Sentences with phrase «environmental impact on our planet»

We choose to purchase our coffee from the highest quality sources while helping them achieve greater profitability with less environmental impact on our planet.

Environmentally sound — whenever possible, we stay in eco camps on hiking trips that minimize our environmental impact on the planet.

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As chairman of Puma, Jochen is pioneering an environmental profit - and - loss reporting tool that helps companies assess the impact their products are having on our planet and our communities, and lets customers know which products are sustainable.

Any assessment must depend upon an estimate of the environmental impact of people on the planet.

Social and environmental responsibility are critical elements of Nutiva's culture and business, as the company is committed to nourishing people by providing the purest quality product and reducing negative impacts on the planet.

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

As the countdown begins for us to join people from across the globe to celebrate WED on 5 June 2016, we all need to take part in environmental action and become agents of change for positive impacts on the planet.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

And unless we acknowledge our spiritual connectedness to one another and to this planet we live on — unless we realize that almost everything each of us does has an impact on somebody else — we may never rise above our self - interests in order to gather the collective forces we need to face the environmental challenges that now surround us.»

Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.

Opening Friday, September 5, 5 - 8 pm Amy Balkin Adriane Colburn Blane De St. Croix Mark Dion Julie Heffernan Gideon Mendel This exhibition brings together recent work by six artists whose creative practices are propelled by keen attention to the insidious effects of human impact on the planet, in light of escalating environmental disaster.

With this exhibition Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her own poetic language to address the irreversible impact of human interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.

Satellite photos of oil on salt water may even impact the politics of environment in the USA, just as did NASA's first photos of the Blue Planet two years after the first Earth Day, helping inspire Congress to pass major pieces of environmental legislation.

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

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author, speaker, and environmental activist Colin Beavan, commonly referred to as No Impact Man, is well known for his year - long experiment with a no - impact lifestyle and his book on the experience, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the PImpact Man, is well known for his year - long experiment with a no - impact lifestyle and his book on the experience, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Pimpact lifestyle and his book on the experience, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the PImpact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet.

He went on to develop several software applications that help individuals and companies better understand their environmental impact, produced and wrote the Discovery Network's first online news show for Planet Green, and later led digital advocacy for the TckTckTck campaign, a global network of 500 NGOs working to secure an international climate agreement.

Some of the environmental topics and categories that we now focus on include climate change and the effects of global warming, including their various impacts on both people and the planet as well as conservation issues and news articles relating to nature and wildlife.

After an eye opening trip to Costa Rica, Stephen was inspired to make a positive impact on the planet and started Costa Rican Adventures, www.costaricanadventures.com, an educational eco-tour company striving to raise environmental awareness.

But it's also — very clearly — about the environmental causes of good health (clean air & water, organic food), and the impact we have on what kind of health the planet can offer us.

Chances are there's something on your «to - do» list for the planet — whether it's replacing the front lawn with a veggie garden, installing rain barrels, getting a bus pass or kicking the bottled water habit, most of us have something we've been meaning to change in order to reduce our environmental impact, save money and live better.

EcoChallenge 2014 is underway with 205 teams taking on actions to lighten environmental impact — and setting goals that stretch the comfort zone and make a difference for each of us and the planet.

At the same time, Best Buy is addressing our own carbon footprint resulting in a positive impact on the economic, environmental and societal well - being of the planet.

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The ecomodernists recognize that their case for preserving nature by decoupling human activity from environmental impacts «draws more on spiritual or aesthetic than on material or utilitarian arguments,» since we «could survive and prosper materially on a planet with much less biodiversity and wild nature.»