Sentences with phrase «off of fossil fuels»

Getting off of fossil fuels is important for international security, climate change, and long - term sustainability of the planet.

Getting off of fossil fuels will require that we shift to better energy technologies, such as nuclear and solar energy which are clean, power - dense and abundant.

Rather than continuing to invest in fossil fuel infrastructure when their climate goals require them to wean off of fossil fuel reliance, the leaders say they will push toward strengthening a clean energy economy in their jurisdictions.

«The bottom line is, safety has been and will continue to be my administration's top priority when it comes to oil and gas exploration off America's precious coasts — even as we push our economy and the world to ultimately transition off of fossil fuels,» Obama said in his message on Saturday.

And so if we want to really get busy and move off of the fossil fuels of previous centuries and go to something new and sustainable and renewable, then we have to take on that responsibility and get busy.

Musk, on the other hand, is trying to make money from a future that is based on sustainable energy, and moving the world off of fossil fuels, as he explained in his Master Plan Part Deux.

We really do need to take on the demand side of it also by weaning people off of fossil fuels.

According to the company website, Albert Straus is actively working toward weaning the entire 500 - acre farm off of fossil fuels, and the timing is right to make some mooo - ves (sorry) to mitigate on - farm greenhouse gases, because of California's mandate of reducing methane emissions to «40 % below 2013 levels by 2030.»

And weâ $ ™ re not going to suddenly turn off a switch and suddenly weâ $ ™ re no longer using fossil fuels, but we have to use this time wisely, so that you have a tapering off of fossil fuels replaced by clean energy sources that are not releasing carbon.

The CEC recently launched a «Fossil Free by» 33» initiative to wean the Santa Barbara region off of fossil fuels.

He said that while climate change represents a «real but modest threat,» we don't have the technologies needed to make the shift off of fossil fuels, and should abandon mitigation in favor of building energy and climate resilience.

«If we don't rapidly transition off of fossil fuels, the resulting climate catastrophe means mass extinctions, the collapse of ocean and land ecosystems, and flooding of the world's cities and bread - basket deltas,» Hawkins said.

We're not going to be able to lead this economy in getting off of fossil fuels.»

«This is a completely crackpot and insane idea of how we should move off of fossil fuels to a non polluting resource,» Cromwell said.

Taking Moonshots at a Low Carbon Future There are a lot of proposals to wean the world off of fossil fuels and move towards 100 percent renewable energy.

Conversely, wealthy, developed fossil fuel producers that have benefitted from fossil fuel production for decades have an obligation to prove it is possible to transition an economy off of fossil fuels (see the

Helping to unite people, to get us off of fossil fuels, to better understand where we came from... To The Stars is a mechanism to do the science, engineering, and storytelling that is needed to push us over the hump.

Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.

New York utility regulators have approved the sale of an upstate nuclear power plant, part of the state's strategy of investing in nuclear energy while weaning itself off of fossil fuels.

«This is a completely crackpot and insane idea of how we should move off of fossil fuels to a non-polluting resource,» Cromwell said.

Bringing it up in the political sphere merely serves to distract the public away from other, more compelling arguments for getting us off of fossil fuels.

We can't get off of fossil fuels.

We must transition off of fossil fuels, starting now.»

The bottom line is, safety has been and will continue to be my administration's top priority when it comes to oil and gas exploration off America's precious coasts — even as we push our economy and the world to ultimately transition off of fossil fuels.

But two, from my experience working with AmeriCorps VISTA in Hazleton, PA where I served, I immediately saw the need to move off of fossil fuels, and coal specifically, as an energy source given its devastating effects on the health of the community and on wildlife.

Now, the University must continue an aggressive transition off of fossil fuels and onto 100 % clean energy.

Many homeowners choose solar because they want to do their part to help stop climate change or to wean themselves off of fossil fuels.

It's twofold: No. 1, solar and wind power can not meet the world's voracious demand for energy, especially given the projected needs of emerging economies like India and China, and No. 2, nuclear power is our best hope to get off of fossil fuels, which are primarily responsible for the heat - trapping gases cooking the planet.

Conversely, wealthy, developed fossil fuel producers that have benefitted from fossil fuel production for decades have an obligation to prove it is possible to transition an economy off of fossil fuels (see the Lofoten Declaration for more on this).

A newly found inter-connectedness may be one of the greatest benefits of going local and weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels.

The important part of his speech concerned how we would wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.

302, Patrick 027: We need to get off of fossil fuels, or at least reduce it to a trickle, but during the transition, [use] some of that energy to produce whatever other energy infrastructure we're going to use -LSB-.]

Every small positive action matters, and can take you a step further toward a more sustainable life, and while going «cold turkey» off of fossil fuels can be an effective approach, far more of us will see greater progress with incremental and additive changes in our lives.

A take over will signal that the United States is serious about transitioning off of fossil fuel.

At best it may be decades before we are able to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.