Sentences with phrase «conserving environmental resources»

What started as a small group interested in launching a Green Team has grown into a corporate - wide philosophy of community involvement, local economic success and conserving environmental resources.

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Inputs should be reduced by reuse, recycling and efficient management of materials and energy in order to maintain and improve environmental quality and conserve resources.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disEnvironmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disenvironmental management, including pest and disease control.

Environmental attributes rank high as necessary features of sustainable winegrowing with respondents citing integrated pest management (85 %), conserving water (79 %) and protecting natural resources (77 %) as defining attributes of sustainability.

Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»

We are firmly committed to working with every sector of the environmental community and business community to ensure that the plan enacted by the Governor continues to reduce redundant regulations and enhances our ability to conserve our natural resources and beauty.»

She notes that corporate leaders, who she considers one of her main audiences, may not have extensive knowledge about the importance of climate adaptation, yet they are often open to problem - solving and exploring creative solutions to environmental problems, conserving resources, and protecting infrastructure and people.

WHEN appeals to an environmental conscience can not motivate governments to conserve their natural resources, a swift kick in the wallet may.

After all, turning faucets can be mildly inconvenient and if science has taught him anything, it's that our planet is doing just fine when it comes to conserving its natural resources and its long - term environmental prospects.

This section also measures whether a company's products or services are designed to solve an environmental issue, including products that aid in the provision of renewable energy, conserve resources, reduce waste, promote land / wildlife conservation, prevent toxic / hazardous substance or pollution, or educate, measure, or consult to solve environmental problems.

Secondly, according to environmental historians, the first campaigns to conserve natural resources and save wilderness occurred in the late nineteenth century (such as John Muir's Sierra Club to protect Yosemite in 1892), and a few people were writing on the subject before that, such as Henry Thoreau («in Wildness is the preservation of the world,» - from Walden).

In adopting the Florida Endangered and Threatened Species Act, (ETSA) the Legislature declared that the «State of Florida harbors a wide diversity of fish and wildlife and it is the policy of this state to conserve and wisely manage these resources, with particular attention to those species defined by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Department of Environmental Protection, or the United States Department of Interior as being endangered or threatened.»

Introduced in 2004, the Florida Green Lodging Program is a voluntary initiative of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that designates and recognizes lodging facilities that make a commitment to conserve and protect Florida's natural resources.

Fostering Creativity and Culture by promoting the arts, advancing education, supporting cultural institutions and innovative projects with cutting edge talent; Promoting Wellbeing, supporting initiatives on women's empowerment, access to health and education and assisting the advancement and development of young people and communities; and Conserving Natural Resources through water sustainability and environmental projects to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

The Green Technology Pilot Program allows applications relating to improving environmental quality, conserving energy, developing renewable energy resources, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions to... Read More.

Support and encourage restorative practices that reduce environmental impacts, conserve natural resources and protect biodiversity.

Exelon's political operations may impact the company's ability to show that a merger with Pepco would provide a tangible benefit to customers on the criteria of conserving natural resources and preserving environmental quality — two factors that must be considered in the District of Columbia.

Exelon's history of anti-renewable energy campaigning makes it difficult to argue that the Exelon - Pepco merger would conserve natural resources and preserve environmental quality.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

The controversy surrounding environmental policy has, perhaps surprisingly, arisen not so much from the issue of conserving non-renewable commodities such as fossil fuels or industrial metals, but from the increasing scarcity or overuse of renewable natural resources, causing problems such as water and air pollution, or damage to global commons such as the atmosphere or the ozone layer.