Sentences with phrase «energy use habits»

It is possible to take some personal actions, mostly to do with energy use habits, but the vast majority of emissions that you are currently responsible for can't be tackled using any kind of action at a personal level.

I was talking ONLY about a house like most Americans have with American energy use habits completely disconnected from the grid and without any supplements from any other source of energy.

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This habit can cut your individual energy use by up to 70 percent.

«They're voting with their own money, their own habits — that is what's going to change how people use energy in the world.»

Their estimates suggest a population of over 9 billion people and a change in dietary habits, such as increased meat consumption, using more resources such as water, energy and land.

The program offers state - of - the - art vending machines that don't «eat» the change and fail to dispense product (as the current ones have a habit of doing), uses far less energy, increases profits and is easy to use.»

The home is no different, and a Google - enabled smart home of the future, using a platform such as the Google Now app — which already gathers data on users» travel habits — could adapt energy usage to your life in even more sophisticated ways.

A new analysis shows lasting reductions in electricity use among hundreds of players of the Cool Choices game, which uses friendly competition to get energy - saving habits to sink in.

Answer a few questions about your transportation habits, energy use, and consumption patterns to get a better idea of where you're acting in an eco-friendly way and where you could use a little improvement.

It's best to use that energy towards creating healthy habits that work for you and will prolong your life; this is fitness.

While I have no doubt that this choice of morning beverage will indeed produce a high level of focus and intensity due to the quick injection of caffeine and medium chain triglycerides (used by the body for energy rather than fat storage) to the bloodstream, any weight loss benefits to a bulletproof coffee habit over the long term are completely ludicrous.

However, using stimulants to boost your energy is not a good habit to cultivate.

So I am personally ok with using buzzwords and phrases like superfoods, energy boosting, top 10 health foods etc... if that grabs the public attention in this flood media market and get someone to eat more veggies or consider changing their eating habits.

Using some sense with your lifestyle habits and activities can mean all the world of difference between a state of fat adaptation where you have sustainable energy and mental clarity or a state of sugar burning where you are feeling sluggish, having brain fog and carbohydrate cravings.

I used to buy these peanut butter & chocolate chip energy balls from Liquiteria before my workout class and spend $ 6 - 7 on three balls — it was a delicious but pricey habit.

Private yoga lessons can be used to address concerns such as injuries, therapeutics, energy balancing, and can even be used to transform bad habits, including postural misalignments and behavioural patterns.

Orangutans in Borneo can survive potential starvation by using their body fat and muscles as energy until a bounty of food is available, researchers find, adding that the results may someday shed light on the eating habits of our earliest ancestors.

When we use our executive functioning, or frontal cortex (otherwise known as our «thinking brain») we expend energy, so creating habits means that we no longer need to think about it — great news for our brain and body.

How we use land, general human consumption, energy choices, eating habits, our lifestyles, and wastes all add to the condition to the environment.

So there's huge potential to reduce your personal energy and water use, and therefore your environmental footprint, by simply greening your laundry habits.

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

L. Hunter Lovins and others swear that India and China need not follow the Western norm of building prosperity on black rock and petroleum, noting the embedded subsidies in old energy habits and ample opportunities to curb energy use at a profit.

But solutions exist to decrease this dependency: energy savings, putting more energy types in the mix (even though some energies, like the nuclear energy, need to be better devised because of their restrictive use conditions), a conscious choice of citizens to change some habits - and society also: it is not evil to stop working during the hottest hours of the day instead of using lavishly climatisers.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Electronics also have a peculiar habit of draining energy when they're not in use.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

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Our Impact Evaluation survey completed by participants each quarter tells us the NWEI process drives awareness, a sense of personal responsibility and new and strengthened actions from eating habits, to curbing consumption, energy use and civic action.

For example, while Pope Francis singles out «the increasing use and power of air - conditioning» as a «harmful habit of consumption,» it is worth remembering that such energy - intensive activities result in pollution and the depletion of scarce resources only when a society needs to rely on dirty and non-renewable energy sources.

The smart home company claims Netatmo Smart Valves allow users to control their heating on a room - by - room basis and use on average 37 percent less energy to heat their home without compromising on comfort.The Smart Valves can be used in houses with both individual heating and collective heating systems by fitting them on hot - water radiators, where they work to regulate the temperature of each room as part of a heating schedule and adapt to the habits and movements of residents.For example, the bathroom is heated to 21 °C during the morning, but not for the rest of the day when it is not being used; the parents» bedroom remains at 16 °C during the day when it is empty,

For example, Nest marries its understanding of a household's habits with data about energy use to make decisions about the best time to run a load of laundry.

A programmable version that can learn the habits of the residents in house will let the system use energy more efficiently, keeping bills down.