Sentences with word «nonrenewable»

Long - term sustainability of humans on Earth requires a balance between global population and consumption of renewable resources — not consumption of nonrenewable resources as we are currently doing.

With the rising cost of nonrenewable energy sources and the declining costs of producing energy from renewable sources, demand for highly skilled professionals in the solar energy field is increasing both in the United States and in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

I refer to the large spectrum of challenges that we now associate with ecology — world population, food supply, pollution, dwindling supplies of nonrenewable natural resources, and so on.

«Put as little as 20 percent biofuel into nonrenewable fuels — coal - to - liquid and gas - to - liquid — you can be carbon neutral in a mix,» CAAFI's Altman says.

The 2 million tonnes of adipic acid needed by industry every year are at present made from benzene, a carcinogenic chemical that comes from nonrenewable fossil fuels.

Federal, state, and local governments have taken notice of the cultural shift toward sustainability and have spread incentives to improve buildings» efficiency and diminish the country's dependence on nonrenewable energy sources.

The family of John D. Rockefeller plans to rid the $ 860 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund of investments in companies trading in nonrenewable energy.

Her seemingly cute report about the advances of disposables, without even a nod about several new alternative products, including biodegradable diapers, only encourages the excessive use of nonrenewable materials.

For this type of need, a five - year nonrenewable term policy might offer the best cost / benefit relationship.

Running sidebars, aimed at an older audience, explain such terms as nonrenewable energy.

suggested a few ethical considerations: the obligation not to exhaust nonrenewable resources, the imperative to provide accessible replacements, the necessity to improve our heritage modestly and carefully, the greater responsibility of the advantaged to improve that which exists and to share, and the obligation to refrain from excessive consumption and waste.

On the surface, it's not difficult to imagine that we could create a satisfying, culturally rich lifestyle while consuming less fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources.

The deterioration of natural productive systems in the many ways so far discussed exemplifies the ecological principle that over-use converts renewable resources into nonrenewable ones.

Conventional carpet pads are made of foam and synthetic rubber made from nonrenewable petroleum sources.

Through the nonfiction title, «The Story of Fossil Fuels,» students will learn about petroleum, coal, and natrual gas nonrenewable resources; how fossil fuels are made and used; where we find fossil fuels today; extraction and refining; and more.

In order to develop them companies need to engage in the mining of nonrenewable minerals, like columbite - tantalite, which sometimes come from politically unstable regions such as the Congo.

And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.

Kansas allows new teachers who have not met all or part of their licensure testing requirements to apply for a one - year, nonrenewable teaching license.

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Today's children can't take for granted a future powered by nonrenewable resources such as oil and natural gas.

Severance taxes are imposed on wells that remove nonrenewable resources, such as crude oil.

«The widely recited rhetoric that Canada must continue its de facto energy strategy of liquidating its remaining nonrenewable resources as fast as possible to maintain the economy has no credibility,» concluded Hughes in his report.

Of course, transnational companies do not always only exploit nonrenewable resources.

The most important nonrenewable natural capital that is being used up is energy.

Put most succinctly, can we produce enough food and other material necessities for an expanding world population without polluting ourselves to death and without using up essential nonrenewable resources before we find substitutes or learn to recycle what we have?

It also runs the risk of using up certain nonrenewable natural resources.

Given the present ecological realities of rising consumption and dwindling natural resources, can we be content with a situation in which 1 / 16th of the world's people use up at least 1/3 of the world's nonrenewable raw materials?

Peat is «not exactly nonrenewable, but it accumulates so slowly,» Turetsky says.

If most of us expect to live possibly indefinitely in good health, there is a strong motivation to help protect humanity from long - term risks like extinction from a new pandemic, the exhaustion of key nonrenewable resources, global nuclear warfare — or a meteor strike.

This is an accounting trick of sorts so the island generates as much energy from renewables as it consumes in nonrenewable diesel and gasoline.

Researchers Grzegorz Milczarek from Poznan University of Technology in Poland and Olle Inganäs from Linköping University in Sweden, have combined a polymer with a waste material from the paper and pulp industry to create a new kind of battery cathode, which today are mostly made from nonrenewable metals such as lithium or cobalt.

Hicheur was on a 4 - year, nonrenewable contract that ended a few months after his arrest, and EPFL does not have permanent posts available, says Bay, who's a member of an international committee supporting Hicheur that also includes 1988 physics Nobelist Jack Steinberger.

It's a completely nonrenewable resource, and when used and planned correctly, it's our friend, not our enemy (how often do we hear people say.

Some synthetic fabrics like nylon, rayon, and polyester are petroleum - based, meaning they take a lot of energy to produce and suck up precious nonrenewable resources.

State maintains nonrenewable emergency or provisional licenses.: AK, AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, KS, KY, MA, MD, NC, ND, NH, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, VT, WA, WV, WY

It's clear that oil is becoming increasingly expensive and that carbon based nonrenewable fuels are contributing to climate destabilization.

I also collected the numbers on the different renewable and nonrenewable options here:

However, we can not neglect the big role nonrenewables are playing today despite the harms they are costing our economy.

Others, such as petroleum and natural gas, are available in limited quantities and are considered nonrenewable.

Evan Halper's December 2 article in the Los Angeles Times, «Power Struggle: Green energy versus a grid that's not ready» perpetuates the false narrative that renewable energy increases the risk of blackouts, when in fact the problem is centralized fossil fuel nonrenewable generation.

Nonrenewable electricity sources may also impose costs on society from water use or pollution and may justify subsidies for some renewable alternatives.

Carbon black is made of nonrenewable oil.