Sentences with phrase «much energy the businesses»

It would also give the city a good idea of how much energy the businesses are consuming.

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Instead of evaluating the decision based solely on the percentage of payroll costs it will save, consider how much of your time, energy and management efforts will be saved and what that would mean for your business.

Roughly 80 % of startup owners have voluntarily left the cubicle and are pouring their energies into their own businesses, a much higher figure than during the jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s, writes economist Benjamin Tal in a recent CIBC report.

Much like serving as a war correspondent, «starting a business requires every bit of imagination, and creativity, and energy, and gumption that you've got,» Hindy says.

Efforts to manage this can be accomplished in a much more effective fashion if the small business owner devotes energy to defining the job and actively taking part in the recruitment process.

Many businesses have no idea how much money they're flushing away on unnecessary document printing, old - fashioned light bulbs, energy - hungry office machinery, and pointless travel and shipment costs.

How you conduct yourself offstage carries just as much weight, according to Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founder of Evanston, Ill. - based NuMat Technologies, a clean - energy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan Competenergy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan CompetEnergy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan CompetEnergy Business Plan Competition.

Beyond consumer and business data — energy companies possess much proprietary information about their holdings, trading strategies and exploration and production technologies — the increasing dependence of pipeline infrastructure on digital systems makes them a particularly ripe target.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

While it is still uncertain just how much coal - energy prices are expected to rise, Rep. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has called Obama's initiative a «war on coal,» which he says will cost jobs and hurt businesses.

This makes sense when you consider that small businesses are powered by passionate owners who invest so much of their time and energy into pursuing their dreams.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

I liken this to a scuba diver who goes down and he has about an hour's worth of air, and then he's got ta come back up again and either get another tank or refill his tank, so you're limited on how much air you can have if you're scuba diving, but in business, unless you have a scuba diving type business, you don't wan na have to keep having to refill your tank, and so that's the issue that I see faces a lot of entrepreneurs and startups, is the amount of time and energy it takes to raise money for your business.

The energy sector has driven much of the recent capex weakness, and capex is a less important barometer of sentiment in service sectors and asset - lite businesses.

Much will depend on whether the long - awaited completion of the Fort Hills energy project turns out as well as hoped, because a favorable resolution there could have positive impacts across the business.

Kuwait Energy Plc is planning an initial public offering in London that could value the oil and gas exploration business at as much as $ 1 billion, according to people familiar Continue Reading

When you wake up every day and you're focused on the owner / operator and every ounce of thought and energy you have goes into helping that owner / operator become better at running their store and developing their business, it brings all your actions much more clarity.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

«Today the Public Service Commission approved the Cuomo energy plan, which raises two critical questions: First, how much will the plan actually cost families and business ratepayers?

«Too much time, energy and resources were spent in the past in my view, without a deliberate conscious assessment of the impact on jobs and whether or not we were spending wisely to improve the lives of the people, communities and businesses.

Mandelson fears his own carefully crafted legacy of «industrial activism» built up during his two years as business secretary is under threat, and that Miliband's party conference speech in which he made the energy price pledge was driven by politics as much as economics.

Tim Woodcock The co-founder of HomeEdison noted the Renewable Energy (RE) sector's ability to deliver alternative energy at substantially lower costs than standard utility rates; the importance of building a two - way energy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our rEnergy (RE) sector's ability to deliver alternative energy at substantially lower costs than standard utility rates; the importance of building a two - way energy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our renergy at substantially lower costs than standard utility rates; the importance of building a two - way energy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our renergy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our renergy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our region.

Salina, NY — Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's new jobs plan sounded familiar: cut taxes for new businesses, lower energy costs, reform workers» compensation and «get businesses much - needed capital.»

«But moving so quickly right now, especially when so many of my working - class families and my small businesses just came through a winter where they were paying so much for energy — I think they should take — they should take that into account and they should be much more methodical and look at this thing in greater detail,» Gibson said.

So we know that some long period of time from now, we'll be on a sustainable, low - embodied energy, crustally abundant advanced materials, advanced distributable, renewable energy; somewhere between here and there, a lot of capital equipment is going to become obsolete, because the marginal cost of production of it is so much more than the new way of doing it that the new way will put it out of business.

And with a barrel of oil costing more than $ 80 per barrel, making gasoline from the carbohydrates in plants rather than much - touted hydrogen is proving a better business opportunity for Cortright and Virent Energy Systems, the Madison, Wisc. - based company he founded to commercialize the technology.

