Sentences with phrase «far less land»

That means we can now get vastly more energy from far less land; with far fewer impacts on environmental quality, biodiversity and endangered species; and with none of the nasty effects on food supplies, food prices and world hunger that biofuel lunacy entails.

The new techniques impact far less land surface, use and recycle brackish water, and emit fewer air pollutants and (plant - fertilizing) carbon dioxide every year.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

Not exact matches

Farmers, for their part, are far less aggressive than hunters at landing new deals.

Clean meat will require much less land and will cause far less climate change than conventional meat.

He irst tells the anecdote of the most notorious pilgrim, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, who accumulated as penances no less than four pilgrimages to the Holy Land (no spoilers from me, but Stark concludes that maybe that was «far too few» p. 104).

For one thing, as women begin to feel strong and to see that they have far more potential than they have ever imagined, they are less apt to land in mental hospitals.

The great task of preaching the new gospel in western lands must go undone, or be left to men of far less power and vision, while the one man in all the world fittest for the task wore out his years in a dull and meaningless imprisonment.

Clean meat will require much less land and will cause far less climate change than conventional meat.

The mathematics prove the point: the researchers found that a piece of land that could produce 100 g of plant - based protein would be capable of producing far less animal - based protein — the same plot used for laying hens, chickens to eat, dairy products, pork and beef would respectively produce only 60 g, 50 g, 25 g and 4 g of protein.

They felt they could get better production for less money from the incoming class so they cut CJ EARLY which gives him a far better chance of landing with a team before the draft, which benefits him.

Arthur has a release clause of $ 50 million but it is expected that Barcelona could land him for far less than that, with a fee of $ 30m having been mentioned.

Weekends will assume a deeper meaning, and thoughts of summer holidays and World Cups in far flung lands, will fade hazily into the memory banks, perhaps retrieved and discussed at some later date, when other matters appear less pressing.

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

Park District officials said the land that would be affected is less than a half - acre owned by the city, far less than the necessary 10 percent of the overall affected land that requires city involvement.

But Park District officials maintain the land that would be affected is less than a half - acre owned by the city, far less than the 10 percent requirement.

While Americans are far from going hungry, we are actually using less and less of our farm land and people refuse to become farmers under this system, so I would argue the US is likely producing less food and especially the food people want to eat than we would otherwise.

Consumer drones pose far less of a threat to high - flying commercial aircraft; a jet airliner is in drone airspace only during takeoff and landing, and is very fast - moving target for a quadcopter.

The now - frozen Huygens probe can go no further; as expected, its power supply ran out less than two hours after it landed.

Postdocs who do get faculty posts are far likelier to land at institutions where they will spend more time teaching and less doing research.

A new study by a team of IMAS and Canadian scientists has found that catching most types of fish produces far less carbon per kilo of protein than land - based alternatives like beef or lamb.

This organization does not just seek out far away lands, but has avenues for supporting the less fortunate in the United States as well.

In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie role.

The bizarre mesh of stereotypes and coincidences comes into land with a final act that shrugs off sense altogether for sheer spectacle, introduced by nothing less than a Henry V - style rallying call from our hero — simultaneously one of the best and worst on - screen speeches of the year so far.

What we've played so far has been less than half of the Nintendo Land package — just five games of the proposed 12 — but that was enough to tell us that this is a hefty cut above other mini-game collections out there.

They then landed the Swindon deal to less fan - fair and seek to further expose their products to alternative markets.

Ostensibly about a paranormal detective whose shock - induced visions see him land in South Dakota, the final product seems far less linear than that.

LOC's typically are a far less expensive option than a loan, credit card, or cash advance in the long run and are less likely to land you in hot water with proper management.

By buying organic food, you will also be supporting sustainable methods of land use that result in far less environmental pollution than conventional agriculture, which uses toxic chemicals.

Venture further east into less - visited lands and you'll discover the beautiful Balkans.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

It's rumored that for those staff members who were part of the development behind certain projects whose end product didn't quite meet the standards or expectations set out by the higher - up's, would find themselves shunted into less - privileged positions in the company hierarchy — even going as far as landing roles as security guards, or worse, mere cleaners.

There should be far less short term variation and none of the problems associated with the locations of land - based thermometers.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

Food production can be made far more fruitful and less wasteful of land and water, more respectful of peasants and indigenous people and less polluting.

The lava was less abundant and certainly less visible now in daylight, but the mountain continued to throw out enormous chunks of debris, some of which were flung so far that they landed in the sea at the foot of the volcano with an explosive splash and a mist of steam.

Raising insects for human consumption uses far less water, land, and food than livestock, and insects emit almost no greenhouse gases.

Even though the area in a protected status is far from the only criterion for conservation status, the fact that between 5 - 10 % of the land is in parks and preserves and less than 1 % of oceans is protected gives some sense of the disparity.

This is a conservative metric: in reality, far less frequent flooding would likely lead to land being considered unusable.

Again, not true; it is because they have far less suitable land available than we do in Australia and far higher population densities.

The northern hemisphere has warmed faster than the southern because there's more land in the north than the south, and land has far less thermal inertia than ocean.

This raises very important issues of land use, the sustainability of existing (much less further) industrial intensification of agriculture, appropriate and equitable uses of biomass, and land tenure for indigenous and other local peoples.

The main problems as I understand it relates to water overdraft and lax land use policy that is allowing land to subside and less flow from the rivers that allows salt to encroach farther inland and building in areas that are prone to storm surge.

I go one step further and say even 1.1 C is the theoretical maximum over dry land and where there's water available to evaporate sensitivity at the surface where we live and breathe is much less.

Land produces a far higher yield of food crops, wiht the use of less water.

[F] rom the economic damage perspective the hurricanes that remain far away from shore in the Atlantic are much less important than those closer to land.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

I would hope that this is apparent to readers without further explanation from me here by virtue of obviously greater land mass areas as one moves northwards and to a lesser extent southwards from the equator.

In a land — scarce world, energy crops can not compete with solar electricity, much less with the far more land - efficient wind power.

It would appear logical that the additional solar insolation in the SH in January would have a longer residence time within the oceans then the lesser solar insolation in the NH in July, which, after all, lands on a far greater percentage of land, therby affecting the atmosphere more rapidly.