Sentences with phrase «plant carbon footprints»

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

We are aware that running our business leaves a carbon footprint, so we try our best to offset these omissions through planting trees with Treesponsibility, who have granted us carbon neutral status.

The Coega plant is more efficient than traditional UHT milk processing plants and has the smallest carbon footprint in the southern hemisphere.

Made from 100 per cent renewable, natural wood fibres from well - managed forests and high - quality recycled content from James Cropper's own world - class recycling plant, COLOURFORM ™ acts as a sustainable alternative to plastic and other packaging materials and aims to help brands reduce their carbon footprint.

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

Cayuga Marketing LLC — a collective of dairy farmers in the Finger Lakes Region, NY — decided to construct their local processing plant to reduce their milk - hauling costs while also greatly reducing transport emissions and carbon footprint as a result of the shorter transportation distances involved.

One of the United State's newest dairy processing plants features advanced waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy from waste streams to drive production processes and reduce its carbon footprint.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

A combination of explosive popularity of plant proteins and rapidly growing demand for foods manufactured with a much smaller carbon footprint is giving alternative proteins a big push.

This will save First Milk from having to upgrade the old, inefficient plant, reducing their effluent treatment costs and carbon footprint, while cutting operational costs, which are borne by Lake District Biogas.

Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

«The sustainability attributes mushrooms offer — such as carbon footprint reduction, supplementing animal protein with plant protein, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant attributes — resulted in greater commercial appeal,» he said.

«Our bottle is revolutionary in that it will decrease — and why not eventually see disappear — glass packaging in favour of containers of plant origin with a negative carbon footprint (the plant absorbs more carbon that is needed to produce the bottle),» says the company.

I'm planting a small garden not only for the food it will provide to me and my family and to reduce our carbon footprint, but for the experience it will provide us all.

The carbon footprint for these plants has been anticipated and is already figured into the NYS Clean Energy Plan.

This means that the energy consumption and carbon footprint of marijuana growers would go way down, as the light the plants need for photosynthesis could be provided more naturally by the sun.

This month we will purchase a carbon offset for $ 4,796 from Carbonfund.org, a nonprofit that will compensate for our footprint by planting trees and investing in renewable energy.

The smaller footprint and cost would help enable the possibility of small - scale (in the 1 - 10 megawatt range) supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle - based concentrating solar power plants, making concentrating solar power more competitive with other types of renewable energy.

Today a similar panel is reviewing proposed EPA guidelines for how states or businesses can calculate the carbon footprint of power plants using biomass such as wood.

You may think you're helping out the environment by recycling, but the most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is actually to eat a plant - based diet!

In fact, a plant - based diet will cut your carbon footprint by a full 50 %.

Plant foods also contain fiber for a healthy digestive system and have a smaller carbon footprint.

The cultivation of sugarcane utilizes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which gives our plant - based plastic a negative carbon footprint.

They have offset over 130 tons of carbon for their travelers» flights through Carbon Fund, a non-profit organization that calculates the carbon footprint of businesses and the cost of offsetting it through initiatives like tree planting.

Aquaponic systems typically have a lower carbon footprint than traditional soil, hydroponic, or aquaculture farms, due to the symbiosis between the fish, the beneficial bacteria, and the plants.

Why are we not hearing the global warming - carbon footprint folks grumble about two coal fired plants being commissioned weekly in China.

Those things are great, but it can also be as simple as opening the eyes of a child to the native plants just beyond the playground, or helping a student calculate the carbon footprint of his trip to school.

Obviously that non-renewable electricity generation has its own carbon footprint, but it's easier to control hundreds of power plants than hundreds of millions of vehicles.

Computer modeling of the NRDC plan, which used the same model used by the EPA, suggests that if the EPA does follow this approach, the US could see a 26 percent cut in power plant emissions — and an overall reduction in the US carbon footprint of 10 percent by 2020 — the largest share of achieving the 17 percent reduction the president has called for.

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

In the U.S., several states are firm in their commitment to fight global warming by reducing their carbon footprint, while Europe as a whole is committed to closing a number of its coal plants.

With some studies suggesting that going vegetarian «can cut your carbon footprint in half,» the movement to a plant - based lifestyle may just be the best food trend so far.

COMMENTARY: America's struggling nuclear plants are worth saving due to their zero carbon footprint, but it will take advocacy and organizing to ensure they stay open, says Vox's David Roberts.

suggesting that going vegetarian «can cut your carbon footprint in half,» the movement to a plant - based lifestyle may just be the best food trend so far.

These include more efficient coal plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon footprint than directly burning coal.

The cultivation of sugarcane utilizes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which gives our plant - based plastic a negative carbon footprint.

No disrespect intended, but wouldn't he have to come back as a plant to neutralize his carbon footprint?

So rather than change utility or power plant behavior, Boulder's tax acts as an education tool for consumers to lower their carbon footprint and a revenue source for green programming.

Building solar, wind or nuclear plants creates an insignificant carbon footprint compared with savings from avoiding fossil fuels, a new study suggests.

In a world turned upside down, every community and every company measures their «carbon footprint» and tries to reduce emissions of a harmless, invisible gas that is essential for photosynthesis and the growth of plants.

The cultivation of sugarcane utilizes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which gives plant - based plastic a negative carbon footprint.

Now in Switzerland roughly half of the power comes from hydroelectric plants with the other half coming from nuclear plants plus a smidgen of geothermal, wood, wind, etc., so there is essentially zero «carbon footprint» in electrical power here to start off with.

Paul Stradins will examine the cell and module technologies currently on the cusp of market introduction 12:20 Discussion 12:25 Pitch 1: Heraeus 12:35 Discussion and voting 12:39 Pitch 2: SunPower will pitch on the cost savings available with their new p line modules 12:44 Discussion and voting 12:48 Pitch 3: GCL will talk about the combination of PERC with black silicon 12:53 Discussion and voting 12:57 Pitch 4: Hanwha Q - CELLS with the thesis «Steel frame PV modules with advanced cell technologies enable the reduction of ~ 20 % in the installation and material costs of PV plants, as well as > 15 % in the manufacturing carbon footprint of PV modules.

Currently, a number of the existing coal plants are running at low efficiencies, or have been retired early, in line with the Ministry of Power's strategy for reducing the carbon footprint of the sector.

Following a QAS approved carbon footprint calculation, this tree planting package (which also includes retiring Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) credits from registered projects) meets the requirements under the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting.

«The 80m - high turbines will be installed at the company's plant at Whittlesey, in Cambridgeshire, as part of a drive to lower the company's carbon footprint and move its operations towards sustainability.

Buyers of the credits include power plants that need to offset emissions that exceed European limits, countries buying offsets to comply with the Kyoto Protocol — an international environmental treaty — and some environmentally conscious companies that voluntarily offset their carbon footprint.

Beyond our internal carbon footprint reductions, our solar rooftop systems and power plants operate without generating greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore our customers» use of SunPower systems avoids many times the amount of greenhouse gases generated in their own manufacturing and delivery operations.

«When individuals offset their carbon footprint through projects like CDI's Trees of Hope, they're not only taking action on their unavoidable, personal contribution to climate change, but they're also addressing challenges like food security and education because many farmers include income - generating crop trees in their plantings and use their carbon finance earnings to pay for their children's schooling fees.