Sentences with phrase «environmental advantages of»

We're excited to see such a service being offered in the Bay Area, and hope the concept catches on around the country as a way to both increase the demand for green real estate, and to educate consumers about the financial and environmental advantages of buying a green home.

With production growth in areas like the Midwest and Pennsylvania, expanding our pipeline system will ensure that we move energy efficiently, maximizing the economic and environmental advantages of our status as a world energy leader.

Logical arguments previously have been presented by others touting the environmental advantages of reduce, reuse, recycle and the creation of markets for the raw materials within the waste stream.

Coupled with the environmental advantages of natural gas, our country's policies should work to ensure its safe, responsible and growing production.

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.

«We hope this greater range of fare options will allow travellers to make even more use of Europe's high - speed rail network and exploit the environmental advantages of train over plane for seamless rail journeys.»

If you're a bit taller and quicker than I, you begin to harness all the environmental advantages of that.

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.

Not exact matches

Ma said the environmental damage of the high rate of growth has been severe, and there are other advantages to embracing the economic slowdown.

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.

Apart from development banks and frequent borrowers on the lookout for ways to tap new investors, most corporates saw neither the need nor the advantage of issuing bonds whose proceeds must be tied to environmental projects.

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.

«I think my experience working as a winemaker has given me an understanding of the questions wineries may have when exploring the idea of bulk shipping, so I know how to demonstrate its benefits, including cost and environmental advantages.

The benefits of BiB packaging include a longer shelf life after opening, easy handling, a lower price per litre and significant environmental advantages.

Product protection, the renewability of our raw materials, and our outstanding 91 percent recovery rate, along with other health, environmental, and economic advantages, make corrugated boxes the right choice for food packaging.

Material and cost savings combined with puncture resistance and environmental advantages are claims made by Bollore for its newly - launched range of ultra-thin polyolefin shrink films.

Organic farming has major advantages with regard to many central environmental impacts, such as the issues of nitrogen and pesticides.

It is a model for other commercial operators seeking evidence of the advantages of combining private enterprise with environmental management and wetland conservation,» Mr Papps said.

Besides the economical advantage of efficient anaerobic wastewater treatment, there is clearly also the environmental advantage, significantly reducing factories» carbon footprint.

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

«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.

Besides the economical advantage of anaerobic wastewater treatment, there is clearly also the environmental advantage, significantly reducing factories» carbon footprint.

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.

Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding.1 These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits.

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.

He promised to go after MS - 13 and other violent street gangs, those who commit environmental crimes and employers who illegally take advantage of their workers.

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.

Edmunds raised another potential environmental impact: If cities started to take advantage of offshore groundwater, the supply could be exhausted at some point.

By means of building simulations and advanced calculation models, the researchers came to the conclusion that using plenty of energy is both an economic and an environmental advantage, while it is also inexpensive and green.

He emphasises that the precise economic and environmental advantage for an individual household depends on the building's specific thermal conditions, but that the result of the study will under all circumstances have an impact on the construction industry.

Environmental groups are jumping to take advantage of the weakness.

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.

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.

This has implications for future oil spills and how we take advantage of the natural environmental response.»

Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, says that ICP seems to offer one clear advantage over reverse osmosis: it does a better job of sifting out charged pollutants and could be more efficient at removing bacteria and some industrial waste compounds.

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.

Experts have long been experimenting with techniques to create solar fuels, which allow all the advantages of conventional fossil fuels along with the environmental benefits of renewable energy.

Another possible advantage of the system is environmental.

DTE has not made a commitment to build, but is keeping the option open, given the long - term environmental and economic advantages of nuclear power.

These results illustrate how environmental factors can affect division of labor and how social organisms can collectively mitigate the negative effect of environmental factors, highlighting one of the most important advantages of group living.

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy - duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University....

This finding suggests that by the end of the century, following a business as usual CO2 emission scenario, these animals might avoid functional environmental cues and become attracted to cues that provide no adaptive advantage or are potentially deleterious.

Apart from the obvious advantages of reducing your environmental impact and providing a healthier alternative to a meat heavy diet, the low carbon diet will lighten the pressure on your hip pocket.