Sentences with phrase «carbon footprint before»

2) IWT's have a large initial carbon footprint before becoming operable.

You can calculate and offset your carbon emissions using carbon calculators like the ones on our website, but there are many simple steps to reduce your carbon footprint before you offset it.

He wrote Ells about the Australian beef choice, stating that Texas products would not «leave a substantial carbon footprint before ending up in a Chipotle burrito.»

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Using up the food in your home before you leave for a trip is a great way to diminish your carbon footprint.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

So two years ago, we decided to do what no one had ever done before: measure the size New York City's carbon footprint.

As we have noted before, plastics are solid fossil fuels and have a huge carbon footprint in their production.

As oil prices rise, renewable energy sources become an increasingly attractive option from a purely economic view, even before their minimal carbon footprint is taken into account.

He says in the acknowledgments «I wrote this book as someone who was not thinking about his carbon footprint much before 2001, and who is thinking a lot about it now.»

Before joining ADEME, Romain worked as consultant specialized in industrial and environmental risk management and corporate carbon footprint.

There's a sideswipe at the carbon footprint of middleclass Aga owners; a defence of Greens against the accusation that they're an overwhelmingly middle class movement; and a rather pathetic attempt at a class breakdown of Ryanair customers, before getting down to the main issue — an attack on Spiked and its principal contributors for their agnostic position on global warming.

While many of the newly announced commitments were in fact issued before, part of the White House campaign is designed to reinforce the image that the United States is increasingly serious about making significant reductions in its carbon footprint.

The analysis was launched just days before the Carbon Trust unveils the first four Asian companies to receive the Carbon Trust Standard, its independent label awarded to companies that reduce their organisational carbon footprints year - on - year.

These days more and more music artists are thinking about their «carbon footprint», so it was only a matter of time before a fully fledged eco-studio became a reality.»

Pablo has pondered before on the carbon footprint of tofu and Kelly's weekday vegetarian efforts have featured many delicious tofu recipes.

But it's a big step and shows companies like Dell, who claim to have already reached carbon neutrality but really only neutralizes roughly 5 % of their total emissions, that there's a long way to go before claims of knowing a real footprint can be made.

The task before us is to convince the former to surrender their fossil energy profligate lifestyle and adopt an extremely low carbon footprint lifestyle, and to convince the latter to reduce their aspirations to live like the former.

Before the partisan framing sets in, the Tyee Solutions Society thought it might be useful to stand back and consider just what the Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far — what's been learned from its successes and lapses, what informed observers say deserves rethinking and what the rival suitors for our support in the coming election have revealed about which elements of the pioneering plan to zero out B.C.'s carbon footprint they may scrap or enhance.

I didn't really know much about recycling before and I didn't know what a carbon footprint was.

TreeHugger and Planet Green have looked at the carbon footprint of orange juice before, (Matthew looked at the issue in Think Bottled Water is Bad, Could Bottled Orange Juice Be Even Worse?)

We do go on that flying is dying, and have complained before about the carbon footprint of private jets.

Some start by calculating their carbon footprint to set a benchmark — like a weigh - in before a diet.