Sentences with phrase «into waste land»

Acting out their true nature as rapacious locusts, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his cronies with their mercantilist politics have turned Yorùbá land into waste land.

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A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

Noah builds a boat to collect, house, feed and dispose of the wastes of 2 of every species of critter for 40 days and magically deposit them all back into their indigenous lands across the globe.

A polluter finds it advantageous to discharge his wastes into public land, air, or water.

Can you imagine the good we could do if all the money, land, time and other recourses we waste worshiping the non-existent were instead funneled into doing something real, tangible and beneficial?

It is an excess in an age where almost a billion people go hungry, and represents a waste of the labour, water, energy, land and other inputs that went into producing that food.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.

Reducing food losses & food waste (FLW) is a key global challenge to ensure sufficient and healthy food into the future, and to use available arable land as efficiently as possible.

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

Since 1902 faecal waste generated within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area has been directly discharged into the sea at portion of land famously called the Lavender Hill.

Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste - lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Through the 12 - question survey, the new group hopes to bring local environmental concerns into the forefront this election year and to force candidates to take a public stance on everything from noise pollution and water quality to land preservation and waste management.

At the time, the town and county were considering giving land next to the landfill to a Canadian company, to build a plant that would convert biosolid waste into fertilizer.

«The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier — from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area — and the green roof industry can turn these wasted spaces into a force for cleaner air, cleaner water, energy savings, cooling, beauty and recreation,» he says.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.

Scientific and political leaders have identified the need to improve land - based waste management — particularly in rapidly industrializing economies — as the single most important step we can take to reduce the flow of waste into the ocean.

This will help improve user compliance with best waste management practices, which in turn would reduce overall amounts of solid waste introduced into the ocean from land - based sources.

No stranger to surfing - related promotional efforts, Land Rover has decided to dip its feet into the shaping industry as part of its long - term zero waste strategy.

Due to the septic tank system, non-organic waste will fill the septic tanks causing grey water to flow into the land and sea.

They can refill their sleep meter by landing on a sleep space, but should the meter run out entirely, the baby falls asleep and is taken to the crib, with their next turn being wasted on get back into the game.

We warn about the PHYSICAL impacts of Sea Level Rise, but I don't see any info or concern about the early effects of inundations into the lowlands, where these include Contaminated Land, Landfills, Cemeteries, Toxic / Radioactive waste, Repositories, Ammunition dumps, Underground fuel stores, Plague / Ebola / Foot & Mouth / Anthrax pits or those harbouring other virulent pathogens with pandemic potential.

The destruction of mountains, streams, rivers and groundwater, the destruction of land laid waste by strip - mining, the loss of wildlife in these areas, the human illnesses and premature deaths that result from these practices especially in Appalachia, the CO2 emissions and resulting climate change along with the havoc this causes — all of these are externalities that do not enter into the price companies pay to mine the stuff or the costs we pay to turn on the a.c.

The BLM's rule will also bring millions of dollars into the public coffers as drilling companies must pay royalties when they waste natural gas on public lands.

So what I'm doing to meet local code and respect the land owner is bagging the waste every few weeks into a biodegradable «plastic» bag and then sending it along with the city trash; at that point its essentially like a diaper, but the plastic will break down in a landfill quickly.

«Decarbonization of heavy industry and aviation will be difficult, which makes converting industrial waste gases into low - carbon jet fuel a fascinating prospect,» said James Beard, climate and aviation specialist at WWF in the U.K. «All airlines should pursue the development of genuinely sustainable, low - carbon fuels that are certified to minimize indirect land use change.»

The RUAF Foundation organises electronic conferences in cooperation with leading international organisations, including E-conferences on: «Urban agriculture, nutrition and health» with UN FAO (Rome); «Integration of urban agriculture into urban land use planning» with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic wastes and wastewater» with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherlands).

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

A new study, Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, published in the journal Science last week, estimated that plastic debris washing into the ocean from 192 coastal countries reached somewhere between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons in 2010.

Underneath the toilet seat is a system for turning your unsanitary waste into clean compost that you can use to fertilize the land around you.