Sentences with phrase «kind of energy economy»

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The ripples are all of the things in the economy that support the energy revolution... that provide all kinds of investment opportunity.»

As is typical in these kinds of reports, the main findings are completely reasonable if not exactly ground - breaking: China needs to increase the share of consumption in its economy, lessen the grip of state - owned enterprises, move toward letting the market more accurately price energy and capital, deal more seriously with environmental degradation, and just generally become a more market - oriented economy.

You know, another point is that even if you put aside those kinds of consequences, the fact is that you are always investing in your energy infrastructure anyway; so for example there are very expensive things you could do that would be involved in trying to change how electricity is distributed across the country to help along, you know, [a] hydrogen based economy.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Because of the ubiquity and diversity of energy use in a modern economy, conventional regulatory approaches — standards of various kinds — simply can not do the job.

The statement reflects no wavering by Obama on his insistence that «the best way for us to transition to a clean energy economy is with a bill that makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses by putting a price on pollution.»

It was the first strategic community planning document of its kind, and went beyond the issues of energy supply, to look at across - the - board creative adaptations in the realms of food, farming, education, economy, health, and much more.

In many cases, they're growing — and kind of like Pat Sajak, it's time to take the Clean Energy Would Kill the Economy show off the air once and for all.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

«But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.

To me this use of screen size classes is a flawed idea — It would be kind of like giving a Hummer an Energy Star label because it has the best fuel economy of the Ultra Pig class.

«But we certainly do want to see Congress — and hopefully they will in the context of this budget agreement — make the kinds of investments in renewable and clean energy that are good for our economy and have the potential to create good American middle - class jobs down the line.»

With Ontario municipalities receiving so little for hosting industrial wind turbines it is surprising the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) when faced with any kind of opposition would issue a press release that claims: «Right now there are literally thousands of Ontarians participating in the province's ground - breaking clean energy ecEnergy Association (CanWEA) when faced with any kind of opposition would issue a press release that claims: «Right now there are literally thousands of Ontarians participating in the province's ground - breaking clean energy ecenergy economy.

Alternatively, if B.C. Hydro were to build the same kind of small B.C. Hydro projects it is now purchasing much of its private energy from, it would benefit from lower borrowing costs and significant economies based on avoiding the expensive duplication inherent in projects built by numerous private developers.

The premise of the Berkeley study is both unique and simple: when people spend less on energy they transfer these dollars to groceries and other goods that boost the overall economy, creating all kinds of jobs.

We'll show our politicians that a continental transition away from fossil fuels and toward a new kind of just economy — centered on 100 % renewable energy — is not only possible but within our grasp.

To talk about energy and the economy is a tautology: every economic activity is fundamentally nothing but a conversion of one kind of energy to another, and monies are just a convenient (and often rather unrepresentative) proxy for valuing the energy flows.