Sentences with phrase «less consumption of»

Positives of the Agency's decision are: reduced dependence on foreign oil; less consumption of deep - water rig produced oil; diverting high fructose corn syrup (HCFC) from our guts to our cars; and, more votes for Congressional candidates who support the action.

Facebook: More clean energy means less exposure to harmful emissions and less consumption of natural resources

ore clean energy means less exposure to harmful emissions and less consumption of natural resources

Just as I stated a few comments earlier with BaustinB, the WHOLE point of driving hybrid and alternative vehicles is to reduce pollution in addition to less consumption of fuel whether it be petroleum or electricity.

There are efficiencies at one end of the scale that merely continue the trend to increased carbon intensity — less consumption of energy for each unit of production — seen in recent decades.

The GreenEdge speakers produce a higher output of sound with the same power or less consumption of conventional models.

Smaller batteries, less consumption of energy and a surprisingly quick 0 -60-mph time of just 6.6 seconds.

Also as noted other parts of the world food habits are different for example less consumption of meat.

Not exact matches

So if a person plus their luggage is less than that, taking into account food consumption and life - support, then we think that the cost of moving to Mars could drop below $ 100,000.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

Amidst all the hype about a larger iPhone and the possibility of an iWatch, the company's latest product may signal a less obvious consumption shift: the era of the mobile wallet is finally, finally here.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture recommended on Thursday that Americans consume less than 10 % of their daily calories from added sugars, a far more specific suggestion than the previous one to simply «reduce» sugar consumption.

Growth through consumption, or as one of my less charitable colleagues calls it, «The Augustus Gloop School of Economics,» fundamentally misunderstands how economies operate.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

Luisa Gagliardi of the University of Geneva studied more than one million housing transactions in British cities between 1995 and 2001 and found that highly educated workers» «consumption of amenities» — restaurant meals, park visits, etc. — was 10 % greater than that of less educated workers who earned the same income.

The researchers theorize that materialism — and reminders of conspicuous consumption — makes people less empathetic toward their fellow human.

This sort of deep sleep accounts for less than 30 percent of the average person's slumber, but it can be diminished by sleep interruptions as well as alcohol and caffeine consumption.

Apple's announcement comes less than a week after the search giant revealed it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of its energy consumption.

The data from the Prius dashboard gives drivers real - time feedback on their fuel consumption, which leads to a series of behavioral micro-adjustments in how they drive — a little less pedal to the metal at the traffic light, a little more coasting on the downhill.

Energy research group IHS CERA calculates that fully one - half the U.S. shale resource — a 30 - year supply at today's rate of consumption — could be produced at today's prices or less, meaning the market can accommodate a jump in demand without a corresponding price increase.

Having increased their borrowing, households are less inclined to let consumption growth run ahead of growth in incomes for too long.

Individual tax cuts seem likely to goose consumption, although the largest beneficiaries of the tax cuts — higher - income earners — may be less likely to spend those savings.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

Some may argue this comparison is too simplistic and «apples to oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.

Asset holdings are lower in states with high exemptions, suggesting that the consumption smoothing result is driven by lack of self - insurance, not by less access to credit.

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Gross domestic product (GDP): The total value of goods and services produced by the economy, the sum of aggregate consumption, investment, government purchases, and exports, less the value of imports.

We know that the truck uses four independent electric motors that are derived from the Model 3, that it has an energy consumption of less than 2 kWh per mile, and that it can be charged to up to 400 miles in about half an hour.

German retail sales see modest rise in March German retail sales rose less than expected in March, preliminary data showed on Monday, raising concerns about the support that private consumption can provide for the German economy in a period of flagging global demand.

In sophisticated economies, the impact of consumption may be less than in emerging economies that are largely import - export driven, but the consumption magnitude is even more pronounced due to both a greater wealth effect and standard of living that enable individuals to spend more freely with disposable income.

If interest rates rise, the «substitution effect» has a negative sign on consumption: the opportunity cost of consumption in period one has risen, this encourages us to save more and consume less.

I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

Since retirement I drive far less so gas consumption is less, but so is the actual cost of mileage and I expect my car, tires etc will last longer.

The fixed - weight deflator for private consumption rose by 1.5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, while the broader fixed - weight deflators also showed increases of less than 2 per cent.

Wealth was in no way nearly as abundant, and thus the problem of consumption and ownership of possessions was far less acute.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

An export - oriented economy condemns West China to the status of an economic hinterland, but industrialization oriented to Chinese consumption can be far less concentrated on the coast.

In these and other ways production for local consumption is far less costly to the planet than the present system of global interdependence.

That means in this instance that economists refuse to judge whether it is better to add to the consumption of one person rather than another, that is, they are unwilling to judge that the increase of wellbeing in toto will be less when a hundred dollars is added to the income of a rich person than when it adds to the income of a poor one.

The ideology devoted to encouraging consumption wants to shrivel our imaginations so that we can not conceive of living in any way that would be less profitable for the dominant corporate structures.

Reduce your consumption of sugar to less than four to six teaspoons a day.

While many people might not want to consume this amount of crimini mushrooms on a daily basis, we suspect that less frequent consumption would also have resulted in important antioxidant benefits, although probably not as extensive as the benefits demonstrated in this study.

Some of the lowest quality grain goes into animal feed - you don't want to buy grain to make your daily bread at a feed store, from accounts it is prone to be less clean than grain intended for human consumption and often has small stones in it which can damage many mills.

The markedly different levels of consumption of sugar sweetened drinks in the United States and the UK (735 kJ / person / day in the US compared with 209 kJ in the UK) suggest that a tax may have a lesser effect in the UK.12 19

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

«The heavier the dependence on plant or vegetable foods, the more pronounced the seasonings; the heavier the consumption of animal foods, the less pronounced the seasonings.

While tree nuts like pecans are high in fibre, the fibre intake of the trial diets was around 18g, which is less than the recommended amount of 25g - 30g but is representative of typical US consumption.

The World Health Organization states that this imbalance is due to an increased intake of energy - dense foods and a decrease in physical activity • Research from the American Beverages Association on the impact and consumption of sweeteners in drinks confirms that drinking diet beverages as part of a weight loss program can help people lose weight • The study also suggests that drinking diet beverages may help dieters feel less hungry and assist people to manage or lose weight