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This will limit the growth of our carbon footprint from today's 2 % to 3 % in 2050.»

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Indeed, the company claims the carbon footprint of one of its suborbital flights will be less than that of a one - way flight from London to New York.

When someone moves from one of these countries to Canada, and adopts a Canadian lifestyle, their «carbon footprint» - the amount of carbon they use in their daily lives - would be expected to increase.

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

Reading breathless media reports about CO2 «pollution» and about minimizing our carbon footprints, one might think that the earth can not have too little CO2, as Simpson thought one couldn't be too thin — a view which was also overstated, as we have seen from the sad effects of anorexia in so many young women.

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

Long food supply chains are actually far from a simple matter because they tie into a number of social and environmental issues, including the global carbon footprint, product quality and sustainability, too.

By 2020, the region - and production - weighted national average carbon footprint of the U.S. swine herd will be reduced 5 percent from a 2014 baseline of 2.87 lb.

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

«People are moving away from glass and plastic and moving to products with less of a carbon footprint,» he says.

serving of Vertical Water has approximately 1/3 the calories, 1/3 the sugar and travels less than 1/3 the distance from forest to table (that means that Vertical Water has a smaller carbon footprint, it is exclusively sourced and bottled in the U.S.).

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.

UB already sources responsibly and was one of the first companies to switch to the sourcing of sustainable palm oil, but is mindful that more than half of the carbon footprint of its products comes from its supply chain.

One of the United State's newest dairy processing plants features advanced waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy from waste streams to drive production processes and reduce its carbon footprint.

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The Carbon Reduction Label originates from the UK - based Carbon Trust, and advises consumers of the total carbon footprint of a product: from raw materials and manufacturing right through to disposal or recycling of packaging.

The price of protein: review of land use and carbon footprints from life cycle assessments of animal food products and their substitutes.

«Enfield Council is delighted with this road trial and hope we can use more of the product across the borough to help divert plastics from landfill and reduce the carbon footprint for road construction.»

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.

If accused of being self - centred, he is not above gently poking fun at his parent friends about the giant carbon footprint left by their minivans equipped with car seats shipped from China.

In a break with all but two nations across the world, President Donald Trump announced today that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a historic agreement to lessen the country's carbon footprint in an attempt to fight the global effects of climate change.

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

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.»

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Co-author and supervisor Professor Bradley Eyre from Southern Cross University, who has been studying estuaries for more than 20 years, said the research should play an important role in quantifying the significant carbon footprint of estuaries in built - up areas worldwide.

Estimates of the carbon footprint vary wildly, but Christopher Goodall, a businessman turned climate crusader who calculated the impact of everything from miniature refrigerators to vacation travel for his book How to Live a Low - Carbon Life (Earthscan, 2007), puts it at three pounds of CO2 per pound of cotton.

A more exact measure of carbon footprint wanted While Krupp is a presence for environmental groups, the panel has come under fire from some for being too heavily weighted toward gas industry interests.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

A report from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, estimated that throughout its entire life, a large building made mostly from wood would have a carbon footprint a third smaller than a comparable one made from steel or concrete.

Most hydrogen fuel is derived from natural gas in a process that releases plenty of carbon dioxide, so the car and its 134 - horsepower electric motor fall short of being footprint - free.

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.

In a major decision that the ethanol industry called «workable,» the Obama Administration ruled that carbon emissions from deforestation abroad should count in determining the carbon footprint of biofuels.

Scientists used modeling to simulate various growing scenarios, and found a climate footprint ranging from -11 to 10 grams of carbon dioxide per mega-joule — the standard way of measuring greenhouse gas emissions.

Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

The carbon footprint estimates of these products were then combined with a measure of their effectiveness in preventing burglary with entry available from previous studies, known as the security protection factor (SPF).

A new study, which estimates the carbon footprint of burglary prevention measures, has found that the best options from both an environmental and security point of view are door and window locks.

«We are making PET from a renewable resource so there's a lower carbon footprint, and we can take advantage of existing infrastructure to recycle it,» Huang explains.

Taken together, he explained, emissions from the aviation and shipping industries represent about 5 percent of humanity's total emissions — the approximate equivalent of the collective carbon footprint from the planet's least - polluting 164 nations, he explained.

«We're going to learn from those biological processes to improve the methods and find solutions for infrastructure - related construction, maintenance and operations; to reduce the carbon footprint of our construction methods; to reduce the ecological and environmental impact of industries like mining and construction; and to make better and more sustainable use of the non-renewable resources we have,» she said.

With the help of microbes, we could decrease our carbon footprint on the planet, by using renewable resources to make a lot of the fuels and chemicals we currently get from petroleum.

For each carbon footprint, researchers considered both direct carbon emissions — from the consumption of food, heating and cooling of homes and the use of transport — and indirect carbon emissions — from the production of household goods and services.

The program will allow the institute to cut $ 436,000 per year from its energy bills, will save more than 18,000 gallons of water a day and reduce the institute's annual carbon footprint by 53 percent.

Graphic from a UC Climate Lab video comparing the carbon footprint of online shopping vs. shopping at a store vs....

Upwards of 85 % and as high as 98 % of the most common fresh cut flowers are imported mostly from South America (translation: huge carbon footprint).

You'll help the local economy, support farmers, and reduce your carbon footprint because your food will come from the next town over instead of halfway around the world.

«Brands are focusing on a holistic approach that takes into account the entire life cycle of an ingredient, from its carbon footprint to the livelihood of the workers who made it.»

Many of the latest wave of sustainably minded designers have shifted their focus away from strictly organic materials (which tend to be basic) in favor of a more holistic approach that takes into account the entire life cycle of a piece of clothing, from its carbon footprint to the livelihood of who made it.

All of our ingredients are sustainably grown and Non-GMO Project Verified, and because we source many of them from local farms within California, we're helping reduce our carbon footprint.

From water and energy efficiency (our Amish farmers are super low energy users), to reduced waste production and recycling (they also don't believe in excess consumption of ANY kind), all of which translate directly to our carbon footprint.

With sales of cow's milk on a consistent decline as consumers opt out of dairy products for a variety of reasons, such as lactose intolerance, veganism and eco-mindfulness (milk does come from carbon footprint — heavy cows, after all), the market for alternatives is fertile ground for food tech innovators like Ripple.