Sentences with phrase «consuming more resources»

Granted, there may be products that can help us to green our world, such as a compost bin, a home solar power or wind energy system, or a cleaner car or a bicycle, and there are certainly greener alternatives that we can choose when buying products we already use, but for the most part, consuming more resources in the name of Earth Day runs counter to the core of the responsible environmentalism.

And having kids usually leads to consuming more resources like water, electricity, and gasoline.

Although it might consume more resources in the development stage, customized design has a measurable impact that leads to higher levels of interaction and greater returns.

When you live in a country that consumes more resources than just about any other country, «that's a considerable amount of 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.

And if you have a marathon gym session, you'll consume more resources (think calories) that could have been used for something more productive (like rest and recovery).

Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.»

A simple test when American children enter public schools would identify those that are difficult to educate and thus would consume more resources.

Clearly the average migrant consumes more resources in the United States than he did in his home country.

Badly designed and constructed buildings consume more resources in the long run because they don't last and require a lot of maintenance and energy, whether there's an earthquake or not.

As poor countries and their people move out of poverty, though, they will have a greater impact on the land they occupy, and will consume more resources and produce more emissions and waste, just as the rich world does today.

Not exact matches

Pepperdata's technology is essentially a sort - of real - time analytics tool intended to help a company's IT operations staff better track and improve the performance of modern - day software apps so they more efficiently consume computer hardware resources, like CPU and RAM usage, explained Suchter.

There are more resources on link building than any one person could ever consume on their own being published by the search marketing community on a daily basis.

In fact, dying with obscene wealth represents unused potential, and signals that you could have used more resources to make the world a better place while you were here on earth (on the other hand, it also signals that you produced more than you consumed while you were here on earth, which has a certain nobility to it).

But, as the congressional report points out, the U.S., though it has only 5 to 6 per cent of the world's population, consumes more than 40 per cent of the world's total food and non-food resources — most of it imported.

The USA has significant material needs, like, for example, oil (the USA, which is 5 % of world's population, consumes more than 25 % of world's oil and other resources).

Or are we instead the global hegemon — the Rome of the modern world — throwing our military weight around, pursuing economic excess while parsimonious in our generosity, demonstrating indifference to how our actions negatively affect other nations and consuming far more of the world's resources than we should?

«The planet has increasingly rare resources so we have to consume more ethically, more fairly,» Ducasse said.

It is important to continue to build support networks and resources that speak to a range of culturally diverse communities in order to make them more widely accessible, consumed, and beneficial.»

«Sustainability research and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.

«The people of the region consume more renewable natural resources than the region produces,» said Prof. Markus Fischer (Switzerland), co-chair of the Europe and Central Asia assessment with Prof. Mark Rounsevell (UK), «Although this is somewhat off - set by higher biocapacities in Eastern Europe and northern parts of Western and Central Europe.»

After a breakup, the parties move into smaller, individual households, which means more land used, and more resources consumed per person.

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

In fact, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per calorie.

In fact, the more muscle you have on your frame, the better your body is at burning calories because muscle tissue is metabolic and helps to consume stored energy resources like fat.

Part - time postgraduate students consume fewer university resources to support their study; they, and sometimes their employers, are more likely to provide the resources for their study.

With challenging classes, dedicated and knowledgeable teachers, and able, motivated peers from all kinds of backgrounds, it's reasonable to ask whether exam schools consume more than their share of scarce financial resources.

An indisputable fact is that humanity has ever consumes more natural resources than the planet can replenish.

Since little has been done concurrent with high stakes accountability to actually support and improve schools with resources and innovative services, the result has been a policy environment where the tests have consumed more and more of the curriculum.

More than 40 downstate superintendents have asked Koch to delay PARCC testing, saying «the testing initiative has moved too fast, is ill - planned, does not support the basic tenets of quality formative assessment such as validity and reliability, is consuming vast and valuable resources (both human and monetary) at the district level, and, most importantly, will not truly benefit our students.»

From manufacturing, through customer use to end - of - life recycling, each element of the life cycle has been analysed with a view to consuming fewer natural resources, using more sustainable materials and minimising waste.

There is a resource commitment when deciding to publish kids» comics digitally, and it's very time - consuming, but from our perspective it's absolutely worth it and will only become more so as kids increasingly embrace digital reading.

However, it is no problem for a single author to overcome such a restriction and publish, let's say, first 20 titles as the «placeholders» (books that have a few pages, two per month, just to reach the required number)... It is much more wiser to not start such a spiral, because, as every conflict, it consumes resources on both sides of the ghetto wall you propose to build.

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.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

Thanks to improvements in medical care, people are not just living longer, but consuming more and more medical resources as they age.

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.

Resource management is a big part of that — your residents will consume food, ammo, materials, medicine, and more as time goes on, and a large portion of your time will be spent scavenging or doing errands for the resources you need.

Placing barriers and turrets consume resources, as the stage progresses however you can collect more resources to strengthen your defense.

Sure, it is more time consuming, but as we've written before, indie game designers do not have the resources to create a long lasting game series with many trials.

The style we have in our Ebook is loose and sketchy, meaning using them will make the video much more time and resource consuming.

and for what: for the sake of more money, money, money, money and more power and many privileges to conspicuously consume Earth's limited resources now, come what may for our children and coming generations.

In a world where people are consuming increasingly more resources (including carbon) per capita, it only seems logical that to make significant improvements to the earth's natural environment we must address consumption AND population.

If anything, these small homes may end up using up more resources because of the extra consumed by in - home conflict.

If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we «free wheelers and dealers» desire.

After my single, not - so - great generation finishes the «missions» (ie, fools» errands) the leading, self - proclaimed «masters of the universe» among us have set before the human community, what resources will be left for our children to consume; how many more billions of people will have to share what remains of Earth's depleted and debased resources; where will they find clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, adequate soil for planting?

First... we are already consuming 1.5 times more than the earth is able to renew... we need to reduce our resource draw by 33 %.

If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we desire.

U.S. should use 4.5 % of resources (per capita numbers are similar for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, etc.) Ergo, 80 % reduction just to fit into a just social milieu allowing others to consume more.

I had a passing thought that these changes might reflect the broader prospect that — when pushed by economic forces, at least — human behavior can shift in ways that can consume resources more parsimoniously even as life improves.