Sentences with phrase «in nonrenewable»

This is an accounting trick of sorts so the island generates as much energy from renewables as it consumes in nonrenewable diesel and gasoline.

Not exact matches

«The widely recited rhetoric that Canada must continue its de facto energy strategy of liquidating its remaining nonrenewable resources as fast as possible to maintain the economy has no credibility,» concluded Hughes in his report.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

We are decimating the natural environment, drawing down the nonrenewable resources of the planet at an astonishing rate, thereby accelerating the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million - year - old species — all in a few decades.

Growth is halted in this run through the effects of nonrenewable resource depletion [emphasis added].

Today we might add a fourth: ecological viability, in the double sense of reducing consumption of nonrenewable resources and protecting the ecosystem against disastrous pollution.

Murray Bowen has been examining the forces in contemporary society that increase stress on families and render them highly vulnerable to dysfunction — e.g., the frantic pace of life, the loss of supportive contact with the extended family, the pressures caused by the population explosion and the depletion of nonrenewable resources.

We have limited our calculations to this, and we have used oil as the most important form of nonrenewable energy, treating other forms in terms of their equivalence in oil.

Given the present ecological realities of rising consumption and dwindling natural resources, can we be content with a situation in which 1 / 16th of the world's people use up at least 1/3 of the world's nonrenewable raw materials?

The deterioration of natural productive systems in the many ways so far discussed exemplifies the ecological principle that over-use converts renewable resources into nonrenewable ones.

At the same time we are in many respects depleting humankind's nonrenewable resources.

«Put as little as 20 percent biofuel into nonrenewable fuels — coal - to - liquid and gas - to - liquid — you can be carbon neutral in a mix,» CAAFI's Altman says.

If most of us expect to live possibly indefinitely in good health, there is a strong motivation to help protect humanity from long - term risks like extinction from a new pandemic, the exhaustion of key nonrenewable resources, global nuclear warfare — or a meteor strike.

The results are much more divided when it comes to support for nonrenewable energy sources like offshore drilling (52 % oppose while 45 % are in favor of expansion in this area) and coal mining (57 % are opposed and 41 % are in favor of expansion).

With the rising cost of nonrenewable energy sources and the declining costs of producing energy from renewable sources, demand for highly skilled professionals in the solar energy field is increasing both in the United States and in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

In contrast to the more common alternative — petrolatum (aka petroleum jelly), a nonrenewable and potentially irritating ingredient — the aforementioned emollients offer both effectiveness and environmental peace of mind.

In other words, it is the use of natural resources in order to allow the replenishment of renewable resources and the sparingly and efficient use of the nonrenewablIn other words, it is the use of natural resources in order to allow the replenishment of renewable resources and the sparingly and efficient use of the nonrenewablin order to allow the replenishment of renewable resources and the sparingly and efficient use of the nonrenewable.

All professional certificates, except a nonrenewable professional certificate, shall be renewable for successive periods not to exceed 5 years after the date of submission of documentation of completion of the requirements for renewal provided in subsection (3).

Some of the DPI's proposed changes include allowing educators 55 and older to apply for a five - year, nonrenewable license without having to meet professional development requirements, increasing the time a substitute can be in the same assignment, expanding renewal options for emergency licenses and expanding the pathway for teachers to add additional licenses based on content tests.

With quiet, reassuring confidence effective Catholic school leaders therefore operate with an appropriate sense of urgency, knowing that time is a precious and nonrenewable resource — and knowing their school communities may never be more ready or eager to be led in a bold new direction.

Allowing educators near or in retirement to apply for a nonrenewable, five - year license without professional development requirements.

Among them are allowing educators near or in retirement to apply for a nonrenewable, five - year license without professional development requirem...

In the Classroom: In Allan Drummond's Energy Island, classmates brainstorm ways to make their island less dependent on nonrenewable energy sources and use less electricity.

In order to develop them companies need to engage in the mining of nonrenewable minerals, like columbite - tantalite, which sometimes come from politically unstable regions such as the CongIn order to develop them companies need to engage in the mining of nonrenewable minerals, like columbite - tantalite, which sometimes come from politically unstable regions such as the Congin the mining of nonrenewable minerals, like columbite - tantalite, which sometimes come from politically unstable regions such as the Congo.

In the Classroom: Use poems to jump - start a discussion of earth's renewable resources — including air, plants, water, and animals — and nonrenewable resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

That while they don't have a 100 percent Ingeo structure today, which is fully compostable, their first step, launching now, replaces 1/3 of the nonrenewable materials in the bag, and they've firmly set their sites on, and are fully committed to having a 100 percent Ingeo structure by this time in 2010.

Sadly, it will be either gas taxes and / or diminishing supplies of this nonrenewable resource that will encourage consumers to stop driving and wasting energy, and, in effect, reduce the «pressure at the pump».

The difference between Non-renewable and renewable energy sources are distinct; nonrenewable energies take several years to form, and can not be regenerated in a short time period: While on the other hand; renewable energies can be regenerated or replenished at a comparable rate of consumption.

In the 1969 book «Resources and Man» by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, it says in the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materialIn the 1969 book «Resources and Man» by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, it says in the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materialin the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materials.

Muhammad, Shahbaz Shabbir and Muhammad, Zeshan and Muhammad, Shahbaz (2011): Renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption, real GDP and CO2 emissions nexus: a structural VAR approach in Pakistan.

In addition, the parking and roadway surfaces required to support vehicular travel consume land and nonrenewable resources, disrupt natural rainwater flow, and enlarge urban heat islands.

Others, such as petroleum and natural gas, are available in limited quantities and are considered nonrenewable.

23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute — acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel

Evan Halper's December 2 article in the Los Angeles Times, «Power Struggle: Green energy versus a grid that's not ready» perpetuates the false narrative that renewable energy increases the risk of blackouts, when in fact the problem is centralized fossil fuel nonrenewable generation.

And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.

With the rising cost of nonrenewable energy sources and the declining costs of producing energy from renewable sources, demand for highly skilled professionals in the solar energy field is increasing both in the United States and in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.

Since these are nonrenewable sources of energy, there has been a steep decline in energy reserves.

When Ehrlich predicted the imminent exhaustion of many nonrenewable natural resources, Simon challenged him: Pick a «basket» of any five such commodities, and I will wager that in a decade the price of the basket will decline, indicating decreased scarcity.

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

Green design can loosely be defined in terms of a set of objectives: to reduce the use of nonrenewable resources, both in the manufacturing process and in the finished object or building itself; to enhance the lives not just of users but also of everyone in the supply chain; and to minimize the environmental impact of the product or building during and after its useful life.

The primary reason why term life insurance rates are typically less, is that term is considered a temporary policy and at some point in time will become nonrenewable.