Sentences with phrase «less material goods»

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«When it comes to things like employee incentives, we're definitely part of this larger macroeconomic shift that's taking place — where there's less money being spent on material goods, and more money being spent on experiences.

The packaging of consumer goods impacts the environment, so we employ efforts to use the minimal amount of packaging necessary while maintaining food safety and quality, and work with suppliers to find new solutions to use less packaging or materials that are recycled or recyclable.

If the prices of my materials goes up and the new price means the goods won't sell for that much then it's me who has to come up with a lower price not the shops they won't take any less markup not matter what.

And now Suh has turned his attention to the question of efficiency — producing more goods with less materials and waste — to examine whether it might provide a natural way out of such pollution.

Material goods costing money also tend to bring less happiness than experiences, which tend to take more time than money.

We have and consume twice as many material goods than we collectively did 50 years ago, but statistically we are much less happy.

After all, studies do show that experiences (and less debt) make people happier than material goods.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

Part of this shift has meant that high - emissions activities, such as the production of raw materials and intermediate goods, are moving from rapidly developing countries like China and India to lesser developed countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam, a move that could have serious consequences for the success of the Paris agreement.

A global shift away from a Linear Economy (take, make, dispose) toward the Circular Economy (make, use, return) will ensure that manufacturers and designers create goods, clothes, packaging, and materials that do less damage to the earth.

With the repair and resale of old goods, everyone wins: Jobs are offered to those with low social - economic status; goods are sold at reasonable prices; raw materials are saved; the City spends less money collecting and sorting trash.