Sentences with phrase «of my carbon footprint on»

This suits me just fine since I train in small sessions throughout the day and I can't be bothered with using the car to get to the gym all the time (As an added advantage I consume less fossil fuel these days thus reducing the size of my carbon footprint on the planet.

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Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

The carbon footprint of a given barrel of oil over any other was not really on the political map when Chrétien was changing the tax code to finance a mine and Klein was rewriting the royalty regime to make it easier to expand the industry.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to take immediate action to create green jobs and incentivize environmental excellence by reinvesting in projects which actually lower the carbon footprint of our public sector.»

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to use the Pacific Carbon Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of our schools and hospitals instead of giving handouts to big polluters like Encana.»

Adopting the UniVoIP portfolio of cloud - based multimedia contact center tools not only benefits workplace productivity but can save your organization 62 % on power consumption while reducing your carbon footprint.

It has been the boast of environmental orthodoxy that «science» is a monolith «settled» on the coming crisis if humanity does not change its ways, or in the jargon, «reduce its carbon footprint.»

On the contrary, it made him seem a «man of the people» who was concerned about «lowering his carbon footprint,» etc..

Our industry is committed to reducing our carbon footprint, yet by extending the length of the supply chain it puts pressure on that goal.

As one of the event sponsors, Rexam was able to highlight the significant impact that increased recycling rates can have on the carbon footprint of aluminium beverage cans.

«When I was growing up in New York, ecology wasn't really on the scale of values, and the term «carbon footprint» hadn't even been coined yet,»» he recalled in a statement.

«We've got three different locations we're evaluating at this point,» Duffy says, noting that this will allow its clients on the West Coast to reduce the size of their carbon footprint as Biodegradable Food Service decreases the amount of transportation needed to move the products.

«That will save a lot of trucks from being on the road reducing our carbon footprint,» Argyelan says.

On top of all that, pulse crops are sustainable, with low water and carbon footprints, and they act as natural fertilizers, enriching whatever soil they grow in.

Tesco has begun displaying carbon footprint labels on milk bottles as part of a series of measures designed to reduce the environmental impact of milk production.

Over the last three years we've invested over # 8million in renewable energy generation to minimise our impact on the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of our products, a quality we know is increasingly important to consumers.»

Commenting on the report, Professor Tim Benton of the University of Leeds said: «The biggest intervention people could make towards reducing their carbon footprints would not be to abandon cars, but to eat significantly less red meat.»

Our technologies are on the forefront of green energy innovations and we are constantly striving to meet strict environmental regulations and help our customers reduce their carbon footprint,» Mr Bambridge said.

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.

While Wada Farms is not a packaging company, our focus on finding sustainable solutions that reduce our carbon footprint has led us to the development and launch of a great new packaging alternative.

Balmenach, one of Speyside's oldest whisky distilleries and the home of Caorunn Scottish Gin, is set to become one of Scotland's greenest distilleries with the announcement that work has started on a # 3 million biogas project to significantly reduce the site's carbon footprint.

The city also has a lot of great revitalization and sustainability projects going on that made me rethink how I was going about reducing my own carbon footprint.

As a natural products manufacturer NOW is keenly aware of our potential impact on the environment, and we're committed to responsible stewardship of our planet through the reduction of our carbon footprint and other sustainability initiatives.

We really need to make more of an effort to learn what's going on in our environment and in our home and try to further our efforts to not only protect our kids from harmful chemicals, but to also lesson our family's carbon footprint.

It's also led to articles by those who want to remind us of the day's dark origins — as well as focus on the commercialized holiday's horrible carbon footprint — thus making Valentine's Day the Worst Day Ever.

As an organization that is dedicated to protecting the nature of Massachusetts, we believe it's critical that we do our best to encourage everyone, including our travelers, to leave a minimal carbon footprint on our precious planet.

You will ultimately leave less of a carbon footprint and save money on actual diapers.

A while back, I wrote a blog on a Mother Jones - compiled fact sheet on the carbon footprint of the «average» American baby.

The results on the comparative carbon footprint of our kids makes you rethink disposables.

He will also lead a discussion about these issues at an event for members of the public entitled «Everyday sustainability: Negotiating carbon footprints», on 5 November.

If the carbon footprint is on your conscience but the allure of luxury and hassle - free activities leads to a yearning for a higher standard of holiday living, then a luxury log cabin may be the order of the day.

Orange & Rockland and RCSWMA were recognized for their hands - on initiatives, working on site to help businesses save money and reduce their carbon footprint by installing energy - saving equipment and making the most proactive use of their recycling a priority.

Project Innovation Award A Highly Commended Award was presented to Construction Industry Council Hong Kong, S. Thomas Ng and James M.W. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) for their report on «A product - based carbon labeling scheme for construction materials» The judges commented «This report highlighted a project that not only clearly demonstrates a topic relevant to the present day, but also the work that the researchers have accomplished in order to progress the idea from the ground upwards, leading to the development of a carbon footprint assessment tool that could not only be used in Hong Kong, but also internationally.»

I would ask the professor to go a little bit further and assign a second class to follow - up on the findings of the first class and have this next class investigate the carbon footprint for ZEN if it had been located in an area that was easily accessible by walking, bicycling or public transportation.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

It sheds light on the need to consider the specific properties of wetlands in global carbon footprints.

In the future, if China's households save less, more of the country's money will be spent on services and everyday goods, which have a smaller aggregate carbon footprint.

That means, as the social networking company wrote in an August 1 Facebook post (naturally) releasing the data on energy use, that «one person's Facebook use for all of 2011 had roughly the same carbon footprint as one medium latte.

For example, the carbon footprint of an electric vehicle strongly depends on local electricity sources [see «The Dirty Truth about Plug - in Hybrids,» by Michael Moyer; Scientific American, July].

Joshua Gallaway, a chemical engineer of Columbia University who was not affiliated with the study, says this type of work is critical because of biofuel's potential to reduce America's carbon footprint and its dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

The banks made their pledges on renewable energy as part of a campaign called RE100, an effort organized by environmental advocacy groups to get leading companies to commit to shrinking their carbon footprints.

The industry will need to focus on the best technologies and enforce support of those with the highest reduction in carbon footprint while making investments to quickly scale the deployment of better fuels into the market.

Faith communities are taking action too: hosting community solar gardens on church roofs, helping individuals cut their carbon footprints, and raising their voices here in the U.S. and around the world in advance of COP21.

carbon dioxide emissions per passenger on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight would be about 60 percent of a passenger's carbon footprint on a round - trip flight between New York and London.

But bamboo now constitutes one leading edge of his portfolio, in part because the bikes, he notes, have «the lowest carbon footprint on the planet.»

«We estimated that a solar panel's carbon footprint is about twice as high when made in China and used in Europe, compared to those locally made and used in Europe,» said Fengqi You, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern and corresponding author on the paper.