Either way, the extremely violent event produced ten times as much energy as a business - as - usual space explosion.

Because so much energy is used through expensive capital stock, the price should rise in a predictable way to enable people and businesses to efficiently adjust lifestyles and investments to minimize costs.

Reshaping your body, business and life, transforming your old self - sabotaging mindset into owning your self - leadership, getting the energy to finally launch your bold dream, live your ideal lifestyle,... It's so much easier to get what you desire when someone guides you straight towards your success, quicker than when you would all alone.

I burned so much fat without even noticing it that I had to start wearing 1 size smaller pants and EAT A LOT MORE FOOD (those ketogenic problems, I know)... I was able to INCREASE MY COGNITIVE SHARPNESS AND FOCUS so I could concentrate on more things other than food... Get more energy to be more productive and creative... Write 4 books in 2 months... Overcome the excruciating feeling of hunger and sugar cravings... And helped me to build the business and body of my dreams.

As a result of the demand on women to perform well in business, to sometimes be the primary breadwinner of the family, and to compete with the go - go - go energy of much of the working world, there has been a tendency for many women to get locked into that kind of «masculine» energy, which can be counter-productive when it comes to getting intimate in the bedroom.

We learn via expository dialogue that Mike's old boss and mentor Dallas (Matthew McConaughey) left the group (which I guess is code for, «McConaughey wanted too much money»), and that Mike retired from stripping three years ago and poured his energy into his furniture business and proposed to what's - her - name in the first film and was rejected.

In what could be seen as a fitting business arrangement — given how much of the company's time and energy has been spent transporting the 50,000 tons or so of material the man produced — Amazon has picked up a TV series adaptation of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books.

Even before the money is paid back there is added security, protecting schools from rising energy bills, a concern that applies as much to businesses as the residential sector.

Hiring the ideal candidate for your eLearning company on the basis of a skills match may sound like the best way to go, but more often than not candidates with passion, energy, curiosity to learn, and core values that align with your business, may work out much better in the long run.

Daimler is planning to enter the energy storage business as well, and believes Smart battery packs could be reused in stationary energy storage systems after they've degraded too much for continued use in cars.

I can't help feeling that if the vanity presses were open about what they do, and put their energy into providing authors with honest advice about the realities of the business and supporting them as much as possible they would provide a great service and put an end to a lot of the criticism that they attract.

If I hadn't already invested so much time and energy in my Earnest account I would definitely be taking my business elsewhere, and am considering doing so regardless.

Our goals for SuperZoo are very much aligned in that we want to bring energy to the show floor that inspires our attendees to learn, innovate and take home the knowledge that will help them enhance their own businesses.

Even though building a business based on something Scott and I love has challenged us on many different levels and has caused us to work insane hours, it still feels easier than any of the other businesses where I didn't spend near as much time and energy building.

However, we spent a lot of time and energy on the whole process and I would much rather have a guaranteed business class seat for the trip to / from NZ.

It all seemed so logical: if I could simply liberate my energy away from the custom work and streamline my business as much as possible, the less time I'd have to spend in the business, and the more time I'd have for my creative things.

I got out of the business after doing a systems analysis of total net energy gain, that is how much more energy did the country (and the world) gain after taking into account the energy needed to extract and refine the raw materials, construct the equipment (panels, pipes, etc.), ship the components, and build on - site?

While there's not much of a prospect for an expanding global market in hard carbon credits like those created under the ailing Kyoto Protocol, this system provides a voluntary means for people or businesses concerned with both climate change and ending energy poverty to have their money do double duty.

Of course, too often, the problem is that all of this new energy technology never makes it out of the lab and onto the market because there's too much risk and too much cost involved in starting commercial - scale clean energy businesses.

Shackelford said business has been brisk, in large part because of federal programs that substantially cut homeowner's costs through tax credits and other initiatives, like the National Home Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American energy losses in American homes.

If we proceed with a «business as usual» approach to energy generation and use, we would have much less time to transform our energy system, and much steeper emission cuts would be needed.

In estimates provided to The Australian newspaper, the Energy Supply Association of Australia predicted businesses would pay more than $ 4 billion for the «carbon price» between 2013 and 2014, with much of the costs passed on to consumers.

Rupert Newland, chief executive at Arenko Group, said: «Arenko's new battery system will provide much needed flexibility to the UK grid, reducing waste and helping to make energy bills cheaper for households and businesses.

Being in the business of actually doing testing for Energy Star for equipment it is impressive how much the manufacturers have managed to drop consumption, in particular in idle mode.