Sentences with phrase «on carbon footprints in»

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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.

Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

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.»

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.»

According to the company, 3L boxes result in a smaller carbon footprint than glass as it's 35 % lighter on average and 44 % smaller in size than the glass bottle equivalents.

«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.

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.

Buying organic gin botanicals and barley, grown sustainably on a farm less than 20 miles away and sending it to be hand - malted at the oldest working floor maltings in the UK; Warminster Maltings, (both situated within the Cotswolds), Dan is keen to minimise the distillery's carbon footprint.

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.»

Also coming next month in central London will be the first two Otarian restaurants, Britain's first vegetarian chain, which will also calculate its ingredients» carbon footprint and food miles on the menu.

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

This will also be mirrored on products bought in supermarkets with traceability, ecological impact and info on carbon footprint all appearing on packaging.

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.

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.»

He was recently re-elected to the Town Board in Livingston, and worked to pass progressive policies including a ban on hydrofracking, a reduction in the town's carbon footprint and additional investments in green space.

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].

But two things that should not get lost in the hurrahs, here, is that 1) even digital texts have a carbon footprint, based on the energy needed to find, download and read them, and 2) not everyone yet has ready access to or comfort manipulating the electronic hardware needed to digest digital docs.

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 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.

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.»

«This would be based on the carbon footprint and energy efficiency difference between manufacturing regions, and would be a better market - and science - based solution than a solar panel tariff,» said Dajun Yue, a Northwestern graduate student in You's research group and lead author on the paper.

«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.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

So Peter Scarborough and his colleagues at the University of Oxford took data on the real diets of more than 50,000 people in the UK, and calculated their diet - related carbon footprints.

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.

In the last week we've seen new peer - reviewed science published, linking at least half of 2012's extreme weather events to a human carbon footprint in the atmosphere and on the weather and climatIn the last week we've seen new peer - reviewed science published, linking at least half of 2012's extreme weather events to a human carbon footprint in the atmosphere and on the weather and climatin the atmosphere and on the weather and climate.

For instance, it is not clear if an import tax could vary based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during a good's production — WTO rules would have to be interpreted in a way that considers products not to be «like» each other based on their carbon footprints.

The standard would require reductions in the carbon footprint of the fuels supplied in Canada, based on lifecycle analysis.

Faster 5G networks will assist his projects in many ways, by giving planners more, instant data on things like traffic patterns, energy consumption, variou carbon footprints and much more.

As firm believers in treating our earth like our home, the Dr. Bronner's team works on everything from animal welfare, to regenerative organic farming projects, and even 100 % post-consumer recycled packaging as we reduce our carbon footprint, one bottle at a time.

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.

In addition, many of the brands we carry also try to limit their carbon footprint on the planet, respect sources where derived and use sustainable methods to produce their supplements.

Just be mindful of your carbon footprint: you can donate old cell phones in drop - off bins and take outworn computers, printers and appliances to special recycling areas that will dispose of them without wreaking further havoc on the planet.

If you're an environmentally - friendly single, whether you drive a Prius, recycle on a regular basis, or are a vegetarian, one of the most important qualities you look for in a date or partner is a similar passion for reducing the carbon footprints we leave.

I march to a different drum in the fact, that I don't own a car, make do without leaving a carbon footprint on the planet when possible, have fun just being outside...

Reducing the Academy's carbon footprint will show that we are doing our part in reducing our impact on the environment for today and for years to come.

PKL has taken on distribution of the Garbage Guzzler as a logical next step in the company's catering equipment portfolio, and in response to the demands of many of its current school customers, who have an increasing focus on waste disposal, cost savings and a greater desire to reduce their carbon footprint.

One vehicle that could also benefit from a new architecture based on MQB is Skoda's projected City Streak EV, which in turn could yield an all - electric version of Audi's city car and help offset the premium automaker's carbon footprint.

«We're very proud that since Nissan LEAF launched in 2010, we've been able to put more than 300,000 zero - emission electric vehicles on the road worldwide, helping to reduce carbon footprints around the globe,» said Daniele Schillaci, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Sales, Zero Emission Vehicle and Battery Business; Chairman of Management Committee for Japan / A & O (Japan, Asia, Oceania Business); Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.,.

If you are interested in reducing your carbon footprint on the Earth, this just may be the eco-friendly vehicle for you.

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?

The report takes a look at the effect of the book and magazine publishing industries on both trees and carbon emissions: the U.S. book and magazine sectors accounted for the harvesting of 125 million trees in 2008, and an average book has a carbon footprint of 7.46 kilograms of CO2 over its lifetime.

For a honest consideration of what their carbon footprint is one has to consider the full cycle: not just the materials (and what's required to obtain them), the generated byproducts and required energy that goes into manufacturing them, but also in using those devices (they don't run on air) and ultimately disposing them in a world where the usage lifespan we give to gadgets is progressively shorter, as we substitute them earlier for their fancier newer generations.