Sentences with phrase «environmental measures like»
He hopes environmental measures like these could be used to fight bugs that are even worse than the flu.
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And if the corporation failed to measure up — because of problems like unfair labor practices, environmental damage, unsavory tax practices — and rehabilitation failed, the government would place the company in «moral bankruptcy.»
The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.
Maybe it's less useful to consider them as akin to academic skills that can be taught and measured and incentivized in predictable ways and more useful to think of them as being like psychological conditions — the product of a complex matrix of personal and environmental factors.
The budget includes roughly $ 1 billion in savings for the 2017 fiscal year from measures like reducing office space, refinancing debt and, at the Environmental Protection Department, switching to natural gas from diesel.
Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.
The final management plan contains some innovative environmental conservation measures, like spacing the gas wells at least a half mile (0.8 kilometer) apart and limiting production to just one percent of the plateau's environmentally sensitive surface at a time.
«In a lot of ways, for a long time our way of measuring whether a state was fragile or was going to collapse didn't really include core environmental factors and natural resource factors, like food and water,» said Femia, who is also the president and co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security.
They measured potential benefits, like more agricultural opportunities, and weighed those gains against environmental impacts.
The study, funded by NASA and published today in Environmental Research Letters, is the first time scientists have been able to measure fossil fuel CO2 emissions over a large area like California.
Whilst the Siloe Patera caldera is smaller than that of Yellowstone, measuring around 40 x 30 km (25 x 19 miles), it and others like it could have played a significant role in environmental evolution.
Here, in one of Adam Nieman's experiments in visualizing global environmental change, is what four seconds of worldwide emissions of CO2 would look like if you could track the gas by its volume measured in United Nations towers:
• Conservation measures, most preferably the environmental — like the planting of trees, careful digging of terraces in the gardens to prevent soil erosion and construction of gab - ions along the banks of the existing river channels.
Like the Carbon Footprint it is a totally contrived and meaningless measure, but allows environmental guilt finger pointing.
They say that by packaging reductions in greenhouse gas emissions with other environmental measures, like cutting other power plant emissions, they could win concessions on other pollution rules.
Nazi - like genocial population control measures and the environmental establishment have always held a close alliance.
In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.
From Civil Eats: [Straight economic figures] are more difficult to project, partly because the benefits are often measured in terms of what is not happening — like adverse environmental and health impacts — or practices with indirect benefits, such as crop diversity.
Dimensional Stability The ability of material a flooring product to resist changes in measured dimensions, such as thickness and width, caused by changes in environmental factors like moisture or temperature.