Sentences with phrase «makes ecological footprint»

This makes the Ecological Footprint a highly unreliable, even misleading, indicator of ecological sustainability.

Not exact matches

According to Meg Hamill who writes for Planet Save, «Making backyard chickens legal is a good move for cities interested in reducing their ecological footprint.

Choosing cloth baby wipes and solutions like the all natural baby spray, bumGenius Bottom cleaner, reduces the load on landfills and makes a smaller ecological footprint for you, your family and your baby.

Such a system would reveal whether the local water table was falling or if grazing was too intensive on a given landscape — exactly the type of judgments that the global ecological footprint is ill - suited to make.

«And whole libraries may appear on our desktop screens apparently out of thin air, but unless some radical changes are made in the way we design and produce our information age gadgetry, its ecological footprint will never really be reduced.»

«We're going to learn from those biological processes to improve the methods and find solutions for infrastructure - related construction, maintenance and operations; to reduce the carbon footprint of our construction methods; to reduce the ecological and environmental impact of industries like mining and construction; and to make better and more sustainable use of the non-renewable resources we have,» she said.

Many dog - owning consumers are indeed looking to decrease their ecological footprint in various areas of their daily lives — often, by buying products that are made using sustainable ingredients and that do no harm to either the environment or their pets.

Costa Rica has made it to # 1 on the Happy Planet Index for two years in a row (2012 & 2011), based on its national conservation policies, small ecological footprint, high quality of life and life expectancy rate all being «exceedingly above par», states Forbes Magazine.

The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air?

Robust and accurate Ecological Footprint accounts can help us make decisions towards sustainability, and can quantitatively show the positive impacts of groups, businesses, and people making decisions that are helping to bring human demand within the means of the planet.

As the Ecological Footprint reflects the demand for productive area to make resources and absorb wastes, recycling can lower the Ecological Footprint by offsetting the extraction of virgin products, and reducing the area necessary for absorbing wastes.

Today, the carbon Footprint makes up 60 % of humanity's total Ecological Footprint.

«Environmental campaigners use the so - called ecological footprint — how much area each one of us requires from the planet — to make their point.

The carbon Footprint makes up 74 percent of the Swiss Ecological Footprint.

Food demand makes up 28 % of the global Ecological Footprint.

Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints,» authored by Linus Blomqvist (Breakthrough Institute), Barry Brook (University of Adelaide), Erle Ellis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Peter Kareiva (The Nature Conservancy), Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger (Breakthrough Institute), decomposes the six metrics that make up the Ecological Footprint and finds that five of the six — cropland, grazing land, built - up land, forests, and fishing grounds — are either in balance or surplus, suggesting that the Earth's renewable capacity in these categories meets or exceeds human demand for these resources.

The Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) has a fun Eco-Challenge in October in which people make up personal or group challenges to reduce their waste, energy use, vehicle miles and other ways of shrinking their ecological footprints.

If the thought of eating like a vegetarian to lower your ecological footprint makes your stomach churn, here is some good news.

Find out more about how much land area it takes to support your personal lifestyle with the GFN Footprint Calculator, and read about the causes and conditions that are behind our current ecological deficit at Earth Overshoot Day, as well as learn what you can do to make a difference, both locally and globally.

Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry — a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.

The aim of event is to get the citizens of Victoria to make moves to reduce their ecological footprint (hence the thong imagery - an Australian lifestyle icon.)

They will also have the opportunity to look at climate change and GHG from a unique angle: they will discover that carbon emissions make up the largest component of the Ecological Footprint (globally and in most countries), and will start thinking of carbon emissions in relation to the area of forestland required to absorb them.