Sentences with phrase «environmental impact of your choices»

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But if consumer desire for eco-friendly choices is growing, Rogers argues that many of the options we're given to lessen the environmental impact of our lifestyles are little more than exercises in greenwashing.

Many of the metrics that drive CEO pay are short - term and provoke decisions with negative long - term impact; underinvestment in research and development and choices that have long - term negative environmental impact.

To us corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact and supporting our communities.

Our projects and services facilitate greater understanding of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our food choices, and promote the purchase of locally grown and produced foods to keep our farms and food businesses viable and to strengthen the local economy.

To learn more about the environmental impact of our food choices as well as trends and developments in the plant - based food space, subscribe to the #EatForThePlanet with Nil Zacharias podcast.

For more about the environmental impact of our food choices as well as trends and developments in the plant - based food space, check out our podcast #EatForThePlanet with Nil Zacharias.

To learn more about the environmental impact of our food choices as well as trends and developments in the plant - based food space, check out our podcast #EatForThePlanet with Nil Zacharias.

* The actual environmental impacts will vary depending on various factors, including the source of the food and other overall dietary choices.

The Sheppard family of Chapel Hill was concerned about environmental issues, so they participated in a «carbon challenge» to measure the impact of their lifestyle choices on the environment.

But there's another important dimension to school food that few, if any, school nutrition directors currently take into account: the environmental impact of their menu choices.

My mission is to inspire families and teachers to cook with kids, eat healthy ingredients, and pay attention to the environmental impact of our food choices.

Whatever the best choice may be when it comes to minimizing the environmental impact of diapers, Taylor argues there may also health factors to consider.

«An increase of one unit in the importance attached to the environmental impact of food choice increased a person's likelihood of eating insects by more than 70 %.

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

Another way to help sort through the thousands of appliances out there that are EnergyStar - compliant is by checking out the Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports magazine) free Greener Choices website, which compares a wide range of merchandise according to their relative environmental impact.

To estimate the impact of U.S. dietary choices on greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers built a database that assessed the environmental impacts involved in producing more than 300 types of foods.

Bob Holmes's search for «real clean food» — a diet that is both healthy and eco-friendly — was one of the most thoughtful and unbiased, scientifically based articles on the environmental impacts of food choices that I have read in a long time (23 September, p 35).

The focus of the conference was connecting how epigenetics (cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence — in other words nutrition and lifestyle choices) impact whether or not an individual actually develops a specific health issue even though they have a SNP mutation.

«The preliminary results of this research are encouraging and emphasize the importance of choosing a healthy diet to help counteract the lifestyle and environmental factors that may impact liver function, even our choice of a sweetener.

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Pupils should be able to: understand the meaning of sustainable event management, explain ways to practise social and environmental responsibility when attending different events, understand how labelling can help inform people to enable them to make sustainable choices and recognise how sustainable measures can reduce environmental impact and encourage sustainable development and responsible citizenship.

Some local and global environmental impacts of how we use resources, and how our actions and choices can change our effect on the world for the better, are considered.

Greenpeace field reports and social media campaigns have raised consumer concerns about environmental and social impacts of various corporate supply choices.

If consumer concern about the environmental impacts of seafood choices rises, there's ample evidence that better practices will follow.

The result: some fascinating chairs but more importantly, a great way to bring sustainability alive for product design students by highlighting the environmental impact of design and material choices.

Given the human tendency to favor current needs over future risks, some environmental and legal scholars are proposing that governments at various levels appoint a «legal guardian of future generations» to consider the impact of policy choices on citizens yet unborn.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides immediate access to a cross-section of environmental data for any geographical location in the U.S. Access useful information about your air, water, energy choices, and ways to lessen the impacts of climate change at MEnvironmental Protection Agency provides immediate access to a cross-section of environmental data for any geographical location in the U.S. Access useful information about your air, water, energy choices, and ways to lessen the impacts of climate change at Menvironmental data for any geographical location in the U.S. Access useful information about your air, water, energy choices, and ways to lessen the impacts of climate change at MyEnvironment.

But titanium dioxide has a significant environmental impact, leading some of the alternative paint companies to offer a choice of paints either with or without titanium.

I mean, not many people realize that there choice of car has a greater environmental impact than any other choice they make as a consumer.

That's according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group, the Meat Eater's Guide, that assesses the environmental and health impact of our Environmental Working Group, the Meat Eater's Guide, that assesses the environmental and health impact of our environmental and health impact of our food choices.

The result: some fascinating pieces but more importantly, a great way to bring sustainability alive for young designers by highlighting the environmental impact of design and material choices.

And if it's a choice between big box shopping and online retail, then online retail has a lot going for it in terms of environmental impact — especially if we can drastically reduce the environmental footprint of delivery itself.

The results knock train travel down a peg, but it still comes out a solid green travel choice: Infrastructure a Huge Part of Train's Impact In their article Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains, authors Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath of UC Berkeley find that when,

Although last month, when it won Backpacker Magazines» 2007 Editors» Choice Green Award, the company said, «Our hope is that other like - minded companies will join us in developing an industry - wide index for comparing the environmental impacts of our design choices and we also hope to inspire consumers to ask questions, and make informed decisions about their purchases.»

The choice of standardization method depends on the character of the tree - ring data but, in general, more complex statistical methods are needed when the non-climatic environmental factors have a strong impact on tree growth (Cook et al. 1990).