Sentences with phrase «larger carbon footprint»

It creates issues of sustainability — more computing power means a larger carbon footprint — and accessibility (mining hardware is expensive).

The irony here is that having a planet of travellers comes with a much larger carbon footprint, and as Rand writes, «we'll never go without long distance air travel... it's part of the glue that makes us a global community.»

Setting aside 30 percent of the oceans as no - take MPAs would mean more terrestrial food production, he argued, and the extra forests converted to farmland and livestock would generate a significantly larger carbon footprint than fishing.

This is attributing to the fact that their stomachs can produce methane, and methane emissions from cows have a larger carbon footprint than cars.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

Homes that heat with oil or natural gas currently have a larger carbon footprint.

Most clay litters are not biodegradable and have a much larger carbon footprint.

After thinking about how people use up resources (e.g., riding in a car instead of walking or biking to school), teams describe ways that people contribute to a larger carbon footprint.

But it's important to remember that «organic» doesn't mean the food is grown locally — it may even be grown in a foreign country and shipped to the U.S. resulting in a larger carbon footprint and smaller benefit to the environment.

A new study by Argonne and Northwestern scientists reported that solar panels manufactured in China are likely to use more energy to make and have a larger carbon footprint than those made in Europe.

Traditional rustic shade has a larger carbon footprint than commercial polyculture because yields are lower per unit area, and all the contributing factors are allocated to less product.

Environmentally speaking, if you look at it simply, more processing = more energy used = a larger carbon footprint.

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

While breast milk can be considered carbon neutral, infant formula possesses a very large carbon footprint.

«The agricultural market might seem smaller, but it has a very large carbon footprint, and turning acid whey into a feedstock that animals can eat is an important example of the closed cycles that we need in a sustainable society,» Angenent says.

Second - hand and recycled gifts are encouraged this year, and for that person who has everything — including a large carbon footprint — Origin Energy (www.originenergy.com.au) and Climate Friendly (www.climate friendly.com) offer gift certificates that offset carbon emissions.

Australia is levying a new carbon tax, stating that what the government considers «big polluters,» or those who contribute a large carbon footprint, will be penalized.

There are probably a few million Americans with smaller carbon footprints than mine, but there are a couple hundred million with larger carbon footprints.

Beef production has garnered a negative reputation for having a large carbon footprint and for destroying habitat, notably in the Brazilian Amazon.

45 Gareth John Evans: «1) Nuclear Power — actually has a large carbon footprint in life cycle terms.

Using a hybrid 9:1 ratio of wood to steel, Sumitomo Forestry aims to replace concrete, which is one of the world's largest carbon footprint contributors.

While agriculture has been historically criticized for its large carbon footprint, carbon sequestration in soils has the potential to turn agriculture into climate's biggest asset.

Switzerland has a large carbon footprint as a percentage of total Ecological footprint, particularly compared to other European countries.

And when it comes to which popular destinations have the largest carbon footprints, it's America for the gold again.

Taking data from the California Consumption Based Emissions Inventory, it illustrates the reality of our large carbon footprint from the goods and services we consume.

We are sufferers of a large carbon footprint because of our high proportion of out of town commuters.

I hear you have one of the worlds largest carbon footprints.

Few refugees from Iraq, Darfur, Zimbabwe manage to get all the way to Britain without a large carbon footprint, neither can tourists from beyond Europe.

Those with large carbon footprints — like the very rich, with multiple large homes, for example — would bear the brunt.

Healthcare also accounts for a big slice of the EU's output of greenhouse gases: the 15,000 + hospitals within the EU's borders create a large carbon footprint.

For one thing, Dr. Pachauri has one of the largest carbon footprints on the planet.

Farmers who have local renewable generating capacity may not draw from the grid, and of course in areas where the preponderance of demand is nuclear or hydro or a renewable, then the fertilizer needed would not have a large carbon footprint.

So if I drive a huge car, and have a large electricity bill, and leave my lights and electronic equipment on day and night, then I have a large carbon footprint.

A large carbon footprint is bad.

What the researchers found was that not all sandwiches are created equal and that some varieties have larger carbon footprints than others.

«Take the amount of concrete used in construction in cities,» Schwarze says, noting the volume required in urban construction and its large carbon footprint (the cement industry is one of the primary producers of carbon dioxide).

Unfortunately, making concrete creates a large carbon footprint.

High turnover is no excuse for your brokerage's large carbon footprint.

Not exact matches

Some of the world's largest and most successful companies signed pledges to greatly reduce their carbon footprints heading into the meeting.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

My family's collective carbon footprint is... rather large.

A report from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, estimated that throughout its entire life, a large building made mostly from wood would have a carbon footprint a third smaller than a comparable one made from steel or concrete.

One of the largest contributors to liquid milk's carbon footprint is enteric methane — gas emitted by the animal, research has found.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

A CoolClimate Map of New York City's carbon footprint by zipcode tabulation area shows a pattern typical of large metropolitan areas: a small footprint in the urban core but a large footprint in surrounding suburbs.

Researchers concluded that the crime that generates the largest proportion of the criminal carbon footprint is burglary — breaking and entering with the intent to commit a crime — generating about 30 % of the total.

Our ancestors» carbon footprint was also surprisingly large.

The most common current treatment, reverse osmosis, has a very high carbon footprint and generates large volumes of reject water containing radioactivity that requires further treatment.