Sentences with phrase «environmental side»

When I first went vegan it was mainly motivated by health and spiritual growth, and the more it became motivated by the ethical and environmental side of the vegan spectrum the more I stared to move away from my «healthy» approach and started eating everything as long as it was vegan.

Opening this month is «Poison Play» at the Islip Art Museum, a group exhibition examining the toxic environmental side effects of consumer culture.

But in international affairs, Trump and his proposed secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, the Exxon chairman, will confront a world of intertwined interests in which climate change has moved from being an inconvenient environmental side issue in the early 1990s to a keystone focal point now, said Andrew Light, a George Mason University professor focused on climate policy.

Whereas solar or wind farms have few negative environmental side effects, they require more space and produce less energy than environmentally unfriendly coal plants.

But since sulfur spraying would have serious environmental side effects — sulfates in the air lead to the production of sulfuric acid, which damages the ozone layer — a team of Harvard researchers went looking for better alternatives.

Not surprising; if you're not constrained by money or by concerns about environmental side effects, you can put mirrors in the sky and particles in the stratosphere until it's darkness at noon.

Finally, production technologies are gradually reducing environmental side effects, including greenhouse emissions.»

«There are too many scientific uncertainties relating both to the efficacy of ocean fertilization and its possible environmental side effects that need to be resolved before even larger experiments should be considered, let alone the process commercialized,» Rayfuse says.

Jackson Galaxy goes on to mention World's Best Cat Litter ™ specifically as a natural cat litter option, «Natural options like World's Best Cat Litter are available in the same locations as conventional litter, we don't have to worry about the physical or environmental side effects of clay, and, the cats like it.»

Environmental degradation — provisions in the environmental side agreement are non-binding.

«You can take things that are considered infrastructure... and crossbreed it so that it actually has positive social and environmental side effects.

Others viewed the environmental side agreement as weak and unenforcable and continued to oppose NAFTA.

When it comes to the environmental side of its operations, however, the company strives to leave as little of a mark as possible.

However, there were a few developments on the environmental side.

On the environmental side, Dan Shapley, Water Quality Program Director for Riverkeeper, applauds the governor's continued multiyear $ 2.5 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure and source water protection.

«I think there's no country on Earth that is not concerned about balancing dealing with this issue on the environmental side and making sure that, in the midst of a severe recession, that it's not having too much of an adverse impact on economic growth and employment,» Obama said.

On the environmental side, the polluting properties of coal — starting with mining and lasting long after burning — and the large amounts of energy required to liquefy it mean that liquid coal produces more than twice the global warming emissions as regular gasoline and almost double those of ordinary diesel.

After 7 years at HMV, Hope felt the time had come to pursue «the environmental side of my interests.»

On the other hand, the hard sciences are saying they need the environmental side.»

There's also an environmental side to organic agriculture that will be attractive to some producers, he said.

For example, during the early stages, girls and firstborn children on average learn vocabulary somewhat more quickly than their peers.2 On the environmental side, parents who talk more to their children have children whose vocabularies grow faster.3

On the environmental side, there are several known influences.

If anyone feels threatened by this movie it would have to mean you're conceding that the communication skills of the environmental side are really bad — which actually they are, so maybe there should be some cause for concern.

This Halloween, take a moment to consider the environmental side of the things that go bump in the night and how they help sustain us for many Halloweens to come.

Science and environmentalism may get intertwined if, for example, you prefer the mall but predict that environmental side effects might compromise the ability of industrial society to build more of them.

Conrad said that working for Nokia's environmental side has been a pleasure because he doesn't have to push hard to make positive changes happen.

So while it's good to see the curtain being lifted on worker conditions at Apple's factories and the issues there being taken seriously, the tech giant still has a lot of work to do on the environmental side of its manufacturing process.

World leaders are trying to solve the climate crisis through negotiations and policy, but by focusing merely the environmental side of the problem, they risk missing the point.

Moreover, the possible environmental side - effects of solar geoengineering are not yet at all well understood, and they could prove to be unacceptable.

In Chapter 1, reviewing tax returns and annual reports, I collected revenue, overall spending, and climate and energy specific spending for 87 different organizations, 42 on the conservative / industry association side and 45 on the environmental side for 2009, the year for which data is most recently available.

One panel member challenged companies to shift from focusing first on the environmental side and only belatedly on the social side.

On the environmental side, wind energy offset roughly 466,000 metric tons of carbon emissions last year, which is the equivalent of 99,000 cars.

Too bad that it isn't obvious to these people that something that is un-sustainable on the environmental side can't be sustainable on the business side.

For the environmental side of things, avoiding restaurants and the tremendous waste they incur is a good idea.

Today, scientists take as a given what Vavilov first articulated, a message that ultimately cost him his life: Agricultural biodiversity is the cornerstone for building greater food security for humankind; without it, our food system will be crippled by pestilence and plague, drought and flood, global warming, and the economic or environmental side effects of globalization.

Given the balancing act at play, the plan is perhaps surprisingly getting a fair bit of support from both the business and environmental sides.

January 2014 will mark 20 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its environmental side agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC).

I've always had an environmental side to my work, but my philosophy lately has been to try to do the absolute right and best thing for each house we work on so that it will never have to be remodeled again!