Sentences with phrase «human footprint as»

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They tell us that they have arrived at an unshakable conviction, not based on inference but on immediate experience, that God is a spirit with whom the human spirit can hold intercourse; that in him meet all that they can imagine of goodness, truth, and beauty that they can see his footprints everywhere in nature, and feel his presence within them as the very life of their life, so that in proportion as they come to themselves they come to him.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

Whether the human origins research community will accept fossil footprints as conclusive evidence of the presence of hominins in the Miocene of Crete remains to be seen,» says Per Ahlberg.

Navulur said that satellite imagery provides such a precise view from space «that we are able to proactively observe environmental changes which unravel human footprints from thousands of years ago, such as the Ararat anomaly, and contribute to space archeology in a real and meaningful manner.»

Follow the progress of a team of scientists as they realise they have uncovered human footprints that are around 900,000 years old.

While Longobardi's Drifters Project functions in the world of the real, these paintings explore the imaginary and near - real and envision a lessened human footprint and nature as an ultimately powerful and enduring presence.

With climate change, as with ozone depletion, the human footprint on Earth is apparent.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Besides, there's a growing scientific consensus that the contemporary human footprint — our cities, suburban sprawl, dams, agriculture, greenhouse gases, etc. — has so massively transformed the planet as to usher in a new geological epoch.

Living in a Tiny House carries a much smaller environmental footprint, reduces the amount of resources we as humans consume to live, and encourages us to consume less in general.

Current Ecological Footprint accounts provide a robust, aggregate estimate of human demand on the biosphere as compared to the biosphere's productive capacity.

The commission's Kirsten Isensee said: «Ocean deoxygenation is taking place all over the world as a result of the human footprint, therefore we also need to address it globally.»

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

Yet even as a measure of the human carbon footprint, the EF uses an arbitrary methodology that is highly sensitive to its authors» assumptions.

On the global scale, when the footprint of consumption exceeds biocapacity, the interpretation is that humans are exceeding the regenerative capacity of Earth's ecosystems and therefore depleting stocks of natural capital, a state known as «overshoot» [19].

By setting out to create a positive, regenerative human footprint, by tapping local energy flows and integrating building and landscape, the design outperforms buildings that set energy efficiency as their highest goal.

When we finally reduce carbon footprints, it is likely the sea can breathe easier, but human ecologies must soon recover their ethics as far as all of these neglected species are concerned.

The carbon footprint can be explained as the amount of carbon put into the atmosphere by human beings.

«an ever - lighter footprint than the material it replaces across key environmental and social impact areas such as fossil resource use, human rights and climate change.»

«But this could become a problem in more places as human footprint on the landscape grows.»

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

Earth's systems simply can't support these numbers, even if we all did our best to live ethically and keep a small pollution footprint etc... we've been detached and removed from our food sources and the natural systems which used to sustain us as human beings; this greed - driven, money - orientated process, has created a population that is far outstripping the earth's ability to support it, and there's no way back.

He will discuss Cradle to Cradle as a design protocol that can change how we make things — products, architecture, cities, and more — and help us think about the human footprint in positive terms, rather than something to be minimized toward a goal of zero.

Realistically, either State A or State B could prosecute for conspiracy to murder as an additional charge, because the conspiracy clearly spanned more than one state, even if they can't prove where the crime was committed, although physical evidence (e.g. traces of camp sites, footprints, testimony about landmarks, evidence of poop with human DNA from the victim in it), would usually make it possible to show that some part of the crime was committed in the state.

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