Sentences with phrase «carbon footprint which»

That's the average American's total carbon footprint which includes the emissions from your home, car, air travel and everything you use.

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His firm's latest investment is in Petros Pace Finance, which specializes in financing commercial properties that want to reduce their carbon footprint.

So Shepherd had to come up with a method for taking the salt out of sea water with boilers and kettles but without incurring the bloated carbon footprint of fossil fuels, which would betray the green ideals of his customer base.

To ensure the fund had a low - carbon footprint, NUBD excludes issuers in sectors having high levels of fossil - fuel reserve ownership — which includes metals miners and oil and gas producers.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to take immediate action to create green jobs and incentivize environmental excellence by reinvesting in projects which actually lower the carbon footprint of our public sector.»

Some Chinese miners are now scouting sites in Canada for their mining operations to take advantage of cheap hydroelectric power, which would have the side benefit of shrinking the carbon footprint of their operations.

All of those produce a higher quality, lower carbon footprint material which is moving the whole industry forward.

Reading breathless media reports about CO2 «pollution» and about minimizing our carbon footprints, one might think that the earth can not have too little CO2, as Simpson thought one couldn't be too thin — a view which was also overstated, as we have seen from the sad effects of anorexia in so many young women.

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

The author advocates a (hyperbolic) «Five Year Plan» in which the whole world ceases its baby - making activities for half a decade in order to counteract the carbon footprint of those would - be carbon - producing feet.

Simone said he wanted to promote the fact that vegetables and pulses are more climate - and human - friendly than animal proteins, which are bad for the health and the production of which leads to environmental degradation and an increased carbon footprint.

Local Real Salt comes from right here in the USA, which means less food miles and a smaller carbon footprint.

Also coming next month in central London will be the first two Otarian restaurants, Britain's first vegetarian chain, which will also calculate its ingredients» carbon footprint and food miles on the menu.

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

Icelandic Glacial is proud to be certified as carbon neutral by The Carbon Neutral Company which independently calculates and verifies our carbon footprint.

This sugar is made without the use of commercial dryers which preserves the natural nutrients and minerals and reduces our carbon footprint.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

This will save First Milk from having to upgrade the old, inefficient plant, reducing their effluent treatment costs and carbon footprint, while cutting operational costs, which are borne by Lake District Biogas.

By Diane Small In trying to reduce their carbon footprints, not all eco hotels are very glamourous: quite often, they and their customers put carbon reduction above comfort, which isn't a bad thing.

The first order of business was to address wastefulness — a top of mind topic for Myint, whose side hustle is a non-profit he runs with Lucky Peach editor - in - chief Chris Ying, ZeroFoodprint, which encourages restaurants to reduce their carbon footprint.

The pledge asks that you commit to eating pulses only once per week for 10 weeks — which will not only decrease your carbon footprint but will also improve your health.

Ensure that guests have all the information needed to bring gifts which will help lower the new babies carbon footprint.

«We will be saving a tremendous amount of power, which will ultimately reduce our carbon footprint, while also producing more high - quality snow for our guests to enjoy.»

Products that are made here in the US also travel a shorter distance to get to us, which means a smaller carbon footprint.

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.

As the Shnuggle basket is made right here in the UK, there are no long journeys from China which reduces our carbon footprint.

At this year's address, Cuomo called New York's offshore wind program — in which the governor has committed to develop up to 2.4 gigawatts of energy by 2030 — «unparallelled,» adding that the program «will create new, high - paying jobs, reduce our carbon footprint, establish a new, reliable source of energy for millions of New Yorkers, and solidify New York's status as a national clean energy leader.»

«We must make sure that the biofuels which we do engage in are sustainable, they get their carbon footprint right and they make real, deliverable, sustainable changes,» NFU president Peter Kendall said.

A realistic energy plan must also address the sectors of transportation and building heating and cooling, each of which account for one - third of the state's carbon footprint, as well as agriculture, which accounts for 10 %.

Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created by the league in 2010 to address the effects of climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.

In the future, if China's households save less, more of the country's money will be spent on services and everyday goods, which have a smaller aggregate 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.

Such an approach could shrink the carbon footprint of buildings, which consume nearly half of all energy in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Southern spent $ 14 million in lobbying related to climate change that year, while PG&E, which openly backed cap - and - trade legislation, spent $ 27 million and had a carbon footprint 40 times smaller than Southern.

«Short - term, many carbon footprint estimates currently available are probably too low, which is clearly bad news for the industry.

Specifically, they examined the carbon footprint of anaerobic digestion — composting organics without air — which can be used to redirect methane into a usable energy source.

Indeed, given his very high profile remarks questioning climate change and the science upon which it is based, I think we can safely assume he doesn't lose any sleep over his consumption habits or the size of his carbon footprint.

Studying each product's carbon footprint is a way to assess its social, environmental and economic impact — in other words how sustainable it is — which Ankathi says is «defined as helping current generations without compromising their needs or the needs of future generations.»

«If you just count miles and not true energy use, you can get people paying more money for something that's actually going the opposite of what they wanted which is to get a lower carbon footprint,» said Messer.

Users just take a three - minute survey and get back a carbon footprint score, which they can save and update as they work to reduce their impact.

As such, they are easier to transport, which keeps costs down and reduces the carbon footprint of the entire distribution process.

They can also use a different model to calculate the carbon or environmental «footprint» of different activities, which shows by country or region where these environmental impacts are generated.

A new study, which estimates the carbon footprint of burglary prevention measures, has found that the best options from both an environmental and security point of view are door and window locks.

The UC Berkeley researchers found that the primary drivers of carbon footprints are household income, vehicle ownership and home size, all of which are considerably higher in suburbs.

«Our carbon footprint is a very important topic for us, as we are taking the steps to obtain our certification and negotiating with the European market, which is stricter than the Chinese.»

The analysis, published this month in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, stops at actual wine production, which other studies estimate represents roughly 20 % of a bottle's total carbon footprint.

But if that money were more evenly distributed, it could mean slightly bigger carbon footprints for many more people, which would soon add up.

«Humanity's carbon footprint alone more than doubled since the early 1970s, which is when the world went into ecological overshoot.

Each footprint is measured using CO2e, or the carbon dioxide equivalent, which is the standard unit for measuring carbon footprints.

This unnecessarily consumes huge amounts of fossil fuels, which in turn raises our carbon footprint.