Sentences with phrase «how global consumption»

The increases imposed on the price of crude oil by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) since 1973 show how global consumption can change.

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Talking of Global precedents, Russia was the first to observe a «Crypto Hour» earlier this year to raise awareness around how cryptocurrency mining is a major source of energy consumption and about the need for a cleaner alternative to mining.

Dazeinfo had a chance to catch up with Mukund and pick his brains to understand why many Indian startups are not able to make it to the global platform, how Big Data plays a vital role in startup growth and despite of seeing so much potential in Big Data, why are Indian startups not prioritizing the consumption of data?

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

This video: New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) video, Global Sodium Consumption, evaluated them and these are discussed in detail in the post, WHOLE FOODS & SALT: HOW MUCH, AUTOIMMUNITY, & IODINE?

Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.

The 2018 Global Digital Future in Focus provides a snapshot of desktop, smartphone and tablet usage around the globe, examining how audiences and content consumption changed over the... Read more

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

Perhaps now is an appropriate occasion to discuss how the family of humanity could begin the limit INCREASES ONLY in the growth of unrestricted per - capita consumption of Earth's resources, untethered economic globalization, and skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

Does anybody here know roughly how many tonnes of CO2 is released into the global atmosphere daily by just the consumption of carbonated drinks, eg: coke, fanta even sparkling mineral water and all the aerosol cans that use compressed CO2 as the propellant.

This new book explores issues related to simplicity and time, technology, consumption and the media, and provides an opportunity to reconnect with your values while discovering how simple living intersects with sustainability — at the personal and global levels.

A new grand solar minimum would not trigger another LIA; in fact, the maximum 0.3 °C cooling would barely make a dent in the human - caused global warming over the next century, likely between 1 and 5 °C, depending on how much we manage to reduce our fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

How exactly does extreme conspicuous consumption fight global warming?

UNEP Publications: This report explores how the management of land - based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole.

How hot is it going to get if global coal consumption peaks at 7 billion tons per year, oil consumption peaks at 100 million barrels per day and natural gas consumption peaks at 150 trillion cubic feet per year?

Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.

Depending how it's tallied, fossil fuels account for between 85 - 88 % of global energy consumption and more than 95 % of energy for the transport of people and goods, including our food.

With the release of the «Hydrogen Scaling up», the coalition explains how hydrogen can account for one fifth of the global final energy consumption by 2050 and contribute to almost 20 percent of the abatement required to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius reducing pressure on renewables and other clean energy technologies.

Check out how Samsung is trying to lead the way in trimming our global energy consumption (even as our demand seems to grow) and how it is cleaning up after itself in the e-waste area.

Of course, simplifying anything too much will lead to experts and more - informed viewers criticizing the work for oversimplifying the subject matter - and as I'll discuss below, even TreeHugger has written about the problems with this oversimplification - but in order for anyone to understand something as complex as how global trade, manufacturing and consumption functions in modern society, it can be helpful to start with a basic overview so the average person can more easily digest the material.

To give you an idea of how pie in the sky the paper is, consider that their most conservative land only estimate of 18 — 34 TW is in excess of the total global energy consumption rate from all sources (15 TW).

From climate change to the rights of Florida tomato farmers to the global geopolitics of food, Hungry for Change examines how the availability of food and its production, distribution and consumption are the workings of a deeply complex system that is affected by and affects all of us.