Sentences with phrase «high resource consumption»

The goal is to help raise awareness and facilitate a necessary, informed public debate ahead of several upcoming initiatives that aim to address high resource consumption.

Higher stability armour results in slower movement and higher resource consumption.

Not exact matches

Apple and other technology companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., that build and run computer server farms have come under criticism for their high consumption of electricity and other resources.

More sustainable demand (in the form of needed infrastructure or of higher consumption by wealthier workers) will lead to more productive investment by redeploying underutilized resources, including unemployed workers.

Yes, and there are 300 million citizens in the US and they can't stop from shooting each other and putting each other behind bars, and ruining the world banking system with dubious methods and instruments and wreck people's retirement savings all over the world, not to mention the high abortion rate, murder rate and consumption of resources rate... It's just a disorganized disaster, as opposed to the Nazi's who had an organized disaster.

«In short, we need less production, less consumption, [and] a higher tax on imported resources and the discharging of wastes.»

For this reason, this type of rainwater harvesting system is particularly recommendable in districts with high population densities, such as (in Barcelona) Sants, Verdun, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni or el Guinardó, whose consumption of resources per m3 is up to 40 % lower than that of districts like Pedralbes, Sarrià, la Clota, el Bon Pastor, Vall d'Hebron or Vallvidrera.

Daily medium exchanges help alleviate cellular stresses associated with pH changes and resource consumption due to the high cell density of the culture.

Start the education young, perhaps we should be engaging students by discussing their definitions of happiness and a quality of life, and whether they are correlated with high levels of consumption and resource use.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 15 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 93 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (21 sheets) Unit's lessons include: * Introduction to the AQA GCSE Media Studies course requirements * Introduction to the four key concepts * Activity focused on pupils» own consumption of media texts * Detailed research into the history of the media - creating a timeline of people, technology and institutions * Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to film media * Introduction of camera shots, angles and movement * Film terminology «speed - dating» to introuce key media language * Analysing a mise - en - scene * Analysing a film trailer: genre conventions and audience appeal * Creating genre - specific typography and writing a commentary * Analysing logos and slogans * Exploring stereotypes in the media * Music industry terminology and genre features * Analysing a CD album sleeve: genre conventions and audience appeal * The history ofvideo gaming * Video gaming genres and gratifications * Analysing a video game cover: genre conventions and audience appeal

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore connotation and denotation - explore camera angles and make inferences - analyse movie posters - analyse magazine covers - explore radio audiences - explore mass and niche audiences - explore demographics, geo - demographics and psychographics - conduct primary and secondary research - gather qualitative and quantitative data - create questionnaires - investigate media language and signs - explore representation - analyse own media consumption - investigate audience profiles for television - investigate newspaper audiences

Determined to reduce the consumption of resources, both natural and financial, the Board of Directors of Noah's Ark set out to meet the highest standards of animal sheltering in an eco-friendly way in the design and construction of its new shelter building.

Thank you Betty Chambers for your tasteless disregard of the truth that the reckless and wasteful resource consumption of the United States adds up to over 22 % of the world's Carbon dioxide emissions, the highest per - capita in the world (if it's not because of our «wealthy» lifestyle in the west, then why is it?).

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.

High levels of population and economic growth will push up against resource scarcity, and push prices up, and this will push growth and consumption down.

The developing world can not ever even begin to approach the high level of consumption maintained in the United States and Europe, because there are simply not enough resources on the planet.

And by lowering consumption, energy efficiency will stretch the available rooftop solar resource farther, allowing solar to serve a higher percent of residential consumption while also allowing a smaller and less expensive solar system.

«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.»

Site - based regulations, such as appliance efficiency standards and measurement, can lead to higher energy resource consumption as well as higher levels of pollution.

Kelly Sims Gallagher, who directs the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School, said to Mashable: «Obviously it is not good news that China's coal consumption was much higher than previously thought, but it is heartening that China corrected the data and reported it transparently.»

The unique development of Dubai has thoroughly encountered critical challenges such as limited natural resources and high energy consumption per capita relevant to the existing arid climate.

Transmitting power from SA to the eastern states would be a practicality, while perhaps progressively moving high consumption industries such as aluminium smelting from the mainland eastern states to WA could be considered if the wind resource is to be utilised and Australia's greenhouse gas production rates reduced.

Perhaps by focusing on what really matters to Americans — a high quality of life including the basics in food and shelter, strong relationships with others, rewarding experiences and good health, we'll drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and other dwindling resources.

Heavy red meat consumption has been linked to higher cancer rates; beef emits 20 times more greenhouse gases than beans; and industrial animal agriculture is a resource - intensive, highly polluting industry.

However, overall inequality in resource consumption and waste generation is greater than what these comparisons between countries demonstrate since resource consumption within countries is skewed towards higher income groups.

Jones notes that brain functioning requires a high proportion of our body's energy resources, compared to other organs — up to 20 per cent of our total energy consumption at any given moment.

Peter WarwickFor a bio look here, a veteran Thomson manager who took over as CEO of Thomson West in January, said his mission is to push the Eagan - based company's annual growth rate to the high - single - digit range by integrating and customizing legal and other resources for online and print consumption by customers from several fields.

Communicated regularly with applications development and business analyst teams to work on high - priority architecture initiatives that improve system performance, reduce resource consumption and reduce development efforts.

United States Air Force (Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates) 2008 — 2009 Operations Manager / Resource Advisor • Serve as Programs Flight Chief of the 380th Equipment Maintenance Group responsible for $ 3M budget • Plan, direct, and oversee three operation cells dealing with emergency management • Categorize, prioritize, and communicate all incidents including base attacks, and disasters to the Emergency Operations Cell • Dispatch quick reaction forces and Emergency Response teams to breaches in security and to treat wounded personnel • Negotiate and execute $ 3,000,000 paint contract with three one year renewal options • Perform contract surveillance on paint / mezzanine contract for back shop operations • Establish Indefinite Quantity purchase of aircraft synthetic oil and sole sourced supplies to ensure fleet health • Target high use supply items, forecast consumption rates, and prevent loss of production do to non-availability

The Water Amendment Bill 2008, defines critical human water needs as the needs for a minimum amount of water, that can only reasonably be provided from Basin water resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security costs.

Washington is tied with four other states for the highest percentage of energy consumption from renewable resources and has the second - highest water quality and the third - highest soil quality of the 50 states.

Maine is tied with four other states for the highest percentage of energy consumption from renewable resources and has the highest percentage of recycled solid municipal waste of the 50 states.

This holds true at the Board level and at the office level as well where the high roller Realtors consume massive amounts of resources, yet we all pay the same and I end up funding that consumption as well.