellation Energy Group, the league announced yesterday.

Tao says that his team cooperates with carbon trading experts to credit the emissions data and hopes to sell the credits to whoever needs them to offset his carbon footprint.

It has been especially pro-active around the mitigation of carbon emissions and last year, along with the International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and 12 major hotel chains including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Starwood, launched the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative, which aims to help hotels reduce, measure and communicate their carbon footprints.

«Economic development equals greater carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emissions.»

Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions?

The payoff of broadening their carbon footprint analysis, says Chris Hendrickson, co-director of Carnegie Mellon's Green Design Institute, is that companies will find «new cost - effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»

Plastic has a huge carbon footprint: Producing the petroleum - based material accounts for at least 100 milion tons of carbon emissions each year.

UNEP also says it is having difficulty determining the ultimate «carbon footprint» left by the Beijing Olympics, due to unreliable figures and having no clear methodology for counting carbon dioxide emissions from activities surrounding the games.

Assuming that the kosher consumer replaces the average American's four pounds of shrimp a year (and its 9.79 pounds, or 4.4 kilograms, of carbon dioxide emissions) with another fish, Canadian North Atlantic herring is a good choice: it takes around 5.28 gallons (20 liters) of fuel to purse seine (net using two trawlers) a metric ton of these small fish, according to Dalhousie, releasing about 117 pounds (53 kilograms) of carbon dioxide — meaning four pounds of herring have a carbon footprint of a mere 0.21 pound (0.09 kilogram).

carbon dioxide emissions per passenger on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight would be about 60 percent of a passenger's carbon footprint on a round - trip flight between New York and London.

In a major decision that the ethanol industry called «workable,» the Obama Administration ruled that carbon emissions from deforestation abroad should count in determining the carbon footprint of biofuels.

And CarbonFund.org even allows you to assess your carbon footprint — and then offers you the ability to offset such emissions by investing in clean energy initiatives.

Scientists used modeling to simulate various growing scenarios, and found a climate footprint ranging from -11 to 10 grams of carbon dioxide per mega-joule — the standard way of measuring greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).

The sector's carbon footprint is second only to the power sector, contributing around 27 percent of overall emissions in the United States in 2013, according to U.S. EPA.

Mike Hightower, a senior researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, cautions that reducing carbon emissions, while crucial, is just one part of the energy equation: Virtually every time you lower the carbon footprint in industrial energy production, he says, «you end up with a bigger water footprint.»

The researchers found that the 20 percent of U.S. diets with the highest carbon footprint accounted for 46 percent of total diet - related greenhouse emissions.

Rio de Janeiro, for example, used a draft of the GPC to determine that transportation was responsible for a whopping 39 % of the city's total emissions; that led the government to focus on expanding public transit to more efficiently shrink its carbon footprint.

Each system also has residual benefits that could reduce CO2 emissions that may not be factored into calculating bike - sharing's carbon footprint.

Taken together, he explained, emissions from the aviation and shipping industries represent about 5 percent of humanity's total emissions — the approximate equivalent of the collective carbon footprint from the planet's least - polluting 164 nations, he explained.

(2) the term «carbon footprint» means the level of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a particular activity, service, or entity; and

While there is only so much these companies can do to reduce their huge carbon footprints — given their reliance on emissions - heavy air transport — they've made great strides in greening their ground fleets, optimizing their choices of modes and otherwise streamlining energy use.

They found that the top 20 percent, with the highest carbon footprint, was responsible for eight times more emissions than the lowest 20 percent, and that beef consumption accounted for 72 percent of the difference.

For each carbon footprint, researchers considered both direct carbon emissions — from the consumption of food, heating and cooling of homes and the use of transport — and indirect carbon emissions — from the production of household goods and services.

Second - hand and recycled gifts are encouraged this year, and for that person who has everything — including a large carbon footprint — Origin Energy (www.originenergy.com.au) and Climate Friendly (www.climate friendly.com) offer gift certificates that offset carbon emissions.

Carbon footprint quantification, analysis and reduction are key to preventing this, for example, by enhancing energy efficiency, mitigating carbon emissions by means of green energy and then compensating for remaining GHG emissions by investing in carbon offsets, with a final goal to becoming carbon neutral......

NativeEnergy, which works with individuals and organizations to help them compensate for their contributions to global warming, calculated the «carbon footprint» from producing the film, including all travel, office, and accommodations related emissions.

Certified cleaners typically come in concentrated form, which reduces their carbon footprint by lowering transportation and packaging - related emissions.

The recycling and refurbishment of relocatable buildings is one of the most sustainable methods of construction — helping to reduce carbon emissions, waste sent to landfill, and improving a building's carbon footprint.

As a typical American, each year, you're responsible for approximately 20 tons of carbon dioxide emissions — otherwise known as your carbon footprint (and a mighty big one compared to those of the citizens of most other countries).