Sentences with phrase «other nonrenewable»

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.

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Put most succinctly, can we produce enough food and other material necessities for an expanding world population without polluting ourselves to death and without using up essential nonrenewable resources before we find substitutes or learn to recycle what we have?
We have limited our calculations to this, and we have used oil as the most important form of nonrenewable energy, treating other forms in terms of their equivalence in oil.
But 20 will be promising young scientists not far from beyond their Ph.D. s who supervise as many as two other people — also postdocs, grad students or staff scientists — and hold one - time - only, nonrenewable, 5 - year appointments.
In other words, it is the use of natural resources in order to allow the replenishment of renewable resources and the sparingly and efficient use of the nonrenewable.
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.
Others, such as petroleum and natural gas, are available in limited quantities and are considered nonrenewable.
And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.
They also compare Mirel to other olefins such as polypropylene and polyethylene, saying that the biobased plastic requires only 2.5 MJ / kg of nonrenewable energy per kilogram verses 70 MJ / kg.
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