Sentences with phrase «percent less land»

According to the company, making the plant - based burger uses 99 percent less land, 85 percent less water, and emits 89 percent less greenhouse gas than traditional beef production.

Researchers concluded that the Impossible Burger utilizes 87 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions, 74 percent less water, and 95 percent less land than conventional beef.

Did you know a gallon of milk is produced with 90 percent less land and 65 percent less water that it was decades ago?

He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Not exact matches

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

This is, however, still less than one percent of total U.S. agriculture land.

Park District officials said the land that would be affected is less than a half - acre owned by the city, far less than the necessary 10 percent of the overall affected land that requires city involvement.

But Park District officials maintain the land that would be affected is less than a half - acre owned by the city, far less than the 10 percent requirement.

That leaves Carvin just under 20 percent more to go to land a slot on the ballot and less than four days to find it in, since the Republicans are scheduled to hold their nominating convention in Rochester this Friday.

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Research.

In Tucson's historic Armory Park neighborhood, John Wesley Miller is constructing a community of 99 solar - powered Mission - style houses that use up to 80 percent less energy than the surrounding houses yet sell in the low $ 200,000 s. Brian Bombeck, president of the Sacramento Land division of U.S. Home, is overseeing a grand plan to install solar roofs on nearly half the 1,880 houses in a development near the California state capital.

One recent study by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson (2007) found that although coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level constitute only 2 percent of the world's land area, they contain 10 percent of the world's population.

In 1969, even before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, the «do more» responses fell sharply to near the 20 percent level, and «do less» resumed being the favored answer, garnering around 40 percent.

Current estimates show that it has declined to less than 10 percent of its original range, and mostly consists of isolated and relatively small patches of land.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

Sixty percent of the world's population will likely live in cities by the year 2030, so models like Aerofarms that grow food for urbanites using less land and less transportation are only going to become more important.

Choosing sustainable palm oil for food and personal care applications means that less land needs to be used, and if the palm is grown using sustainable practices (100 percent organic, regenerative agriculture, third - party certifications, and social programs), it is extremely beneficial for local communities and the environment.

«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could sell a single book copy, much less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»

Defending a proposal to spend less state money acquiring land for conservation, Sen. Alberta Darling, R - River Hills, said «18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally, state or county owned for conservation purposes.»

Sticking to 70 mph or less on the highway usually improved economy by up to fifteen percent, but in a land where traffic moves at 80 mph, such tactics weren't often practical.

The need is dire: Dependence on wood for cooking and heating has reduced the amount of forest cover from a healthy 25 percent at the beginning of the 1900s to less than 8 percent today, causing flooding, erosion, and landslides that have destroyed homes and arable land.

Ten countries or areas have no forest at all and an additional 54 have forest on less than 10 percent of their total land area (Figure 2).

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

Since the turbines occupy less than 1 percent of the land in a wind farm, this technology lets farmers harvest both energy and crops from the same land.

When they looked at a broader land classification called «urban / community» that encompasses both urban areas and other areas of less - dense human habitation, they found that those regions lost a collective total of 0.7 percent.

Hall and Dr. Atiq Rahman, a climate scientist, pore over a map and check out just how low the low - lying Bangladeshi coast is: «Around 80 percent of the country is located in floodplains and nearly 25 percent of its land is less than 7 feet above sea level.»

In 1949, tropical forests covered 21 percent of the country's land area, but now less than 7 percent of Burma is forested.

These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre - feet of rain at a cost of less than $ 11 per acre - foot.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with less than 0.1 percent of the state's land area, provide breeding grounds for 90 percent of its seabirds, about 6 million of them, representing some 20 species.

The Brazilian portion of the Amazon comprises 4 × 106 km2, 12 less than 1 percent of global land area, but disproportionally important in terms of aboveground terrestrial biomass (15 percent of global terrestrial photosynthesis [Field et al., 1998]-RRB- and number of species (~ 25 percent, Dirzo and Raven, 2003).

(07/17/2013) 80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago.

And over the past five years, the average is less than 10 percent — despite Denmark having «carpeted» its land with the machines.

Because the wind turbines would require a modest amount of spacing between them to allow room for the blades to spin, wind farms would occupy about 0.5 percent of all U.S. land, but this amount is more than 30 times less than that required for growing corn or grasses for ethanol.

«Land degradation and desertification may be regarded as the silent crisis of the world, a genuine threat to the future of humankind,» Arnalds said.Although food production has more or less kept pace with population growth by increasing 50 percent between 1980 and 2000, it is unclear whether we'll have enough food to feed the estimated three billion more mouths in 2050.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

The panels themselves only account for about 20 percent of the cost, but if the solar panels had a much greater energy output, there could be fewer of them generating the same amount of energy, meaning less land required and fewer labor hours.

Agricultural land use has become less common over time, declining from 63 percent in 1949 to 52 percent in 2012 (the latest data available).

Less is More on Intake Forms Intake forms and website landing pages that require only the consumer's contact information had a higher conversion rate, ranging from 10 to 35 percent.

Of the entities and groups with a potential role to progress economic development on land, our survey demonstrated that less than 50 percent of NTRBs and traditional owners were accessing Australian Government funds.

While Traditional Owners as individuals may be less resourced to seek funding, it is concerning that only 44 percent of the NTRB survey respondents were receiving land development funds or funds for projects on land.

Although less than 7 percent of Arlington's land area is high - density development, that area generates 70 percent of the county tax base, according to Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community, produced by the Local Government Commission, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating livable communities.

«Bascom was able to access mezzanine and preferred equity capital available in today's market and obtain financing on The Breakers Resort by adding a parcel of developable land as collateral, resulting in a blended cost of capital of less than 5 percent and a combined debt yield of 6.25 percent,» said Erland in a statement.

Less than 3 percent of the land in Jackson Hole is privately owned.

«Less than 10 percent of land would need to be rezoned, and that is where 80 percent of the development is going to go.»

They quickly landed a contract and, even though the offer was about $ 30,000 less than they paid for the house, they may profit from the sale because the U.S. sales proceeds will go about 20 percent further in Canada than they would in the U.S.

The cost per square foot for a new manufactured home can be up to 50 percent less than the cost of a comparable site - built home, excluding land costs.

Paper products made from recycled material use 40 percent less energy and water being manufactured which in turns creates far less air, land, and water pollution.

Luxury landscaping, over one acre of land, and in - ground pools were chosen by 26 percent or less of survey respondents.