Sentences with phrase «energy and food»

Unless the one - time expenditure was sizeable, it would be seen as extremely «cheap» in the current environment of high energy and food prices.

We have the technology to educate people to the best of their abilities and to ensure steady and sure amounts of energy and food for a certain amount of people at a certain level.

The core inflation rate — a better gauge of where prices are going because it excludes volatile energy and food items — has dropped to a 44 - year low of 0.9 %.

«The problems of energy and food production can be solved,» he told me.

That authentic investigation links learner interests and passions to real community concerns - racism, pollution, poverty, sustainability in energy and food, education, and health.

Smaller employers are imagining very specific scenarios in which energy and food costs soar.

That's difficult because the consumer price basket is influenced by volatile items such as energy and food.

The oceans affect weather and climate by interacting strongly with the atmosphere, and provide immense energy and food resources as well as recreation and transportation benefits to society.

The poor are disproportionately impacted by higher energy and food prices because they must spend more of their income on them.

Because they pay a larger portion of their incomes on energy and food, elderly, minority and poor families are especially vulnerable and will suffer greatly.

This energy requirement increase is even more significant during lactation and reaches its peak at approximately three weeks after delivery, when energy and food intake can be three to four times above maintenance.

It is about building earthquake proof buildings; designing distributed, resilient energy and food systems, and investing in social capital so that neighbors can help each other when they need to.

Thus, foods with a lot of calories (fatty foods, for instance) contain a lot of potential energy and foods with a fewer calories (green beans) contain less.

In fact, the very reason why taste exists is to enable us to make the difference between foods that are nourishing and provide energy and foods that could harm our health if ingested.

Of course we hope that legislators and bankers will figure out how to fix the global financial system, so we can continue working towards sustainable energy and food solutions.

The current worry is that high energy and food prices will get worse as our world continues to grow, and that poverty will increase as some can't buy necessities.

In this Insight we highlight some of the key ways that climate change might impact African wildlife and farming systems, and the interacting pressures on water, energy and food resources.

It is vital for human and ecosystem health, the production of energy and food, industrial and commercial activities, and maintaining healthy and vibrant communities.

Waiting for clarity, while comforting to some, is unlikely to be the wisest policy on issues like energy and food sufficiency (or avoiding the next act of large - scale terrorism).

In the past, it's been a give and take: North Korea has agreed to take certain steps to dismantle its nuclear facilities in return for energy and food aid.

Meantime, core CPI (which excludes energy and food)- came in at 1.4 percent, also above forecasts of 1.3 percent.

The department did report, however, that so - called core CPI — which excludes volatile energy and food components — climbed 0.2 percent to bring its year - on - year gain to 2.1 percent, its largest advance since February 2017.

In other words, headline measures are being distorted lower by declining energy and food prices, declines that aren't reflective of any economic shortfall.

How will the world meet the growing energy and food demands of a population projected to approach nine billion in 2050?

taking cues from the citys eco-density charter, and in particular, it's new laneway housing initiatives, the harvest green project proposes to overlay a new «green energy and food web» across the numerous residential neighborhoods and laneways within the city as these communities address future increased densification.

«The burgeoning human population needs energy and food — unfortunately, nitrogen pollution is an unintended consequence and not even the open ocean is immune from our daily industrial activities,» said Karl.

Inflation data published last week showed the headline personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation index hit a 2 per cent annual pace in the year to March and the Fed's preferred underlying measure, the core PCE which excludes volatile energy and food items, rose to 1.9 per cent.

And indeed here in the United States we look at a range of different measures of core inflation, for example, that take energy and food prices out of the overall index.

But because oil prices have tanked so much and they're thought to be set on global markets — so not really under the Fed's control — recently they've been targeting the core PCE (sans energy and food prices).

Combined energy and food expenditures (in nominal dollars) grew 6.2 % year - over-year in January 2018 — near a six - year high.

It was a magical trip; the weather was amazing, the city buzzed with positive energy and the food... oh the food.

Green Alliance advocates Britain take a more activist stance on energy and food conservation, alongside greater spending on renewable energy production, to protect against further price shocks and the volatility that always seems to send prices up rather than down.

As they rise from the ocean's depths, megaplumes may bring energy and food to animals in shallow water.

If we don't have to extract oil out of the ground to run cars or if we're using anaerobic digestion to make green electricity, we're enhancing energy and food security.»

A set of chemical reactions can be said to be «collectively autocatalytic» if a number of those reactions produce, as reaction products, catalysts for enough of the other reactions that the entire set of chemical reactions is self sustaining given an input of energy and food molecules.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

«Climate change, energy and food insecurity, biodiversity loss and water shortages all have raised the stakes,» said Jianguo «Jack» Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and CSIS director.

Metabolism is your body's internal process that turns whatever food you eat into usable energy and any food that is not used for energy is stored as fat.

At the same time she is encouraged to reduce carbohydrates and avoid sugar, recommendations that are typical for treating PCOS, but in the case of someone with HA, further exacerbating an already established energy and food group deficit.

Although consumers appear to be getting back on track with timelier loan payments, the ABA believes that rising energy and food costs may impact consumer's ability to continue paying their bills on time in the coming months.

St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday that stripping energy and food costs from inflation measurements may understate inflation.

Core inflation is most often calculated by taking the Consumer Price Index and excluding certain items (usually energy and food products).

I like to hedge my living expenses by investing in energy and food companies.