Sentences with phrase «people use less energy»

Short people use less energy, take up less space and have a smaller carbon footprint.

If people use less energy (through efficiency and conservation) and shift to lower - carbon energy sources, demand for high - carbon energy will decline and it won't be economical to go chasing after unconventional fuels.

Not exact matches

A second reason is that (so the planners believe) urban life uses less energy than suburban life, because people walk instead of drive, etc..

In the less developed countries, approximately 400 pounds of grain per year is available to the average person, nearly all of which must be consumed directly merely to meet minimal food energy needs... Contrast this example to the average North American who uses nearly a ton of grain per year.

This view of the world assumes that only a limited amount of energy is available; consequently, if one country's citizens use more, the people of other countries will have less.

The government has created an online Global Calculator to help people understand how their lifestyles and energy use impact on the climate — and which underlines the importance of eating less meat.

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Government must ensure that all Green Deal compliant measures pay the lower 5 % rate of VAT as it is perverse to charge 5 % tax on a product, i.e. energy, that we want people to use less of, but 20 % on the measures which help them stop using it.»

She said it seems like a hollow ordinance and that education, advocacy and incentivizing people to throw away less would be a better use of energy than «heavy - handed» enforcement.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

Terahertz radiation is also low energy, so if they are used to scan people, the waves are less dangerous than x-rays or microwaves.

• Abundant, less expensive natural gas would lower energy prices across the board, leading people to use more energy overall.

Getting U.S. manufacturers to come up with ways to keep people cool while using less HFCs and energy could spur other nations to act.

However, even after years of growth to 2035, China will still use less energy per person than countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), suggests the agency.

The body will take longer to process these more complex fats, and will also use more energy on them making them less effective for providing people with the boost they need.

Also, people tend to be more insulin resistant in the morning; insulin is less effective at bringing sugar to the cells to use for energy.

Like you had energy, you may have been stressed, you may have been anxious but you had the energy, you know, behind you to do all the things that you needed to do, and then at some point, it started to teeter out where, you know, you're having less energy, you're feeling more fatigue, you need more naps, you need more time sleeping, you spend more time resting on the weekend, and most people when we do a detail history, we see that pattern kind of unfolding and we progress, that's called stage 1 — again, depending on what lab you use, there's a lab called Diagnos - Techs out of Washington, they have like a 7 phases of adrenal fatigue — I like keeping things really simple.

They're not all green energy, due to the minerals that go into the electronics that most people prefer to read their eBooks on, but because they are meant to be used many times over, their impact is drastically less than that of print books.

These devices» screens use much less energy, and many people find them easier to read, so there will be folks who will be viewing your beautiful, fully saturated snapshot as if it were being displayed on a 1984 Macintosh.

Using videos to meet your readers takes far less time and energy as you can meet with all of them at once, provide 3 different sessions to meet more peoples availability, and offer the replay free online for those who can't make it.

For instance, if more effective cars only use 70 % of fuel, the portion of fossil sources for energy use is adjusted down to 80 %, smart planning and collaboration results in 4 people in each car (say 30 %), and a «smart» organization of the working week means less commuting (80 %; TGIT), then combined effect of this can in theory give a reduction by 0.7 x 0.8 x 0.3 x 0.8 = 0.13.

The increasing proliferation of these tools has the potential to raise awareness among environmentally - minded people and perhaps bring pressure to bear upon utilities to use more renewable energy sources (or at least less coal mined from the tops of mountains!)

For example, 50 percent of the available energy is used by less than a billion people, whereas its negative impacts on the environmental affect three billion people who do not have access to it.

«Use less stuff, reuse the stuff we have, and change people's expectation that they have the right to an ever - increasing amount of luxury energy - expenditure.»

That money could be shifted to incentives for people to use their feet, bicycles, or smaller autos in their daily journies to work; incentives to make homes and workplaces more energy efficient; incentives to shift future land developments into in - fill projects rather than urban sprawl; and incentives to make cities more friendly to pedestrians and less friendly to cars.

