Sentences with phrase «cycle of cement»

Further emissions savings can be achieved by taking into account the overall life cycle of cement, concrete and the built environment.

Not exact matches

Not only do we need these kinds of business «construction workers» who can cement the business infrastructure, but we also need those who know how to properly and effectively dismantle a business without the major economic disruptions we see in our «boom and bust» cycles.

Michael McSweeney, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada Andrée - Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President and Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Joe Nemeth, President and CEO, Catalyst Paper Corporation Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Derek Nighbor, CEO, Forests Products Association of Canada Robert Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources John Risley, Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Clearwater Fine Foods Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power Vicky Sharpe, Founding President, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Scott Skinner, Executive Director, Clean Foundation Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Ilse Treunicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District Scott Vaughan, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development Annette Verschuren, CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

Republican leaders in the chamber said the move cements Felder's ties to their conference ahead of an election cycle where the balance of power in the chamber is in play.

Increasing levels of ozone, in turn, trap more heat, exacerbating the urban heat island effect: Cities are normally about five to 10 degrees hotter than surrounding suburbs because asphalt and cement absorb sunlight, generating a vicious cycle of escalating pollution and heat.

I've never been a huge fan of cycling classes, and I've always found pedaling away on an elliptical while staring at a cement wall and listening to the same Taylor Swift song on repeat to be a little soul - sucking.

Currently the best - selling Wii U game is Mario Kart 8 with around 5.5 million copies sold but if Super Mario Maker continues at this pace it seems likely that it could quickly become the best - selling title of the Wii U generation, cementing the fact that this game should have been a launch title instead of something released three years into the Wii U cycle.

Traders also tend to feel revenge after a loss, and they carry out this revenge by jumping back into the market to try and make back the money they just loss, which of course usually only leads to more losses, thus further cementing the cycle of bad trading habits.

Second, i begrudging accept nuclear despite it not being emissions free on a life cycle basis... There's a lot of cement involved.

And obviously excessive staus seeking cements in a desire for continued fossil fuel burning as this has itself made materialism and status seeking more prevalent, in a vicious kind of self reinforcing cycle particularly noticeable after the industrial revolution.

Idrovo Aguirre, Byron and Contreras, Javier (2015): Back - splicing of cement production and characterization of its economic cycle: The case of Chile (1991 - 2015).

Now the total gross input of CO2 into the atmosphere each year according to my old global carbon cycle chart is 157.1 gtC per year of which 5.5 comes from fossil fuels and cement (3.5 %) which is where the 3 % number John mentioned comes from.