Sentences with phrase «energy food resources»

«When it comes to being hunters, being reliant on high - energy food resources in marginal environments, Neanderthals were the extreme.»

Not exact matches

Commenting on the continuing improved trade between Canada and the Philippines, the Philippine Ambassador to Canada, Francisco Benedicto, said the main industry sectors of opportunity for Canadian businesses are advanced technology products and services, energy and natural resources, and agriculture and food products.

Asia, a major driver of global economic growth, is both a source of competitive imports but increasingly an important destination for exports for the Canadian economy, a growing market for resource - based commodities but also agri - food products, specialized manufactures, financial and other services and, potentially, energy.

This is a tailwind for our Global Resources Fund (PSPFX), which maintains heavy exposure in the industries that India will increasingly need to support its more than 1.25 billion (and counting) citizens: oil and gas, chemicals, energy services and infrastructure, precious metals and food.

APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

Many modern people are detaching themselves, consciously or unconsciously, from their primal roots, from the origins of their existence: the earth and its natural resources, self - renewing sources of food, raw materials, energy, and so on.

If the problem on which we focus is food production, we will not have the resources to deal with crises in energy production.

Some forty years hence, eight or more billion human beings will have to co-exist on this small planet and will have to find energy, food and other resources to maintain their societies.

For example, the preservation of the human beings and the biosphere (Objectives C and D) depends upon a mutual web of causal interconnections between different species on earth — e.g., the nature of the food chain, material resources, energy fluxes, ecosystem dynamics, etc..

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Our solutions improve food safety, are made with less energy and resources, and help reduce waste.

ITW Food Equipment Group brands build high performance, commercial food equipment that provides superior energy and resource efficieFood Equipment Group brands build high performance, commercial food equipment that provides superior energy and resource efficiefood equipment that provides superior energy and resource efficiency.

Food production consumes significant land, water, energy and other resources, but as much as 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eaFood production consumes significant land, water, energy and other resources, but as much as 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eafood produced in the United States is never eaten.

«ITW Food Equipment Group has always been strongly committed to energy and resource efficiency, and our partnership with ENERGY STAR over the last 11 years has been a reflection of this,» said Lei Schlitz, Executive Vice President, ITW Food Equipment energy and resource efficiency, and our partnership with ENERGY STAR over the last 11 years has been a reflection of this,» said Lei Schlitz, Executive Vice President, ITW Food Equipment ENERGY STAR over the last 11 years has been a reflection of this,» said Lei Schlitz, Executive Vice President, ITW Food Equipment Group.

Also, growing food requires many resources, including water and energy.

Food is not fixed in time, yet we have been poor managers of our resources over the years as human civilization has progressed and today stand at a situation where sustaining our biggest source of energy has transformed into our biggest problem coupled with environmental degradation.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

The theme of this year's exhibition and technical program — resource efficiency — will be showcased through topics such as optimizing production processes, reducing energy and water consumption, and minimizing food loss through ingredient, process and package technology.

The earth has limited supplies of natural mineral, energy, water and food resources essential for human survival and maintaining lifestyles.

Food group and beverage giant Danone and Veolia, the global resource management group, have announced an innovative strategic partnership focusing on the water cycle, waste management, sustainable agriculture and energy efficiency, to meet the challenge of climate change.

With the worldwide growth of processed food and beverages markets, the demands of our customers regarding the quality and variety of products are becoming increasingly stringent: lean, flowing processes, higher yield of the input raw materials coupled with efficient use of energy, environment and resources.

Increased consumer awareness towards low caloric food across the globe has changed consumer preferences for food resources which have low carbohydrates and offer high energy.

Natural resources, such as water, soil, and energy are required to grow and transport food, which are conserved when food is not wasted.

Snacking on healthy foods like carrot or celery sticks and fruit is good for keeping up the endless resources of energy you need.

In addition, through warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose, Waldorf students are uniquely equipped to address the global challenges facing their generation — issues of renewable energy, climate change, food quality, wildlife conservation, and preserving our natural resources.

The Green Guide used 12 criteria for rating green hospitals: 1) siting, 2) water efficiency, 3) energy and air pollutions, 4) materials and resources, 5) indoor environmental quality, 6) healthy hospital food, 7) green education, 8) procurement, 9) contaminants, 10) green cleaning, 11) waste reduction, and 12) healing gardens.

The concept has a holistic approach and combines a variety of innovative technologies, such as energy positive homes, renewable energy, energy storage, door - step high - yield organic food production, vertical farming aquaponics / aeroponics, water management and waste - to - resource systems.

«Our project is to make Ghana a regional production and manufacturing centre, by weaving together our numerous natural resources, such as our food produce, extensive cash crops, gold, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa and beyond,» he explained.

Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS Community, projected to reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»

As director of SU's sustainability education, May «works with professors and students from all disciplines, as well as with staff in energy management, food services, parking and transportation, buildings and grounds, and waste management to promote understanding and research about the university as a whole system of resources and best practices,» according to a university webpage.

Craig Just's research interests vary widely from freshwater mussels and how they mitigate nitrogen contamination to water resources, food security and energy system design and implementation in resource - constrained communities.

To avoid its own collapse, humankind must instead seek to maintain wealth and resources, in large part by shifting to more durable, localized economies — especially in food and energy production.

«However, we can get huge returns by moving from carbon - intensive resources to renewable, sustainable technologies to produce the chemicals we need for food and energy.»

Cities themselves consume resources, including food, timber, water and energy, harvested over vastly wider areas than the land that they physically occupy, and this greater footprint needs to be considered in any overall assessment to get a true picture.

The study is also in keeping with the theme of the challenge «Sustainable Resources: Food, Energy, and Water,» which will develop strategies that link optimized agricultural practices, water management, and energy prodEnergy, and Water,» which will develop strategies that link optimized agricultural practices, water management, and energy prodenergy production

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

Though there is no single universally recognised definition, the Nexus Approach is a strategy that acknowledges the interdependencies of environmental resources, notably water, energy and food, and considers not the individual components but the influencing factors on the broadest scale.

Part of the $ 150 billion, 10 - year expenditure — the centerpiece of his energy plan — is to develop these resources as well as shift ethanol production from corn to cellulose - based sources that do not affect the food supply.

«What it says is that even at a well - resourced, large referral center, about a third of families are reporting food, housing or energy insecurity six months into treatment,» says lead author Kira Bona, MD, MPH, a pediatric oncologist at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's.

In any food chain, energy flow alternates; in odd - linked systems, plants will be limited by resources available to them (top - down control); in even - linked systems, plants will be limited by grazers (bottom - up control).

The latter two countries struggle to provide adequate food and water resources, and India increased its energy consumption by almost 50 percent between 1992 and 2001.

With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, engineers and scientists are looking for ways to meet the increasing demand for food without also increasing the strain on natural resources, such as water and energy — an initiative known as the food - water - energy nexus.

A different group of bacteria, also relying on the phytoplankton for food and energy, appear to compete with the diatoms for the precious vitamin, and all three groups of microbes are competing for iron, which, due to the extreme remoteness of the Southern Ocean, is a scarce and consequently invaluable resource.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

Specifically, they examined how growing, processing and transporting food, food sales and service, and household storage and use take a toll on resources in the form of energy use, water use and GHG emissions.

They are rich in resources and provide people with food, energy, and a stable climate.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.

Eating easy - to - digest food combinations frees up a lot of energy resources that can be used for other purposes besides digestion (healing, workouts, dancing, having fun!)