Sentences with phrase «just improve your standard of living»

Making improvements to your house may not just improve your standard of living.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Just 18 % of the 2,053 asked felt that their living standards had improved as a result of the upturn, while a further 10 % were unsure.

Other than the fact that CO2 is necessary to human survival (we breathe it out after processing hydrocarbon food) and for 98 % of the energy that has allowed us to live longer and improve the standard of living over the last 300 years, just why exactly do we even care how much CO2 is in the air, especially if the temp of the ocean which is dictated by the sun, will dictate the air temp.

Arguing for or against what causes global warming isn't particularly useful, let's focus on how to improve the human condition and standards of living, indeed living for future generations and work cooperatively with nature and each other, not mindlessly pollute and degrade or diminish what we have, often to gratify wants, not just needs.

The Africa Inspires project is just the beginning of a long term programme which will, «Create opportunities for trade relationships with communities which could significantly improve living standards, increase access to market, and break cycles of poverty.»

Whether by assisting Indigenous clients in exercising their rights, by supporting aboriginal economic development, or even just by improving the level of understanding of a client's perspective within the system, lawyers can support the progress of Indigenous families and communities toward self - determination and a better standard of living».