Sentences with phrase «carbon footprint without»

In less than 10 years, Uruguay has slashed its carbon footprint without government subsidies or higher consumer costs.

You can't erase a carbon footprint without placing a perhaps larger more visible footprint in the form of changed vistas, increased inconvenience and increased energy consciousness.

This holiday in the Riviera Maya, enjoy a visionary home in Puerto Aventuras that leaves a minimal carbon footprint without compromising on style and sophistication.

Nicorene is an eco-friendly establishment in Durban that strives to reduce their carbon footprint without detracting from excellent service delivery in a nature setting.

Saying ebooks have a lower carbon footprint without providing any data to back that up is as a trustworthy statement as its very opposite.

Riello UPS was the first UPS manufacturer to implement the Eco Energy Level — this minimises energy operating costs and carbon footprint without compromising the resilience of the devices.

Not exact matches

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.

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

So too do a growing number of well - funded start - ups trying to make meat without animals, with a view to addressing concerns about animal welfare and the carbon footprint of meat.

If you have decided not to cloth diaper, but still would like to reduce your carbon footprint, here are some diapers to help you do just that, without the extra laundry loads.

Osborne had become determined to deal with the «green crap» that was making British industry uncompetitive — and all without reducing the world's carbon footprint.

Sending an email across the Atlantic Ocean does not burn any jet fuel, but the internet is not without its own, huge carbon footprint

Millions of future commuters could have a much smaller carbon footprint, without even knowing it.

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.

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.»

CEO John Chambers vowed in 2008 to reduce Cisco's carbon footprint by 25 % by 2012 without invoking carbon offsets.

Just be mindful of your carbon footprint: you can donate old cell phones in drop - off bins and take outworn computers, printers and appliances to special recycling areas that will dispose of them without wreaking further havoc on the planet.

I march to a different drum in the fact, that I don't own a car, make do without leaving a carbon footprint on the planet when possible, have fun just being outside...

(In French, Spanish and English with subtitles) No Impact Man (Unrated) Back - to - nature documentary chronicling the effort of a family living in lower Manhattan to minimize the size of its carbon footprint by eating only locally - grown food and by living for a year without a car, electrical appliances, toilet paper or many other modern conveniences.

In this year's twelve pack we have Turtles Can Fly director Bahman Ghobadi making a more docu carbon footprint with A Flag Without a Country, we have The Last King of Scotland «s Kevin Macdonald and his fiction - non-fiction balancing act continue with Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo - Qiang) and finally a Sundance Lab participant we have the crazy kidnapping / escape story of The Lovers and the Despot by docu - helmers Robert Cannan and Ross Adam.

«Digital publishing should be cheaper [than print comics] as the carbon footprint is absent without the loss of trees and the cost of transportation,» he said.

Arena Island allows you to kick off your shoes, step into luxurious island living without the guilt of leaving carbon footprints behind.

Lower your carbon footprint — without compromise to luxury or style!

What's more, the resort is Advanced ECO Certified, which means you can enjoy your scuba dive holiday without worrying about your carbon footprint.

They're actually playing out the tradition that was started by the 19th - century landscape painters, [placing] the observer in a position of domination and control of nature, without much thought to the carbon footprint or any of the consequences.»

Advocates say the carbon footprint of bioplastics is better than fossil fuel - derived alternatives, which is true, but as «Life Without Plastic» points out, there's the added issue of supporting genetically modified corn production, which currently provides most material for bioplastics.

With Google Earth on your phone, you can head over to an airport and feel like you're traveling the globe without actually creating the massive carbon footprint that traveling tends to have.

The session will look at measuring asset owner exposure to CO ₂ — the methods, data challenges and uses associated with this, as well as how carbon footprints can be reduced without increasing investment risk or reducing returns.

The authors say: «Without accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated at 3.3 Gigatonnes [billion tonnes] of CO2 equivalent: as such, food wastage ranks as the third top emitter after the USA and China.

No business can operate without a carbon footprint.

Like a vegetarian who will eat anything without a face, the leaders — U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto — are willing to nibble at anything that makes electricity without leaving a carbon footprint.

In 10 years, without sacrificing their way of life, the Jones family eliminates the CO2 emissions that their home and transportation used to create — the bulk of their carbon footprint.

Beyond our internal carbon footprint reductions, our solar rooftop systems and power plants operate without generating greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore our customers» use of SunPower systems avoids many times the amount of greenhouse gases generated in their own manufacturing and delivery operations.

Tetra Pak, and many of the companies that use them, are certainly quick to claim a variety of green credentials for the packaging — namely, that it is recyclable, comes from Forest Stewardship Council (FCS) approved materials, cuts carbon footprints by allowing juice (and other foods) to be stored for longer without refrigeration, and is shaped in a way that allows for closer packing and therefore more efficient transportation.

As a group our aim was to examine whether we can substantially reduce America's carbon footprint by reaching the 20 - percent wind benchmark without sacrificing our broader energy goals of reliability, affordability and reduced wildlife and environmental impacts.

I sold them on how reducing your carbon footprint (without using that term) can save you cash (not to mention saving the planet).

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

Few refugees from Iraq, Darfur, Zimbabwe manage to get all the way to Britain without a large carbon footprint, neither can tourists from beyond Europe.

I would add that tiny houses can also improve urban density without altering the built infrastructure, and they can improve an existing household's bottom - line operating cost and minimize its carbon footprint.

Lets see them talk about carbon footprints after they have been denied computers, air conditioning, guns to defend themselves, food grown without pesticides, no modern medicine, etc..

As of July 1st, NYC's Village Pourhouse has become eco-serious, taking a pledge to implement practices that will reduce their carbon footprint, without sacrificing the fun factor, and did I mention there's going to be a party?

Home solar is a great option for getting to a lower carbon footprint, but a grid - tied solar array without any energy storage isn't the be-all and end - all solution, as a grid power outage will affect solar and non-solar homeowners alike.

says you'll be forced to: Address living well without modern so - called conveniences; think about «which expenses actually make me happy and improve my family's quality of life» and which ones «just eat away at my time and money»; and, importantly (it is Climate Week, even though really every week is climate week, recognized or not), start really thinking about what your carbon footprint is really like.

The irony here is that having a planet of travellers comes with a much larger carbon footprint, and as Rand writes, «we'll never go without long distance air travel... it's part of the glue that makes us a global community.»

In his book» Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air» David JC MacKay has a detailed presentation of the carbon footprints of air travel.

Finally, activists are castigated for not reducing their own carbon footprint, without presenting any evidence for this, although there are many who have done so.

Some large IT companies in India are taking the lead to reduce their carbon footprints by enabling their employees to commute by public transport, without the usual delays, discomforts and dangers