Sentences with phrase «on nonrenewable»

Federal, state, and local governments have taken notice of the cultural shift toward sustainability and have spread incentives to improve buildings» efficiency and diminish the country's dependence on nonrenewable energy sources.

Renewable, fast - growing hemp could allow major industries to reduce their dependence on nonrenewable, fast - disappearing resources and move toward sustainable production.

«We can no longer ignore the negative impact of pollutants or dependency on nonrenewable resources.

In the Classroom: In Allan Drummond's Energy Island, classmates brainstorm ways to make their island less dependent on nonrenewable energy sources and use less electricity.

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Severance taxes are imposed on wells that remove nonrenewable resources, such as crude oil.

This system, dependent on a small affluent minority using a disproportionate share of the World's natural resources, was fast depleting the base upon which it rested: nonrenewable resources.

Based on what scientists and experts are telling us, maybe every day should be Earth Day when it comes to the way we care for the planet and it's nonrenewable resources.

Murray Bowen has been examining the forces in contemporary society that increase stress on families and render them highly vulnerable to dysfunction — e.g., the frantic pace of life, the loss of supportive contact with the extended family, the pressures caused by the population explosion and the depletion of nonrenewable resources.

I refer to the large spectrum of challenges that we now associate with ecology — world population, food supply, pollution, dwindling supplies of nonrenewable natural resources, and so on.

The American economy as we know it was built on this newfound and disruptive mastery of nonrenewable energy.

The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) challenged the statute, contending that out - of - state, nonrenewable energy companies that sell on the Colorado power grid could lose business.

These alternatives include liquids from both renewable (plants) and nonrenewable (coal and natural gas) sources that are better than an oil refinery on a greenhouse gas (GHG) life - cycle basis.

Standard: (iii) Energy resources are available on a renewable, nonrenewable, or indefinite basis.

Some of the DPI's proposed changes include allowing educators 55 and older to apply for a five - year, nonrenewable license without having to meet professional development requirements, increasing the time a substitute can be in the same assignment, expanding renewal options for emergency licenses and expanding the pathway for teachers to add additional licenses based on content tests.

Long - term sustainability of humans on Earth requires a balance between global population and consumption of renewable resources — not consumption of nonrenewable resources as we are currently doing.

That while they don't have a 100 percent Ingeo structure today, which is fully compostable, their first step, launching now, replaces 1/3 of the nonrenewable materials in the bag, and they've firmly set their sites on, and are fully committed to having a 100 percent Ingeo structure by this time in 2010.

The difference between Non-renewable and renewable energy sources are distinct; nonrenewable energies take several years to form, and can not be regenerated in a short time period: While on the other hand; renewable energies can be regenerated or replenished at a comparable rate of consumption.

-- The term «green building standards» means standards to require use of sustainable design principles to reduce the use of nonrenewable resources, encourage energy - efficient construction and rehabilitation and the use of renewable energy resources, minimize the impact of development on the environment, and improve indoor air quality.

-- For purposes of this subsection, the term «green building» means, with respect to standards for structures, standards to require use of sustainable design principles to reduce the use of nonrenewable resources, minimize the impact of development on the environment, and to improve indoor air quality.

This is based on the theory of nonrenewable resources.

Nonrenewable electricity sources may also impose costs on society from water use or pollution and may justify subsidies for some renewable alternatives.

On the surface, it's not difficult to imagine that we could create a satisfying, culturally rich lifestyle while consuming less fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources.

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

Gleick points out three areas where water hits peak limits — renewable water, nonrenewable water, and ecological water — and notes that we seem to have already passed a tipping point on all three.