Sentences with phrase «environmental equivalent»

We need the environmental equivalent of Bernard Meland's experiments in chapel and classroom at Pomona College with nurturing and disciplining sensitivity to expressions of spiritual outreach (HEHS, ch.

David Cameron's green agenda would have prospered if the Tory leader had been able to call on an environmental equivalent of the CSJ.

«When it comes to protecting the physical well - being of our students, eradicating bed bugs should be the environmental equivalent of war,» he said.

We have been running the environmental equivalent of a deficit budget, which is sustained only by plundering our capital base, he writes.

The system has the capacity to reduce CO2 emissions by 861,000 pounds a year, which is the environmental equivalent of growing 9,000 seedlings for 10 years, or eliminating the number of miles driven by a car by 978,000 miles a year.

The program is built around the environmental equivalent of Elisabeth Kübler - Ross's five mental stages of dealing with death — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

In fact, installing a single geothermal unit is the environmental equivalent of planting 750 trees.

Storyville: Meet the Climate Sceptics 10 pm, BBC4 Despite — or because of — the scientific consensus that man - made global warming is a tangible hazard, a fringe of vociferous opinion holds that the danger has been massively overstated; that global warming is an environmental equivalent of the millennium bug.

Sourcing 27 % of their electricity consumption with renewable solar energy would provide the environmental equivalent of taking 8 cars off the road, growing 883 tree seedlings for 10 years, or driving 82,007 fewer miles!

Call them conversionists: green - minded green - minded car owners who take a perfectly functional vehicle and install the environmental equivalent of hydraulics, custom rims, and a backseat wet bar.

Even though it's the environmental equivalent of trying to prevent arson with vandalism, wind power has a momentum that's hard to control because an Environmental - Industrial Complex has grown around it, propped up with slick cover stories.

Dr. Lovelock, honored in 1997 with the Blue Planet Prize, which is widely considered the environmental equivalent of a Nobel award, has now come under attack from some environmentalists for his support of nuclear power as a way to avoid runaway «global heating» — his preferred alternative to «global warming.»

It makes installing solar panels the environmental equivalent of planting 88 trees.

Smart Cara boasts to reduce leftovers to just 10 % of their original volume and decrease annual carbon emissions by 425 kg per household — the environmental equivalent of plant three trees.