Sentences with phrase «good about their carbon footprint»

Guests can embrace the local surroundings (say, by sipping Portuguese wines in the Douro Valley) and feel good about their carbon footprint, too, since energy - efficiency and waste - management procedures are strictly followed.

Not exact matches

In addition, «We are proud of the many initiatives, such as single stream recycling, energy conservation and high - efficiency lighting that have allowed us to reduce our carbon footprint and feel good about our corporate responsibility,» Robert adds.

So too do a growing number of well - funded start - ups trying to make meat without animals, with a view to addressing concerns about animal welfare and the carbon footprint of meat.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

Assuming that the kosher consumer replaces the average American's four pounds of shrimp a year (and its 9.79 pounds, or 4.4 kilograms, of carbon dioxide emissions) with another fish, Canadian North Atlantic herring is a good choice: it takes around 5.28 gallons (20 liters) of fuel to purse seine (net using two trawlers) a metric ton of these small fish, according to Dalhousie, releasing about 117 pounds (53 kilograms) of carbon dioxide — meaning four pounds of herring have a carbon footprint of a mere 0.21 pound (0.09 kilogram).

When you're heading down I - 95 towards Riverside Commons, feel free to stop at Starbucks for a cup of coffee and feel good about reducing your carbon footprint with the Prius.

See places only locals know about, find the best spots to cast a line, and minimise your carbon footprint while you travel.

A lot of others would like to, but employers have not been crazy about it, even though it can cut overhead as well as your company's carbon footprint.

Best of all, you can feel good about shrinking your carbon footprint and doing your part to protect the planet.

Paul Stradins will examine the cell and module technologies currently on the cusp of market introduction 12:20 Discussion 12:25 Pitch 1: Heraeus 12:35 Discussion and voting 12:39 Pitch 2: SunPower will pitch on the cost savings available with their new p line modules 12:44 Discussion and voting 12:48 Pitch 3: GCL will talk about the combination of PERC with black silicon 12:53 Discussion and voting 12:57 Pitch 4: Hanwha Q - CELLS with the thesis «Steel frame PV modules with advanced cell technologies enable the reduction of ~ 20 % in the installation and material costs of PV plants, as well as > 15 % in the manufacturing carbon footprint of PV modules.

Some of this gas inevitably escaped into the environment, even though it was trapped as well as possible, and since it is about 17000 times as powerful as a global warming gas as CO 2, it had an effect on the carbon footprints of the cells.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

As it turns out, the carbon footprint of every cheeseburger is about 6.3 to 6.8 pounds; this calculation includes a myriad of factors from growing the feed for the cattle for the beef and cheese, growing the produce, storing and transporting the components, as well as cooking them all.

Of course, the role of a CSA in providing community support to one farmer is about the best example of why local food is about much more than just carbon footprints too.

says you'll be forced to: Address living well without modern so - called conveniences; think about «which expenses actually make me happy and improve my family's quality of life» and which ones «just eat away at my time and money»; and, importantly (it is Climate Week, even though really every week is climate week, recognized or not), start really thinking about what your carbon footprint is really like.

My best guess is that the poster's carbon footprint is about 2 / 3rds of what he thought.

«The Sustainable Lawyer, an extension of the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, will provide brief posts providing tips and best practices on the greening of the legal profession, interviews with green mavens in law offices and law firms, stories about opportunities to do green pro bono or community service work, and accounts of lawyers in a variety of settings working to reduce their carbon footprints.»

Home energy audits give homeowners the benefit of learning more about their house (or prospective property) by evaluating its energy efficiency and pointing the way to improvements that could increase efficiency and reduce energy costs, as well as a house's carbon footprint.

«Our carbon fiber footprint is only about 5 percent of traditional construction, and we're repurposing these containers for higher and better use that will save owners money.»