Sentences with phrase «more organic materials»

However, rather turning to acrylics or oils, she opted for more organic materials.

You know some of the services that are going to be focusing on, you know, using more organic materials and really green, clean, cleaning systems.

The researchers also linked the rates of nitrogen loss with the supply of organic material that drives the rates: more organic material equates to more nitrogen loss, so the quantity of the material matters too, Babbin said.

«Urban organics» thus remain at higher levels longer, says Canuel, «delivering more organic material to the river mouth and increasing the likelihood that low - oxygen conditions will develop in downstream locations such as estuaries and the coastal ocean.»

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Scientists are also taking on board the need for a more organic and holistic approach to the material world.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Unlike chemical fertilizers, organic material does more than provide organic nutrients.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

What will be the cost of producing energy from organic materials as the demand for such energy escalates and requires more and more agricultural land?

I recommend aged and sterilized steer manure combined with organic material from your compost pile before you add more non-composted material to it.

The addition of compost, or other organic material such as aged manure, clusters the small clay particles into lumps that will improve drainage and aeration and will make the soil easier to work and more friable (easily crumbled).

No - tilled fields often have more beneficial insects and annelids, [29] a higher microbial content, and a greater amount of soil organic material.

By using renewable materials as well as plant based fillers, organic mattresses are helping you and your family to live a more natural life.

If you want, you can choose to dress your baby only in organic materials, but you have some more affordable options when you're looking to avoid animal products in your baby clothing, too.

These are priced just a bit more but are perfect for parents who prefer organic materials for their baby.

With no chemicals weakening the integrity of the fabric, the material will also last much longer, meaning you'll get many more washes out of your organic cotton baby clothing before it wears thin.

However, some eco-friendly materials, such as wool, are more water resistant than others, and organic covers are available.

Cloth diapers are a great way to help the environment but if you purchase organic and degradable materials, you help even more.

More new parents are considering carefully the options available in the crib mattress industry, which now includes organic baby mattresses instead of the mattresses produced from synthetic materials.

Not all modern cloth nappies use organic material, however they usually use bamboo and hemp fabric as these materials hold more fluid and also have antibacterial properties.

Packaged in eco-friendly materials, it includes organic stretch mark oil, organic stretch mark cream and organic back rub oil, which is everything a pregnant woman could want and more.

We have a lot of plastic toys around the house, but I like that her room is more organic and natural - «materialed».

Lots of colors are also available, and you can choose from lighter... MORE weight summer materials, thicker winter swaddles, or organic cotton.

When you're thriving for the best quality material and willing to pay more, then think about this knit nursing tunic made from pure organic cotton.

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In the second - stage reactor, the remaining organic material is subjected to more intense heat, continuing the breakup of molecular chains.

The more oxygen in the atmosphere, the faster it reacted with this organic material, creating a regulatory mechanism whereby the oxygen was consumed by the sediments at the same rate at which it was produced.

Next generation plants will not only be more efficient but also will extract energy from the organic material and nitrogen in sewage.

And as a basis for gas sensors in particular, carbon nanotubes combine advantages (and avoid shortcomings) of more established materials, such as polymer - based organic electronics and solid - state metal - oxide semiconductors.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

The results revealed that rocks in the area where the ankylosaurs congregated were more fine grained in texture and contained a higher degree of coal than those found elsewhere, suggesting the area was once a stagnant locale containing lots of organic material.

Conventional inorganic batteries still are capable of holding more energy than the organic battery, and Yao said work will continue to improve the storage capacity of the material.

Such OLEDs — diodes made from organic material such as polyacetylene rather than semiconducting metals — may prove an even more intriguing future solution, because they can be crafted into ceiling panels or even windows (they are often translucent) and are potentially even more efficient at producing light (though not yet).

Light - emitting organic materials offer brighter and more efficient displays than LEDs.

The goal is to provide the materials that will allow organic photovoltaic cells to turn more than 10 % of the solar energy that hits them into electricity, compared with about 9 % for the best materials today.

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

«It is important to understand the fundamental processes involved in the molecular electrical doping of organic semiconductors more precisely,» explains Salzmann, continuing: «If we want to successfully employ these kinds of materials in applications, we need to be able to control their electronic properties just as precisely as we customarily do today with inorganic semiconductors.»

The material, a zirconium - based metal - organic framework (MOF), degrades in minutes one of the most toxic chemical agents known to humankind: Soman (GD), a more toxic relative of sarin.

The «ugly - looking gruel» that results, Warner says, separates into more liquid organic materials that funnel into a biocatalytic vat, and more solid materials — plastics — that find their way to a gasifying chamber.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

«Diphenylalanine is one of the first self - assembling organic materials that can be used to make microscopic tubes, rods, ribbons, spheres and more,» said Andrei Kholkin, corresponding author on the study.

Presently, chemists working to design more efficient organic solar cells rely heavily on «post-mortem» or post-manufacture analysis of the distribution of the constituent materials of the cells they produce.

But in recent years, extensive studies have been conducted to produce porous materials from more durable organic materials.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells --- they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

NASA Astrobiology Institute — larger and detailed images Ionizing radiation such as ultraviolet light «processes» substances found in the cold molecular clouds of interstellar space such as ices rich in organic compounds into even more complex organic materials.

Because tropical forests like those in the Sabah have converted large quantities atmospheric carbon into organic material — and they accomplish more of this than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

«The promise of NiDOBDC and similar metal - organic frameworks is that we will be able to make faster and more sensitive separation and monitoring equipment,» said Grate, who has been working in materials and systems for sensing and nonproliferation applications for his entire career at PNNL.

This process holds promise for destroying organic waste, but that promise can not be realized without a more complete understanding of the materials» properties.