Sentences with phrase «industrial agricultural practices»

Can we learn to feed ourselves locally, after decades of reliance on industrial agricultural practices that have taught us to think food comes from grocery stores?

All biofuels based upon industrial agricultural practices have indirect impacts upon land use elsewhere.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

The unfortunate truth is most of the food produced today has had most of the health - promoting components bred out of it through hybridization, genetic manipulation and other modern industrial agricultural practices.

Not exact matches

Brazil's economy has boomed in recent years, on the back of its extensive natural resources and industrial - scale agricultural practices, to become the seventh largest in the world.

Both towns decided to limit commercial solar energy production to industrial zones, prohibiting the practice on agricultural parcels.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

Our environment is awash in pollutants and toxic compounds resulting largely from modern industrial and agricultural practices and products.

Geologists are still debating whether or not an actual geological epoch has begun starting with the Industrial Revolution, or if human agricultural practices which began several thousand years ago are a more adequate marker of the changes that humans have inflicted on the earth's lithosphere.

Caused by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, and other human impacts, climate change has currently raised global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the Industrial Revolution average.

Her environmental law practice focuses on reducing pollution from industrial agricultural operations, protecting and enhancing instream flows for people and fish, and fighting climate change on behalf of young people and future generations.

Mineral dust from anthropogenic sources originates mainly from agricultural practices (harvesting, ploughing, overgrazing), changes in surface water (e.g., Caspian and Aral Sea, Owens Lake) and industrial practices (e.g., cement production, transport)(Prospero et al., 2002).

Most of non-energy emissions stem from land use (especially deforestation in the tropics), agricultural practices (especially the release of methane from cattle production and rice fields, and the release of nitrous oxide from heavily fertilized fields), emissions from landfills and wastewater, and some exotic industrial and chemical processes.

Major Environmental Issues: Soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species is threatened by clearing for agricultural purposes; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources.

Caused by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, and other human impacts, climate change has currently raised temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the Industrial Revolution average.

Hemp History Week 2013 will focus on how industrial hemp can help build a future in which economic growth and sustainable agricultural and manufacturing practices go hand - in - hand.»

Land that has been deforested, polluted by mining, industrial sites or landfill activities, or depleted by over-intensive agricultural practices may be unable to recover naturally.

in fact the long term future of mankind requires that we deal with this issue of developing societies based on sustainable agricultural and industrial practices powered by renewable energy sources...

The government insists the project is the only way to solve north China's chronic water problems, which are exacerbated by industrial uses, agricultural practices, overgrazing and climate change (see an excellent interactive China's Top Water Issues map at PBS).

That implies a reengineering of industrial and agricultural processes, a transformation of land - use practices, and a shift in household consumption.

Due to the nature of his practice, he handled a wide variety of cases including those related to industrial and agricultural products liability, premises liability, false imprisonment, trespass, battery, automotive and tractor - trailer negligence, probate matters, condemnations, land - line disputes and others.

Real Estate Law The real estate law practice at GPS&L utilizes the highly specialized experience of real estate attorneys to serve the legal needs of farmers, developers, brokers, owners, investors and lenders and covers all facets of commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential real estate transactions.