Sentences with phrase «from urban waste»

But it seems pretty clear that small - scale urban farm biogas digestion has great potential for gleaning energy from urban waste streams, recapturing valuable nutrients and returning them to the soil, and of course keeping rotting matter out of landfills7mdash; preventing both methane emissions and leaching in the process.

Not exact matches

Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

Expert presentations covered diverse topics including food waste and the circular economy, urban and rural case studies on harnessing food waste, and a panel discussion on the food supply chain, with presentations from primary production, manufacturing and distribution, retail and food service, and hospitality experts.

Too much time has already been wasted and we need to see positive action now from both governments as well as further action to attract new investment to Port Talbot such as the creation of an urban development company.»

If biofuels are to free us from rising prices at the pump and rising sea levelsthey must be produced from agricultural and urban wastes rather than corn, soy, and other food crops.

Holuszko, who co-founded UBC's urban mining innovation centre — a unit focused on reclaiming valuable metals and other materials from electronic waste — was determined to find a better recycling solution.

«The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier — from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area — and the green roof industry can turn these wasted spaces into a force for cleaner air, cleaner water, energy savings, cooling, beauty and recreation,» he says.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

Did you know that, according to studies, rural Africans who eat diets high in fiber, eliminate food waste in one - third the time it takes people from urban westernized cultures.

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Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

A synthesis of pop and kitsch, focus on producing bricolages out of objects from an urban environment and waste, humor and wit were some of the main subjects prevailing in their works.

Hyperrealistic paintings which result from a disarming pictorial precision and lead to a melancholy reflection about these new modern urban sceneries, the ones that take shape at street corners, in the suburbs, in the waste of this consumerist era.

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

He began creating works of art (mostly sculptures) from trash and other urban waste products.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

Let people from all over the city participate, and together we'll get some reductions in pollution, waste, and the tyranny of motor vehicles over our urban lives.

«Plans call for urban «food factories,» where organic vegetables can be grown with hydroponic techniques, employing liquid from the city's waste stream.

The Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI) is a phenomenon whereby the concentration of structures and waste heat from human activity (most notably air conditioners and internal combustion engines) results in a slightly warmer envelope of air over urbanised areas when compared to surrounding rural areas.

Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.

Finally, heavily populated urban areas represent a third source, which includes emissions from human breath and pet waste.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

A problem with airports is that they are often in urban or suburban locations that have been built up in the past few decades, and the increase in global air travel has led to increased traffic, pavement, buildings and waste heat, all of which are difficult to remove from the temperature record.

(A) Only urban OSC emission sources including DMS emissions from humans and DMS, DMDS, and MTO from pet waste.

Examples include growing winter cover crops for energy, timber processing wastes, urban waste wood, landfill methane, wood from agroforestry systems that boost productivity, and crop residues that are not otherwise used.

Model additions include results from (i) quantum chemical calculations that clarify the previously uncertain gas phase mechanism of formation of MSA and (ii) a combination of published and experimental estimates of OSC emissions, such as those from marine, agricultural, and urban processes, which include pet waste and human breath.

Starting with reduction and donation, Global Green's team is partnering with urban planners, city agencies and community groups to evaluate how food scraps from a specific neighborhoods can be recovered most efficiently through «Distributed Food Scrap Processing Infrastructure» and increasing the use of compost and other products made from food waste.

For the third year in a row, Sustainia, C40, and Realdania have collected the 100 best urban solutions to climate change from cities around the world, and the 2017 edition of Cities100 presents some extraordinary cases of city climate action within the categories of energy, adaptation, transportation, mitigation, and waste.

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.

Achieving the recovery of 220ppm of CO2 by 2100, and thereby conserving at least a fraction of marine life by steadily reversing acidification, would mean sequestering around 9.2 GtsC / yr for 50 yrs, which would almost certainly require the local processing of additional biomass from urban, farm and forestry wastes.

In Oregon, biomass waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources could generate hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, while electricity could cleanly and affordably power increasing numbers of new advanced vehicles.

Thirdly, urban agriculture and urban forestry contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change by reducing runoff, keeping flood plains free from construction, reducing urban temperatures, capturing dust and CO2, while growing fresh food close to consumers reduces energy spent in transport, cooling, processing and packaging, whilst productive reuse of urban organic wastes and wastewater (and the nutrients these contain) reduces methane emissions from landfills and energy use in fertilizer production.

In many South - East Asian cities, the continuity of the existing potential for growing aquatic vegetables and fish using urban wastewater will depend on the city planners» ability to coordinate and develop strategies for effective separation of toxic industrial waste from domestic sewage.

In many cities, local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic waste (which may cause environmental and health problems).

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

http://www.epa.gov/salish-sea/shellfish-harvesting Nearly 183,000 acres (739 square kilometres) of shellfish beds are currently closed to harvesting in the Georgia Basin, and about 36,000 acres (147 square kilometres) are closed in Puget Sound... The primary sources of pollution that lead to closure of shellfish harvesting areas are polluted runoff from urban areas and farms, and uncontrolled sources of sewage and septic wastes.

Vaute Couture just wrapped up their fall 2010 show, which featured vegan winter coats and introduced knits made from soy bean farming waste, vegan belts made with Ultrasuede EcoDesign and urban snow coats, made with alternative fiber Primaloft ECO, encased in 100 % recycled closed loop ripstop from Tejin EcoCircle, and hand quilted locally in Chicago.

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

Urban myth from ignorance of life in the snowy wastes or deliberate misinformation from AGW to promote the idea that back - radiation from a cold object can heat a warmer object?

Animals serve for the production of different forms of high quality food, animals have served in rites for sacrificial purposes, they can help to upgrade food waste from kitchens and / or agro-industry, they are a form of informal saving and provide cash income, and they provide manure that can be used as fertilizer in urban crop production.