Sentences with phrase «first energy crisis»

Fischetti: Another historic, kind of, angle on this might be, well in the»70s [during the] so - called first energy crisis, E. F. Schumacher published this book Small is Beautiful, [which basically said, «big is bad» and I think it was mainly pitched against industry more than anything else.]

Rosenthal credits a scientific article published during America's first energy crisis in the 1970s for piquing his interest in bismuth.

Not exact matches

«It was the first time in a while that I felt energy or motivation for the company because it was now in crisis mode.»

It is not the first time Musk has publicly offered to help a country with its energy crisis.

The crisis has presented Tillerson, well known in the Gulf from his former role as chief of energy giant ExxonMobil, with his first big challenge as Washington's top diplomat.

Energy was at the centre of the 2006 G8 when the Russian - Ukrainian gas crisis hit Europe and oil prices reached $ 50 per barrel for the first time (a threshold now long forgotten, in 2012 the average price is stood at about $ 112 per barrel).

«The song has nothing to do with the energy crisis, The title is very self - explanatory, so will advice you listen to the song first before you past judgement» he added.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

Already, the CEC (set up in 1975 in the wake of the nation's first oil crisis) balances new energy demands — such as screening new power plants on the basis of at least 23 different impacts, ranging from economics to air quality — with efficiency efforts.

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

First adopted in the 1930s, when the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, the four - day school week saw a resurgence during the energy crisis of the 1970s.

One of my longest term holdings is Breitburn Energy Partners LP (BBEP) which I first purchased during Fall 2008, the height of the financial crisis.

But for a lot of energy - dependent industries, there is little way to reduce energy use, as most measures were taken a long time ago (after the first oil crisis), and alternatives (still) are too expensive...

Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have led to national policy positions that have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.

«Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.»

The scale of the public health crisis caused by air pollution and the importance of the energy sector to its resolution are the reasons why the IEA is focusing on this critical topic for the first time.

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

The first Guardian article's title says it all: «Exclusive - Energy giant exploited Ebola crisis for corporate gain, say health experts.»