Sentences with phrase «people fueling growth»

It's not just retired people fueling growth, but entrepreneurs, immigrants, and families — people that need and want good public school options.

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The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Small payments between friends is fueling rapid growth for Venmo, which lets people easily pay one another for everything from dinner to cocktails to paying rent.

Factories and call centers in places like India and China, often providing services for U.S. - based corporations, have helped fuel rapid growth and pull more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.

«Our plan from the start has been to drive strong cost savings to fuel investments in people, capabilities and brands that can lead to sustainable, profitable growth.

Ultimately, Modica says he is most proud of seeing the company's growth, and the success of the people who have fueled it.

«Hiring in sectors like retail and hospitality fueled a lot of the job growth, which allowed a lot of low or moderately skilled people to gain employment,» Shearer said.

Senator Tim Kennedy said, «Time and again, the Better Buffalo Fund provides an important and necessary focus on smart growth, and fuels connectivity between the places where people work, live and spend their leisure time.

By taking up the slack in the economy — millions of people are underemployed, working fewer hours than they wish — Britain could enjoy fast catch - up growth of the kind it experienced as it recovered from the Great Depression: between 1933 and 1936 UK growth exceeded 4 % per year, fuelled by a house building boom.

This is also a great option for people whose dogs are very active and need a lot of calories and protein to fuel their healthy growth.

Not only are elevated concentrations toxic to wildlife and even to people, but also even moderate concentrations can, if allowed to persist, fuel the explosive growth of algae.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century

More people are switching to lower cost entertainment, fueling the growth of online dating.

These attitude is fueling the decline in number of people getting married... and the future success and growth of the online personals industry.

PROACTIVE INVESTORS - Oct 27 - IAC revenue increased 25 % in the Q3 to $ 421.7 M. Match.com posted a 31 % increase in its sales to $ 106.2 M, fueled primarily by organic growth at Match US and People Media, as well as by the acquisition of Singlesnet and the company's venture with Meetic in Latin America.

We cover the people plants products that fuel the unprecedented growth of this evolving industry.

In the long run, most people expect the plateau to end and growth to resume, quite possibly fueled by reading on mobile phones.»

As you can see, publishing a book can expand your expert status in your industry and fuel it for long term growth and revenue, as you help people achieve their own goals.

This growth in home prices being fueled by people willing to pay higher monthly payments for houses because homes were too low.

From local shelter rescue to sanctuary to society, it has always been an acute awareness of the injustice of shelter killing and the integrity of the people who turn their lives upside down to do something to help them that has fueled our growth.

The issue is that modern agricultural - industrial civilization is the thing that is taking away the choices of the people carrying water and gathering fuel, by enabling huge population growth while simultaneously sapping resources worldwide.

Insofar as Pacala and Socolow (2004) led people to believe that we already have all the technologies we need to solve the climate problem while fueling economic growth, their paper was misleading.

Fossil fuels were a big part of the growth spurt from 1 billion to nearly 7 billion people in two short centuries.

People don't seem to realize how out - of - proportion population growth has become or how reliant it has been on fossil fuels to produce the food to allow such growth.

While waiting for the additional data, Newman and Kenworth speculate on factors they say blend together in causing peak car use - the aging of cities (more people coming back from the suburbs to the inner cores and driving less), the growth of public transport, many cities hitting a wall in expansion after average commutes (by car or even train) get beyond one hour's time, and the rise in fuel prices.

But many people are starting to suspect that resource driven and especially fossil fuel driven growth is sonhabitual that we are not going to get a grip before the damage is enormous.

The default inputs for population growth rate, GDP per capita growth rate, emissions intensity per capita, fossil fuel reserves, etc. are variables in the model and people who are competent at driving these models can change them.

«Every year, indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of 1.6 million people — that's one death every 20 seconds... In sub-Saharan Africa, the reliance on biomass fuels appears to be growing as a result of population growth and the unavailability of, or increases in the price of, alternatives such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas.»

Each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year — an all - time high — despite a global recession that slowed the growth of fossil fuel emissions for the first time this decade, according to a report published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

PA, how are you going to get billions of people out of poverty in this century, if they are going to rely primarily on fossil fuels for economic growth, and not dramatically increase CO2 emissions?

They consider: population growth; per - capita consumption; shifts in the types of goods and services people buy; structural shifts between services and manufacturing, as well as the quantity and type of goods used by industry; the amount of energy used per unit of wealth; and changes in the fuel mix.

For instance, by 2080, if we assume continuing growth rates in consumption of fossil fuels, the numbers of additional people exposed to frequent flooding in the river delta areas of the world would be counted in hundreds of millions assuming no adaptation measures were implemented.»

The industry's breakneck expansion in the archipelagic country has fueled economic growth but also deforestation, land grabbing and the annual peatland fires that last year blanketed the region in a choking haze, sickened half a million people and pumped more carbon into the atmosphere than the entire EU during a two - month period.

Just because we need to get from A to B does not mean we each need to own a car — the massive growth of Zipcar alone has shown that we can fuel economic activity, provide the service that people are looking for, with a fraction of the natural resources at a greatly reduced cost to the end consumer.

Many people argue that moving away from fossil fuels and reducing carbon emissions will impede economic growth, hurt business and hamper job creation.

The multifamily construction recovery, fueled by young people who are striking out on their own, is strongest in the South and West, particularly in markets where job growth is picking up.

To undervalue the contributions of the people who build, work and live in apartments is to ignore the opportunity for significant growth that will fuel their future economic growth.