The access devices use about 95 % less energy than a regular PC — roughly 1 - 4 watts per device — and with the potential of as many as 30 people all using just an access device and shared PC, that means some intense energy savings.

While this is all very interesting, and shows more foresight than many ideas of what we should to make our future better, it leaves out the most obvious part of the solution: Use less stuff, reuse the stuff we have, and change people's expectation that they have the right to an ever - increasing amount of luxury energy - expenditure.

But lets finish up this little homage to the humble «treadly» (as Australians fondly call them) with words from that radical philosopher, Ivan Illich:» [A person...] on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.

We have to rebuild our cities to use less energy and house more people, and Passivhaus design is a useful tool for both problems.

But Mark Lynas, a climate change writer in favour of using nuclear and renewables to combat global warming, said: «It is stretching credibility for the IPCC to suggest that a richer world with two billion more people will use less energy in 2050.

For example, solar photovoltaic (PV) cells convert sunlight directly into energy that people can use, much like bioenergy, but with greater efficiency and less water use.

A tax Cap - and - trade can only work by raising the price of lower - priced hydrocarbon fuels, so that people are forced either to use higher - priced alternatives or to use less energy.

NCSE isn't composed of scientists or science teachers; it's an activist group devoted, in part, to expounding global warming alarmists» dogma: Humans are causing climate change; the results will be catastrophic; and governments must force people to use less energy and live simpler to prevent future disasters.

Over time, this continually rising price provides an incentive for people and businesses to use less and find alternatives: Anyone who can lower their fuel usage and / or energy consumption, pays less tax.

The basic options are to have individuals consume less, consume things that require less energy, use energy sources that have lower ‐ carbon content, or have fewer people.

Mr Cameron's senior energy adviser pours scorn on claims by Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, that rises in gas and oil prices will be offset by people using less energy adviser pours scorn on claims by Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, that rises in gas and oil prices will be offset by people using less Energy Secretary, that rises in gas and oil prices will be offset by people using less power.

Sound design of the revenue side of carbon tax legislation will also ensure that people of limited means, who use less energy than average, are made better off, not worse.

[M] any people have latched onto the local - food movement, billing themselves «locavores,» as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large - scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

The equation tells us that if we wanted to lower CO2 we could (1) kill people, or (2) starve them, or (3) convert fossil fuels to energy more efficiently (with less CO2 produced), or (4) use non-fossil energy sources.

The above is from the Energy Saving Trust, a # 60million a year UK government - funded organisation, designed to «help» people to use less eEnergy Saving Trust, a # 60million a year UK government - funded organisation, designed to «help» people to use less energyenergy.

And it is sad that you haven't even read the article to understand how this option is good for all of us — to grow our economy while creating cleaner air, and putting money in citizens» pockets to encourage people to conserve and use less energy.

Somehow, not using energy turned into the «ethical» thing to do — the less you use, the better person you are.

No less by the very people (climate scientists included) who hide behind their claims they accept the science of climate change and the urgent need for immediate actions which must include changes to Laws and Regulations directly related to energy production and use.

In fact, the average resident of Manhattan uses much less energy, and has a much smaller carbon footprintAmount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that a person, community, industry, or other entity contributes to the atmosphere through energy use, transportation, and other means.

As a result the scenario features more than 9 billion people enjoying a much higher GDP than today's 7 billion in 2050 while using less energy not just per capita, but overall.

We hope to leverage the power in numbers and inspire more and more people to step up and make meaningful lifestyle changes; from using less energy to building a more equitable economy.

But let's not kid anyone — the price of fossil fuel based energy has to rise dramatically in order to encourage people to use less of it.

From the promotion of how important it is for young people to vote in U.S. elections to ad series like Break the Addiction where MTV encourages their viewers to find ways to use less fossil fuels and energy, the brand is strong.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson — who testified about the partnership before Congress — said the idea is that these goals would wind up emphasizing developments that use less land and energy, provide affordable housing to people of all income and stages of life, make it easier for people to get to their destinations on foot, bike or public transit and direct growth to developed areas.

«I educate people, not only to make homes safer, but they'll use a lot less energy and help our country and world be a better place.»