Sentences with phrase «lasting impact on the environment»

The purchase of a new mattress can have a lasting impact on the environment.

By doing this we increase sustainability, have a lasting impact on the environment and keep our islands beautiful.

Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said, «Over the century, the oil and gas industry has amassed an injurious track record of oil spills and other environmental disasters, which have had significant, lasting impacts on our environment and public health.

There is no doubt humans have left a lasting impact on the environment since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Like a true servant leader, Hadeed now spends most of her time helping other organizations all over make a lasting, meaningful impact on people by creating environments where they can thrive.

However, it also highlights that extractives companies are particularly vulnerable to poor governance and ethical controversy, and harmful, long - lasting impacts on communities and the environment.

Over the last three years we've invested over # 8million in renewable energy generation to minimise our impact on the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of our products, a quality we know is increasingly important to consumers.»

When purchasing a car seat the last thing we often thing about if at all is its impact on the environment.

Who we are... Bean Products, Inc. is an environmentally sustainable and socially conscious small business located in Chicago Illinois and dedicated to environmentally sustainable manufacturing of well designed, useful, long - lasting products having a minimal impact on our environment.

One, we already talked about in the last segment is kind of reducing your impact on the environment by using a reusable product versus the single use and you see that all over the place with reusable shopping bags and reusable water bottles.

So if you're wanting to have a more positive impact on the environment or you want to invest in a tree that can last with your family for a number of years, see how an artificial tree can benefit you and your family.

The Erie County Environmental Management Council Environmental Excellence Awards Program, started in 2015, recognizes exceptional projects carried out by municipal and non-profit organizations in Erie County that stand to have a significant and lasting positive impact on the natural environment.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Alexander «Pete» Grannis was fired last week for having the courage to speak the truth about the impact threatened layoffs would have on the integrity of his department's responsibility to protect the environment and New Yorkers.

These awards recognize exceptional projects carried out by municipal and non-profit organizations in Erie County that stand to have a significant and lasting positive impact on the natural environment.

Lord Heseltine, who was then the environment secretary, looks back at the bill and gives his thoughts on its lasting impact to Giles Dilnot.

DOE gave the go - ahead to the $ 5.5 million project last year, after concluding that neither facility would have a «significant impact» on the environment.

«The paper policy is an example of how Disney conducts business in an environmentally and socially responsible way, and demonstrates the Company's commitment to creating a lasting, positive impact on ecosystems and communities worldwide,» said Beth Stevens, Disney's senior vice president of corporate citizenship, environment and conservation, in a statement.

The impact your environment has on your mind can not be overstated, and the last thing you want in a mindful space is cold pieces that bring no livelihood.

Something not to ignore is also the impact of the coconut sugar production on the environment which is by far more sustainable and respectful of the earth than e.g. cane sugar production; it was even named the most sustainable sweetener in the world last year, by The United Nations» Food and Agriculture organization.The wholewheat flour can easily be switched to a regular rice flour, or also a regular wheat flour if you don't mind the gluten.

In my last post I talked about how our emphasis on wiping out microorganisms from our environment is impacting our health in a negative way.

At the same time, the broader technological environment has changed dramatically since our last survey on this subject, and this has greatly impacted the ways in which people can seek out, research, meet, and interact with potential partners.

Bringing different types of technology into teaching environments not only makes learning more interesting, but it also provides stimulus to many senses at a time, resulting in a more lasting impact on the student.

The current market environment could have a negative impact on their ability to issue more ABS CDOs and other CDOs, but once things clear up, those that are still in the game of issuing CDOs will make much better interest spreads than they made in the last two years.

Just last week, the Urban Institute reveled data showing what impact substantially lower down payments would have on default rates in today's mortgage environment.

The insulation foam that De Jong employs as his medium, itself a petroleum product, highlights further issues relating to the lasting negative impact that non-biodegradable products have on the environment.

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GRIDA - Climate impacts and tropical diseases in Colombia The GRID - Arendal Maps & Graphics Library is an on - going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web - sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and sustainable development.

Last week I got quite inspired by a rather beautiful video on working less, playing more and reducing our impact on the environment.

The Canadian photographer, Ed Burtynsky, has been photographing the impact of industrialization on the environment for the last 30 years.

In an essay for The Daily Beast last week, Somerhalder talks about the impact of dirty energy money on clean energy policy, and makes a plea to voters to choose candidates who will protect the environment.

As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment.

Pederson, D.C., D.M. Peteet, D. Kurdyla, and T. Guilderson, 2005: Medieval Warming, Little Ice Age, and European impact on the environment during the last millennium in the lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA.

Tom Vilsack even admitted to concern about the mixing of GMO and organic crops but he seemed to go back on that statement last week when the USDA announced that farmers will be allowed to grow genetically modified sugar beets this season, «while [the USDA] finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets» effect on other crops and the environment.»

The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) could have a significant impact on the Canadian class action environment, as it conducts a review of experiences with the Ontario Class Proceedings Act over the last 20 years as requested by the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

It was in my last job, working initially as a lawyer and then as HR Director for a global IT company, that I started to really notice the impact of the work environment on motivation.