Sentences with phrase «environmental advantage in»

Australia is at an environmental advantage in our ability to leverage carbon offset opportunities from our extensive forest and natural vegetation cover.

Besides the economic advantages of GWE's anaerobic wastewater treatment, there is also a clear environmental advantage in significantly reducing factories» carbon footprint.

Paper may have environmental advantages in that unlike coal, the CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) that is released into the atmosphere is not additional CO2 freed from coal sequestration and permanently added to the atmosphere, but may be recaptured by planting a tree to create more paper.

Not exact matches

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

Back in the lab, Endler proved his hypothesis by creating guppy populations that over just 10 generations adapted to the different environmental challenges and advantages he introduced.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

Despite this consideration, the report, in the same chapter, recognizes the clear advantage of organic schemes in the educational role that they have played: «millions of consumers have been made aware of the way food markets work, and of the environmental impacts of food production, processing and distribution, and of the quality of the foods we eat» and it concludes that organic as well as fair trade and «short - chain strategies» are legitimate and valid options for both farmers and consumers and that policy can support these approaches by helping farmers to achieve higher yields.

Designed specifically for roasters, The Smoke Dog is an afterburner that offers roasters a clear environmental and economical advantage in the roasting process.

«From unsurpassed health protection and taste preservation to recycling advantages and other environmental benefits, glass is clearly the gold standard in packaging,» said Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute.

The sleek, slender design and strong, flexible packaging offers 50 % space savings in the front and back - of - the - house, better environmental advantages, lower distribution costs and less fuel to transport.

«This is due, in part, to increasing awareness of cork's environmental and technical advantages and acknowledgement of the added value that a quality natural cork closure brings to bottled wine.

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

Cloth or Disposable diapers — Cloth diapers are an older concept but one that has grown in popularity in recent years due to the environmental benefits and the financial advantage of a reusable cloth diaper.

Starting in 1988, when a well - publicized report said that disposables were cluttering landfills, diaper services took advantage of a sudden surge of environmental correctness.

In addition to specific health advantages for infants and mothers, economic, family, and environmental benefits have been described.

Suzanne will set the stage by talking about the changed media environment from her perspective as an experienced political communicator, I'll discuss the ways nonprofits can prepare to take advantage of new outlets both in the short and long term, and Kira will talk about several specific examples from her work at Environmental Defense Fund.

Pete Demola April 22, 2018 The Sun Plattsburgh − Earth Day is serious business in the Adirondacks and across the North Country, and the public took advantage of the sunny weather over the weekend to celebrate the global event designed to boost awareness of environmental issues.

California's 11th (Currently Democratic): Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) was one of the surprise winners in 2006, taking advantage of the environmental movement's jihad against Rep. Richard Pombo (R) to ride to a narrow victory.

Japan's experience tracking A-bomb survivors, an early start gathering data on environmental exposures in Fukushima, and a family registry system that tracks virtually all individuals all offer «great advantages» in devising more definitive low - dose studies, says Preston, who believes such a study would be well worth the cost.

Plus methane leaking from the wells may, in some cases, be enough to offset the environmental advantage that natural gas enjoys.

The report also provides a closer look at the environmental impact of building roads and bringing in construction equipment to develop hydro power in Africa and South America; the land - use advantages of solar technology; and the costs of large - scale energy storage.

«Both dirty and clean firms are active in lobbying, suggesting that while dirty firms lobby to maintain the status quo clean firms view environmental regulation as an opportunity to gain firm - level advantages,» Magali Delmas, Jinghui Lim and Nicholas Nairn - Birch, researchers at UCLA, said in their report.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

But in environmental science as in medical research, the advantages go beyond data collection.

«The nurture view bases the left - handers» advantage on the environmental fact that they are few in number, relative to right - handers.

Corallith - forming species are robust and resilient to environmental change and physical damage — features that may give them an advantage in the future as climate change progresses.

Rick Potts argues that environmental instability and disruption were decisive factors in the success of Homo sapiens: Alone among our primate tribe, we were able to cope with constant change and turn it to our advantage.

An important advantage, says Pirt, is that the minerals become concentrated in the residual solids, enabling extraction of heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, which could pose environmental problems in sludge spread on agricultural land.

