Not exact matches
The Coega
plant is more efficient
than traditional UHT milk processing
plants and has the smallest carbon
footprint in the southern hemisphere.
Impossible Foods makes meat directly from
plants — with a much smaller environmental
footprint than meat from animals
Plants come in standard and custom designs, and result in smaller
footprints than conventional systems.
Aquaponic systems typically have a lower carbon
footprint than traditional soil, hydroponic, or aquaculture farms, due to the symbiosis between the fish, the beneficial bacteria, and the
plants.
According to the company, as many as 13 growing modules can be connected as a single unit, for a total of 78
plants, making it possible to grow more produce in a small physical
footprint than a traditional garden bed.
I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other
than Kansas, or Al Gore's
footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired
plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather
than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).
Obviously that non-renewable electricity generation has its own carbon
footprint, but it's easier to control hundreds of power
plants than hundreds of millions of vehicles.
I also consider hat natural gas driven power
plants would have a better environmental
footprint than that of coal, especially brown coal.
These include more efficient coal
plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon
footprint than directly burning coal.
So rather
than change utility or power
plant behavior, Boulder's tax acts as an education tool for consumers to lower their carbon
footprint and a revenue source for green programming.
Helium — rather
than water — cooling enables siting flexibility in a
footprint that is ten times less
than conventional nuclear
plants.
In the late 1980s, a policy analyst with the World Resources Institute named Mark Trexler realized you could sponge up even more carbon dioxide if you saved endangered rainforest rather
than planting new trees, and the energy company Applied Energy Services (AES) worked with him to reduce their carbon
footprint by doing just that.
It's not news that meat and dairy are among the largest contributors to the world's growing carbon
footprint, but lamb, beef, cheese, pork, and farmed salmon in particular generate the most greenhouse gases — sometimes four times more
than other animal products and 13 times more
than plant - based proteins.