Sentences with phrase «consuming less resources»

We can overcome the social roadblocks to living simply and make our lives satisfying and culturally rich while consuming less resources.

Not exact matches

Such withdrawals aren't subject to review by the compact's governing bodies, the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body, as long as the withdrawal consumes less than 5 million gallons daily.

While fracking typically consumes less water than farming or residential uses, the exploration method is increasing competition for the precious resource, driving up the price of water and burdening already depleted aquifers and rivers in certain drought - stricken stretches.

The result is less solid waste with fewer resources consumed.

An international chemical and advanced materials company, Solvay assists its customers in innovating, developing and delivering high - value, sustainable products and solutions which consume less energy and reduce CO2 emissions, optimize the use of resources and improve the quality of life.

We suggest that this is because poverty - related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks.

Researchers also study the metabolism of some less - than - natural ecosystems — large cities — in terms of how urban areas consume resources and generate waste.

Second, a house with fewer inhabitants is less energy efficient and consumes more resources per person than one that is home to a larger brood.

Closely related species consume the same resources less often than more remotely related species.

Outside of my core, I have holdings in emerging markets (wild rides there) because that's where the growth potential is; natural resources (another wild ride) because I think that the emerging markets are going to consume more, not less, of them; and a health fund, because I think they'll make money hand - over-fist as the baby boomers start retiring.

Through Tune Hotels.com's «Less Waste, More Earth» pay - as - you - use system of add - ons for air - conditioning, laundered towels and other energy - consuming facilities and amenities, Tune Hotels.com aims to help guests conserve both their funds as well as the earth's resources.

A country that consumes less than it produces will have resources to export.

For fortunate millions of people with super riches to conspicuously consume resources, while billions of less fortunate people go without adequate food to eat, is an unseemingly economic arrangement in need of modification in a timely fashion.

And if we want a decent world in the future for our children and their children's children, we got ta consume less of this world's resources, all of»em.

«Use less power and stop consuming Resources, as we've done for ages.»

Living in a Tiny House carries a much smaller environmental footprint, reduces the amount of resources we as humans consume to live, and encourages us to consume less in general.

However we do definitely know we need to obviously adopt renewable energy and consume a lot less resources per capita.

The more a particular nation consumes, the less available for other communities, the more damaging the consequences for the environment, and the greater the competition for limited and declining energy resources, increasing security risks.

And a lot fewer resources consumed because our new bottle, which was developed by our friends at Ecologic Brands, uses 66 % less plastic than typical 100 oz 2X detergent bottles and closes the recycling loop tight.

Consume less, share more and stand up against fossil fuels, urban sprawl, destructive infrastructures and resource extractivism.

The statement that the public must use less electricity, must travel less, and must consume fewer resources is a statement that the public must expect less of politicians and politics, and behave themselves.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

According to the memo, environmentalists» efforts to combat global warming would realize the environmentalists» «dream of an egalitarian society based on rejection of economic growth in favor of a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equitably.»

Even accounting for the fact that the vast majority of the world's population consumes far, far less than this, natural resources and ecosystem services equal to 1.3 planets are consumed by humans.

Those that spend the least, by and large, consume a lesser amount of the world's many precious and finite resources.

And they don't need to be so selective about it because those on the bottom consume less government resources due to the much lower social welfare and minimum wage.

On the surface, it's not difficult to imagine that we could create a satisfying, culturally rich lifestyle while consuming less fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources.

Remember that if everyone consumed resources like the average American we'd need 4 - point - something planets worth or resources to do so, slightly less if everyone lived like the average European.

This doesn't change the fact that some people live on appallingly little and consume far less than their fair share of resources, but it would be crazy to pursue policies aimed toward making sure that everybody in the world overconsumes to the same degree as I do in America.

One could argue that negotiating several issues at once is less time and resource consuming than negotiating such issues separately, and it can lead to «issue linkage».

This makes sense, because the new OS is built to boot and shut down faster than previous editions, use less memory and disk space, consume fewer combined processor and GPU resources, and accommodate a wider range of devices and screen sizes.

As the quad - core Snapdragon 800 processor running at 2.2 GHz is one of the best in its class, resource - consuming games and apps run smoothly, while saving and rendering images takes less time than the Lumia 1020 which is built around a dual - core processor.

The survey touted cohousing benefits such as sharing resources, borrowing and lending possessions and living lighter on the earth by consuming less.