Sentences with phrase «energy efforts instead»

Officials such as County Legislator Bridget Fleming joined their state and county colleagues in urging the department to eliminate the waters off Long Island from the proposed program and to endorse renewable energy efforts instead for the state and region.

Not exact matches

Instead of evaluating the decision based solely on the percentage of payroll costs it will save, consider how much of your time, energy and management efforts will be saved and what that would mean for your business.

Instead of putting our efforts toward renewables and energy storage, we continue to subsidize our oil and gas industry.

I would think, if it were possible to ask her, that Mother Teresa would prefer energy not be wasted on her, and instead effort and money (lighting it IS costly) be made on behalf of the poor and suffering.

Instead of holding them accountable for effort, and benching them for younger players that will give that effort and energy, he accepts the subpar performance and it translates to losses.

Instead, the WFP has concentrated its efforts on flipping the Senate into Democratic hands — something Cuomo pledged to support when he cut an endorsement deal with the WFP back in May, but to which he has not yet visibly dedicated much energy.

He's said he would work to create accessible waterfront areas in each neighborhood, and additionally supports efforts to reallocate city funds away from fossil fuel companies and instead towards renewable clean energy sources.

What is shaping up instead, officials said, is a set of cooperative measures on a range of measures that will include promises of technical assistance from the United States and financing for renewable energy efforts through export credit agencies and the Overseas Private Investment Corp..

He claims that preliminary measurements of how muscle groups work in people using his shovel instead of a conventional one show that his design saves a lot of energy: it can, he says, reduce the effort of shifting a truckload of mulch by at least 30 per cent.

So, instead of taking matters into your own hands, why not spend the time, energy and effort to build something meaningful?

Why wouldn't an author focus more effort and energy on getting his first book into the hands of readers instead of forging ahead with a sequel before a large fan base has even had the chance to discover the first book?

If the energy of this litigation effort went into selling books instead... well, did I mention satirical opera, Mr. Prokofiev?

Effort: Instead of spreading our efforts across several platforms, we opted to focus our energy on only one to maximize the returns.

Instead, CenterPoint said, it will continue several consumer education and outreach efforts on various energy - assistance programs, as well as urging Congress to increase funding for assistance.

It seems to me that instead of putting efforts into restricting coal use in the third world, the efforts would be better spent on methods to encourage R&D to reduce the cost of cleaner energy generation to be competitive with coal.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

The flaw being that one thought one could address the climate threat by a combination emissions reductions, renewable energy use increase, and conservation efforts because we mistakenly thought the CO2 we emitted would stay in the atmosphere for a relatively short time - under 50 - 100 years, instead of the 500 and above years we now know a significant portion stays in the atmosphere.

Clémence Hutin, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «These negotiations should have been about ramping up the EU's climate efforts for 2030, instead we are risking a decade of inaction.

Instead, the lead funders on energy policy lent their considerable weight to the deregulation effort stage - managed by Enron.

However, instead of recognizing the effort by tech companies to produce enough power to meet the demand of their data facilities, Chesser cites the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research to lambast these companies for «misleading claims.»

In an effort to stabilize the climate, world governments have enacted thousands of regulations designed to suppress the use of hydrocarbon energy and instead promote the use of renewable energy.

Instead of attempting to throttle the economic growth of western civilization I believe efforts should be concentrated on developing more efficient energy sources such as exploiting our plentiful natural gas reserves.

NRDC is pushing back against an effort to undermine New England states» renewable energy laws and prop up polluting energy instead.

Instead, CEO Ivan Glasenberg argued that demand for low cost energy would trump efforts to prevent dangerous global warming.

Rather than block these efforts to give customers more control over their energy consumption, utilities should instead work with solar advocates to clarify that the South is open for solar financing businesses.

Instead of discouraging productive effort, initiative and investment as other tax burdens do, a tax on carbon pollution raises the cost of harmful activity and thereby encourages efficiency and renewable energy.

Instead, he called for efforts to make clean technology cheap enough to compete with traditional energy sources.

The PUCO has missed yet another opportunity to focus the company on real efforts to modernize our electric grid and invest in new, clean energy technologies and instead has forced customers to pay up for unwise investments in outdated coal and nuclear plants,» said Dan Sawmiller, Senior Campaign Representative for Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.

In a letter to leaders of the effort to enact climate and energy legislation, Graham wrote, «I want to bring to your attention what appears to be a decision by the Obama Administration and Senate Democratic leadership to move immigration instead of energy.

Instead of shying away from new hires with a different background, age or energy level, make an effort to befriend new employees.