Sentences with phrase «much of a carbon footprint»

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hi fred... we live in a world with far too much packaging... i say, no packaging... get the carbon footprint down and oggle the beauty of the kingdom with no wrapper... wouldn't that be tasty!?

The combination of sustainability, ease of non-GMO certification, and low carbon footprint these healthful ingredients carry is taking them from the fringe to the mainstream much more quickly than traditionally occurred when a new ingredient came on the scene.

A combination of explosive popularity of plant proteins and rapidly growing demand for foods manufactured with a much smaller carbon footprint is giving alternative proteins a big push.

Cloth diapering really is not that hard (and it is way cheaper than disposables), carpooling to work or taking public transportation is a viable option for thousands of parents who work in cities, and doing other simple things like recycling as much as possible, using washable napkins instead of paper - towels, using 100 % post-consumer recycled toilet paper (even just once in a while), and using a handkerchief instead of kleenex are all simple life - changes that can add up to seriously changing your carbon footprint.

Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat

Washington already has a much smaller carbon footprint than other states that use a lot of coal.

Millions of future commuters could have a much smaller carbon footprint, without even knowing it.

Solely in terms of how much grain livestock consume, producing a pound (0.45 kilogram) of beef releases 13.67 pounds (6.2 kilograms) of greenhouse gases, compared with around 6.75 pounds (3.1 kilograms) to produce a pound of pork, and 3.37 pounds (1.5 kilograms) for every pound of chicken — and this does not even take into account the other factors in meat's carbon footprint, from deforestation for pasturage to shipping it to market.

Combinations with five or six different devices notably resulted in a much higher carbon footprint, and are seen as unnecessarily carbon intensive and undesirable as they offered little more in terms of security than the WIDE combination.

Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere.

People argue against it by saying, «Hey, you know the carbon footprint of flying food thousands of miles is ridiculous so we should grow [things] locally» but the counter argument is, but if you can grow so much wheat sufficiently in Kansas even including the transportation for thousands of miles it's still more efficient in terms of resources.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

Analyses revealed that, compared with activated carbon, production of the hybrid material consumed less energy («embodied energy») while leaving a much lower carbon footprint.

While there is only so much these companies can do to reduce their huge carbon footprints — given their reliance on emissions - heavy air transport — they've made great strides in greening their ground fleets, optimizing their choices of modes and otherwise streamlining energy use.

It's now commonplace to talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's climate.

Freshly launched, their alpaca sweaters collection will offer four styles made of natural fibres that are just as soft as cashmere, but have a much lower carbon footprint than traditional yarn sweaters.

There is an increasing number of commercial and nonprofit organizations, including NativeEnergy (a Native American owned energy company) and Carbonfund.org that allow you to calculate how much energy or fuel you use and donate money to offset your carbon footprint.

It takes so much energy to make them that the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

It takes so much energy to make batteries the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

Their carbon footprint will be only slightly reduced, yes, but more importantly they will be paying for the development of technologies that will invariably find their way into lower powered, much more efficient vehicles.

The carbon footprint of a vehicle provides the best estimate of how much greenhouse gas pollution a particular vehicle will produce.

But I'm curious if the report noted what the carbon footprint is based on the manufacturing of the Kindle — and how much power is consumed in actually powering the Kindle?

Digiconomist says that with much of the network powered by cheap coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.

They're actually playing out the tradition that was started by the 19th - century landscape painters, [placing] the observer in a position of domination and control of nature, without much thought to the carbon footprint or any of the consequences.»

Tell me, how much does a person reduce the carbon footprint of their lives simply by deciding not to reproduce?

So four years ago, after having saved some money and done much research, she decided to get a tiny home custom made by builder and trapeze artist Abel «Zyl» Zimmerman of Zyl Vardos, since she wanted to «reduce [her] carbon footprint, lower [her] bills and have a portable home.»

Americans who want to play this game have a much better tool in Abogo, which uses more databases of information to really estimate the carbon footprint of where you live.

Taxation should be geared as much as possible to our personal carbon footprint, including the replacement of household equipment.

It is also debatable how much of our economic resources should be devoted to stabilizing or reversing mankind's growing carbon footprint.

Yesterday Lloyd started a survey around the notion: «We have never had much luck convincing people that they should change their travel habits because of their carbon footprint, but is the economy making a difference?»

Placing so much emphasis solely on carbon footprints gives traction to foolhardy ideas such as carbon capture, iron seeding of the ocean and the expansion of nuclear power, which have no precedent in geologic history and seek to reduce net carbon emissions at the cost of much greater environmental damage.

Covering your pot when cooking on an electric cooktop reduces your carbon footprint by as much as 85 lbs of carbon dioxide per year.

Why not have a play with the carbon calculator and see how much you'll need to offset your personal, or your company's annual carbon footprint — we're sure that helping replace kerosene lamps with safe, clean solar lights is one of the best, and easiest, ways to offset your carbon footprint!

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

As Dunedinites, we each have a significant carbon footprint simply because of the carbon footprint and low energy efficiency of much of the city's infrastructure.

Secondly, nuclear energy results in 9 — 25 times more carbon emissions than wind energy, due to the mining, refinement, and transportation of nuclear fuel; the much longer time involved in building a nuclear facility (approximately 4 times longer than WWS facilities); and larger building footprint.

(Inside Science)-- New research reveals that the carbon footprint of global tourism is much larger than previously thought, after accounting for all aspects of travel, including staying in hotels and shopping.

While glaciers and ice sheets may physically plug large stores of buried methane hydrates or pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through millions of small holes, their impacts reach much further than their physical footprint.

I live in a Panamanian rainforest and have a carbon footprint MUCH SMALLER than any of my warmista friends.

My historic and current carbon footprint is certainly much higher than most of humanity's.

But despite doing «pretty much [what] everyone's always told me to do,» when he plugged his lifestyle into a carbon footprint calculator, he found that his CO2 emissions were still double that of the average American.

With energy efficiency measures on the way — such as low - energy flood - lights — the solar panels will eventually produce as much as 25 % of the club's electricity and reduce its carbon footprint.

It means how much fossil fuels you use in your daily life.Each person has a carbon footprint of how much waste they produce..

A carbon footprint is not an object, it is a way of calculating how much your activities contribute to the burden of global warming.

If so, just how much smaller is the carbon footprint of a commuter train with 800 passengers versus that of 800 cars on the freeway, assuming a commute of about 30 miles?

I like to think that demand for squash will continue to grow as people move toward seasonal eating, realizing that eating locally - farmed squash in November has a much smaller carbon footprint than importing refrigerated heads of Romaine from California greenhouses.

With studies claiming as much as 90 % lower carbon footprint per journey than an equivalent flight, efforts to cut that footprint even further and offset the rest, and now Eurostar's positive and accomodating response to bicycle protests, the company seems to be well aware of the green market for their service.

Not to mention that once personal wealth hits the astronomical levels of those 400 Americans owning as much as some 150 million of their fellow citizens, by virtue of your spending and lifestyle habits your carbon and ecological footprint tends to shoot through the roof.

Construction had a much lower carbon footprint because of the ease of transport.

A single bicycler riding 5 miles to and from work four days a week, can save on average 100 gallons of gasoline, 2,000 lbs of CO2 emissions, and reduce their carbon footprint on this earth by as much as 5 percent.