Sentences with phrase «on firewood»

For example, it seemed odd that barbecues were selling so well in the winter, when most Americans are splurging on firewood, not charcoal.

It is even possible to run a car on firewood.

Total benefits worth $ 8.6 million USD Monetary value is also generated by cost savings on firewood.

Spend a buck on firewood and you feed a neighbor.

More than 2 billion people rely on firewood or dried dung for cooking and often burn these fuels in unvented stoves or fireplaces.

And we know the world — which today still has 2 billion people cooking on firewood or dung — will almost surely need more than twice today's energy menu by mid-century to have a chance of a smooth ride toward broader well - being.

But that is only the first baby step given the need for far more energy to supply human needs, even with spreading efficiency (recall that 2 billion people are cooking on firewood or dried dung at the moment).

[ANDY REVKIN asks: On the poison front, have you ever been in the home of someone cooking on firewood or dried dung without ventilation?

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

You've likely turned up the heat, stocked up on firewood and pulled out the boots and sweaters from storage.

Since we are all stocked up on firewood, and have the pup to sit with us in front of the roaring fire, the cold weather is welcome anytime!

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

On the continent as a whole, more than 90 percent of the population relies on firewood or charcoal.

INDIAN LAKE The recent cold snap might be a problem for some, what with stocking up on firewood, cold - starting cars, and the necessity of salt - covered roads.

Not exact matches

If you condemn entirely and utterly without ensuring recognition ise given for praise worthy material then you are as bad as their mythical sky - daddy which has a very warped sense of «justice» in condemning to death otherwise good people for gathering firewood on the wrong day of the week.

Unlike some competitors, its locations feature a firewood - burning pit that they cook pork, chicken and ribs on.

Now living on the other side of the world in New Zealand, this bread brings me back to crisp, sunny, winter Sundays when lunch was a feast and dessert a well - deserved pick - me - up after a morning filled with winter chores; stacking firewood and clearing the paths of snow.

In 1994 land use and income derivation was primarily focused on animal production and collecting activities (e.g. firewood and fruits).

The alternative is a bivouac in the open on astorm - blasted mountaintop without the benefit of firewood.

Wilson, who is both editor and publisher, stirs in fiction, book reviews and classified ads with articles on all aspects of boatbuilding, including such spellbinders as «When the Keel Drops Off» and «How I Almost Used My Kayak As Firewood.»

But then, the next day rolls around and the kids are more than happy to ride into the woods on the trailer of the tractor while we haul more firewood up to be cut and stacked, and before we know it, a whole morning has gone by and so much has been done.

«She told us stories of selling pencils on the street and how her family had to chop up their piano to sell as firewood,» her daughter said.

Firewood we are ridiculously behind on, but that's not really my thing until we get to the splitting and stacking stage, which we're not at yet.

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

He said the deceased drowned in the pond after they tried to swim on their way to fetch firewood in nearby Farantawa village of Albasu local government area of Kano state.

According to a resident, Akoko J. Smith, the victim was said to have encountered the misfortune which later led to her demise while passing through the lonely Adiko — Adum road on her way back from Adum East, where she went to sell some logs of firewood.

One Sale Mamman, 40, was electrocuted on Friday, while cutting firewood from a fallen tree branch on an electric high - tension wire in Jigawa State.

To survive, they trek long distances in the search of firewood to sell — seeking to help their parents put food on the table.

The 18» bar is great for taking on larger projects around your house or backyard, as well as taking down firewood or other larger tasks.

Men walk with firewood on their heads, and women carry bundles and sometimes babies on their backs.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

Communities in these areas rely heavily on forest resources, such as firewood, thatch for roofs, and plants for food and medicine.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

Portela, Juhn and their team examined timber, firewood, water and game hunted in tropical forests, known as bushmeat and set the monetary value of the natural resources based on the asset.

One chilly fall day in 2001 my brother and I were chain - sawing fallen trees for firewood when the saw kicked on a knot and shot out of my brother's hands and into his groin.

Just like the rest of Africa, Zimbabwe, a country where 80 per cent of the 10 million population rely on wood to cook their meals, is running out of firewood.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Think of body fat on the same basis as you would think of storing firewood during the summer, ready to be burned during the winter to keep you warm.

This mushroom was actually found just outside of the greenhouse, on a nearby decaying firewood log, but we had to include it here because it's easy to grow and a winner in both Eastern and Western literature.

The church leadership voted to urge parishioners not to spend more than $ 100 per family on presents, to rely instead on simple homemade gifts and on presents of services — a back rub, stacking a cord of firewood.

On the side of the road, their was a local man selling firewood.

I'd say if you're planning on getting a cabin, definitely come prepared with charcoal for the grill, firewood, and of course, smores essentials.

Capturing a day in the life of Camp Firewood (or a camp of your own creation), the book features a foreword from writer and director David Wain, plus interviews with Michael Ian Black, Joe Lo Truglio, and Marguerite Moreau, offering tips on how best to portray their WHAS characters.

Set in 1981 at Camp Firewood, the film takes place on the last day before the various campers are due to head back to their parents.

Enough power for transporting some four cubic metres of firewood on the pickup bed and a sail boat hooked up to the trailer coupling, for example.

We'll report back on how that progresses as our 3000km - old Trafic runs in, and we'll also put the Trafic to every use we can think of, including the obligatory moving house for a mate, tip runs, Ikea missions and pushbike transport, plus rural chores like carting firewood, gravel and green waste.

The sound that he'd made, chopping firewood in his driveway, it had grated on Michael.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

If someone told me a year ago I'd fall head over paws in love with a dog that would literally devour the trim on my car, my aging fence, puppy chew toys ad naseum, our socks and shoes, buried coaxial TV cable, my remote control, every bed we bought for him, half a dozen pillows, Grannie's quilt, stuffed animals, a big orange Home Depot bucket, a BBQ grill cover, patio furniture, saplings, two big flower beds, scores of recyclables, garage stuff galore, plus half a cord of firewood, I would have raised one eyebrow and said, «Yeah sure, what have you been smoking?»

«Ceramic - type of crowns can be used in dogs, but remember we are dealing with a patient that does not have the «power to reason,» and you can tell a human not to chew on a hard piece of candy or «do not bite down on a steak bone» (as in human dentistry), but the pet goes outside and chews on the fence instead or picks up a piece of firewood and carries it across the back yard — and shatters the ceramic crown — kind of like dropping a heavy metal soup spoon into a porcelain sink in the kitchen.