And with the additional advantages of a vegan diet — in terms of animal compassion and limiting environmental damage — there are more than enough reasons to adopt a plant - based diet.

Some uncommon grains have environmental advantages that could be beneficial in a changing world.

Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.

Despite the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the use of heat pumps in schools offer a number of advantages: • a simple and cost effective installation compared to some alternative technologies • ongoing schools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable obligation.

There are educational advantages too, with teachers using the solar panels to spur interest in science and technology or to inspire wider environmental activities such as eco-clubs.

In addition to economic benefits, there are social and environmental advantages to reducing energy consumption, such as preserving fossil fuels and minimising impact on the environment.

Rural South Fulton Charter School Opens With Environmental Focus Chattahoochee Hills Charter School, serving grades K - 5, breaks new ground in the Palmetto area with an experiential, project - based approach that takes advantage of the school's rural setting.

This in my mind demonstrated that not only do we have to provide the facilities, technology, and proper furnishings, but, educators must develop the curriculum and teaching modalities to properly utilize those capabilities.As we move the school «out of the box,» educators must be trained and curriculum developed to take advantage of the environmental improvements, the technological enhancements, and the flexible furnishings that exist.

(3) In choosing among alternative regulatory approaches, select those approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety, and other advantages; distributive impacts; and equity);

Tom Russo: I came upon value investing at the Stanford Business School in the early 1980s when Berkshire chairman, CEO Warren Buffett came to our class and it was a class taught by Jack McDonald, who is a lone voice in Palo Alto towards thinking about investing as though you are acquiring pieces of companies and then assessing whether you think that the company had competitive advantage that would endure and then coupling those two discoveries into the process of investing regardless of the environmental concerns or academic principles that might be in contradiction to the bold assertion that one might just identify a company with superior economics and a strong culture that could pose the investment for the lifetime of the investor.

In particular, we will continue to be the primary supporter of Turneffe Atoll Trust whose mission is to see that the Turneffe Atoll is managed sustainably for the economic, social and environmental advantage of Belize.

With the game coming to PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and the PC if we are to believe the earlier Amazon Listing on Amazon UK, From what I gathered from the trailer, we can look forward to using environments to our advantage which is a feature taken from Injustice: Gods Among Us and in the earlier Mortal Kombat games from the old days, we see the return of the X-Ray (poor Sub-Zero), we can also hope to expect dynamic stages and environmental assets at our disposal and hopefully level transitions, Along with all that we see that Scorpion and Sub-Zero have new moves to them and if the fatality at the end of the video is Scorpions new fatality then I am more than excited for this game!

Taking a global view, there's an advantage to drilling in our backyard, if drilling must be done — it will be carried out with a level of environmental care that does not exist in Africa and many other places where regulatory oversight is not as strict as here (which is not to say that American regulators are as strict as they can and should be).

However, it does have advantages and disadvanatages: it takes supercomputers in climate science, genetics, environmental sciences, utilizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo integration methods among others to compute and solve for intractable integrals.

The program's flagship event is its annual EcoChallenge in October — a two - week initiative that is free and open to everyone, inviting organizations and community groups to take advantage of the platform's tools to work together and reduce environmental impact... There are two key, upfront benefits to EcoChallenge: the platform is free and it already exists.

If we think of environmental issues that way instead of polar bears in the Artic and rainforests around the tropics, then there are a number of advantages to that.

A decade ago Congress passed legislation creating the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- requiring escalating volumes of ethanol in the U.S. fuel supply — that was intended in part to help reduce crude oil imports while capitalizing the supposed environmental advantages of ethanol.

He added that by aiming to restore the natural carbon cycle, we can take advantage of carbon for the benefit of humans, so that it can create positive environmental impacts, not harm in the end.

The farm's owners knew that restoring the composting operation using a more efficient, multi-stage solids - separating system was the best way to take full advantage of the nutrients in the waste stream while significantly reducing the environmental threat posed by manure decomposition and nutrient run - off, but needed investment to install the new equipment.

In this context it is possible without compromising environmental standards to take advantage of diesels» substantial mileage advantage over gasoline - fueled internal combustion engines.

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