Reduce the company's environmental impact
by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.
In Ontario, Canada, the government - owned Liquor stores have been pushing Tetra Paks as eco-packaging, claiming a much
lower carbon footprint in manufacture and transport than the traditional glass bottle.
We need to consider its current economic climate, its historically
low carbon footprint compared to the US, and the millions of its people still hoping to escape poverty.
IBA Regional Award (
low carbon footprint award) IBA Team with a total of 169 species counted only in IBAs located in Plymouth and Bristol County
Talk
about lowering you carbon footprint: New Yorkers have the smallest carbon footprint in the nation — 7.1 metric tons versus about 20 metric tons average for the nation, with manhattanites have even lower than the city as a whole.
Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your meat consumption, you may be most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness:
lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating meat supports the intense abuses against animals raised in factory farms.
A key element of the sustainability pillar of this strategy is Origin Green, which aims to have every farm and food manufacturing business in Ireland working to
lower their carbon footprint annually, while playing a proactive role in the wellbeing of their local environment.
With fossil fuels likely to remain a key contributor to the world's electricity needs, I.F.C. intends to support only highly efficient coal - fired projects, such as Tata Mundra, that have a
relatively lower carbon footprint than existing coal plants.
This might be a little to the right of geeky, on par with pocket protectors, but if you're wanting to have an iPhone case with a
really low carbon footprint, try upcycling a milk jug!
Local materials, such as glass and wood, were used to
further lower the carbon footprint of the building and on - site photovoltaics and a large - scale biodiesel generator produce more energy than the building consumes.
@greenforyou Twittered about it, and that got me thinking... At face value, it would seem that WalMart's newfound insistence that its
suppliers lower their carbon footprint and «ensure ethical production» would be a good thing, right?
Reuters reports that Locke has since clarified his position: A spokesperson for Locke said that the Secretary was not supporting any specific carbon tariff on goods imported to the US (which would put him at odds with President Obama) or any other policy option
regarding lowering the carbon footprint of imported products — the main thing is that US companies not get penalized by domestic action to reign in carbon emissions.
He uses only found corrugated boxes, non-toxic glue, a razor knife, a cutting edge and mat to create his pieces, making him an artist with an
incredibly low carbon footprint.
The task before us is to convince the former to surrender their fossil energy profligate lifestyle and adopt an
extremely low carbon footprint lifestyle, and to convince the latter to reduce their aspirations to live like the former.
«Combining GPUs and CPUs is a responsible move
toward lowering our carbon footprint, and Titan will enable scientific leadership by providing unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, materials, and other disciplines.»
When you consider bamboo's
low carbon footprint along with its durability and lasting appeal, it's no wonder that it's made its way to homes in the form of furniture, window treatments, flooring and more.
«New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to take immediate action to create green jobs and incentivize environmental excellence by reinvesting in projects which
actually lower the carbon footprint of our public sector.»
«It also has a very
low carbon footprint in transport as one truckload of flattened, empty pouches is equivalent to shipping up to 25 truckloads of rigid, air - filled bottles or jars,» Powell concludes.