Sentences with phrase «plants have done»

Our plants have done well for years with little care or maintenance other than pruning them back each fall.
Its Mexican plants would likely sell more outside North America and its U.S. plants would do fine behind a higher tariff wall, as long as the United States was still producing cars domestically.
I do have a balcony where I could place some pots, but I'm not sure how well a tomato plant would do.
Saying no to a suspect plant would do more than anything else to restore public confidence.
I'd far rather live with the aftereffects of a «worse than worse case» nuclear accident like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm than what a few of those concentrating solar plants would do to the Mojave.
«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India (http://selco-india.com/), and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.
I imagine renewable energy and forest plantings would do very well under such a regime.
«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India, and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.
Said Earthjustice attorney Charles McPhedran: «The Danskammer plant has done enough harm to its neighbors and must not burn coal again.

Not exact matches

Ford (f) has repeatedly said it has no plans to close any U.S. plants and likely could not do so under the terms of the current United Auto Workers contract that expires in 2019.
If some plants and animals don't age, why should humans have to?
For big food processors like Maple Leaf, the only way to offer that and still make a profit is by consolidating into big, modern plants, so you can benefit from scale and keep up with the pack, because, Grier warns, not doing so would guarantee failure.
But before you can even start tending your «plant,» you have a lot of preparation to do.
«It's always better to get to the end of your experience and have extra money for your re-entry or your nest egg,» she says, adding that the exact amount of money you need varies depending on whether you plan to travel or stay planted in one location, what activities you plan to do and whether you have a job waiting for you at the other end.
He has been doing so for 10 years, a relationship that began when entrepreneurship professor David BenDaniel invited Keller to present a case study about an instance in which Cascade was considering purchasing a plant in California.
«Or people who have fixed landscaping and don't want to rip up everything to plant a carrot.»
The government will have to step in «so that people don't start howling,» said a welder who has worked at the plant in southern Siberia for more than six years.
There would be nothing left for people to do here,» he said in one of the town's few cafes, explaining that the private firm he now works at also depends on the plant.
On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.
«Working at power plants nowadays, it's very, very strict in how they would do a job that'd incur radiation exposure to an individual,» Semones said.
During the old regime, «you didn't even talk to management,» says Tim Blevins, a press operator who has worked at the plant for 15 years, under the previous ownership and the present one.
Though See's doesn't officially give public tours of its plants, well - known fans like Cher — who worked at See's before she achieved fame — have come by, and Buffett once brought Bill Gates for a tour.
The plant was by all accounts a microcosm of corporate America — a facility that was well equipped but had a toxic atmosphere, the kind of place where managers perpetually told employees what they were doing wrong and union workers retaliated by finding excuses not to work.
Plenty of the people at the Severn plant have come to share the Centenaris» dream of building a big company — particularly when Paul predicts, as he did at one recent meeting, how much their stock appreciation rights will rise in value if Atlas keeps growing at its current pace.
«They're not just responsible for quality and controlling cost but looking for new business and thinking of new things the plant could do,» says Ivey's Boothe, who has studied Linamar's management practices.
«He has 50 years of manufacturing knowledge, and when he does a CAT with one of our plants, he teaches [managers] not just technical ideas but about urgency,» says Linda.
For months, employees at Carrier's Indianapolis plant have closely followed the company's plans to close the factory and Donald Trump's promise to keep it from doing so.
While Chevron's takeover and BC LNG's contract move Canada closer to having an LNG industry, their experience suggests not all proposed LNG plants will get built in the first place, those that do will likely take longer than expected, and there will be hard bargaining between the suppliers in Canada and the buyers in Asia.
Kenneth Freeman, Ambius» head of innovation, has been with the company since the 1990s and has since evolved his understanding of why humans are drawn to keeping plants in indoor environments and why doing so improves health and well - being.
«Just as you'd have a professional engineer look after your photocopier or your water dispensers,» Freeman says, «plants are just as important a part of your office environment, and they need that same degree of professional service if you want them to be doing their best for the people who work there.»
I've been through about eight or 10 plant closures, and this was complete shock,» said Jones, who didn't support Trump during the presidential race and would still not call himself a Trump supporter.
At the center of the agency's decision not to subject the new crop to its rules is the fact that the CRISPR - edited crops don't contain any «introduced genetic material» or foreign DNA, and so would not be a threat to other plants.
I would be happy to do the leg work of finding a plant in the US to make it if you would endorse it.
Also, «U.S. manufacturers would be able to fully expense new plant and equipment investments, though by doing so would forego any deduction for net interest expense.
But he did so only after the advent of cheap shale gas had already rendered coal uneconomic, meaning many coal - fired plants would have been shuttered regardless of new rules from the EPA.
US manufacturers would be able to fully expense new plant and equipment investments, though by doing so would forego any deduction for net interest expense.
Whether it's fish farms and the dirty pact Campbell has with Alcan in the northwest, fish farms up and down the coast, proposed LNG plants on the north coast, the wiping out of the unique ecology at Eagleridge in West Vancouver, the transmission lines in Tsawwassen, the Gateway project, especially though not exclusively in Delta, the abandonment of the Cambie Street merchants, private power smashing the environment around the province or the stealthy but persistent privatization of BC Hydro, the premier has enraged British Columbians not just for what he's done, but for his callous indifference to the wishes of people.
What they do not explain is that Law's initial infusion of money led to a fluorescence of employment and prosperity, for the early effect of providing money is like watering plants that have been living in parched soil.
As a result, it's difficult to know how much, if at all, Trump may have considered the stock, particularly considering that he didn't appear to remember his initial promise to save the Carrier plant.
If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.
That change might not be of consequence for the Oscar Mayer plant's future in Madison, but it would help to ensure that we do not lose more major employers in Madison or other Wisconsin communities.
One thing to be aware of in doing research on a particular product or person is that there is a trend out there of having plants write positive reviews as opposed to actual consumers.
In response to my question about what, if anything, the city or state could have done to keep Madison's Oscar Mayer plant open, Kraft Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen said «the closing of the Madison factory was based entirely on the need to reduce operational redundancies and eliminate excess capacity within our North American network.»
It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.
They're also getting incentives from Edison, which is now saving money because they don't have to go out and build peaker plants to avoid brownouts or blackouts.
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 think of it as meat made a better way... Meat today basically is made using pre-historic technology, using animals to turn plants into this very special category of food... But to your typical consumer... the value proposition of meat has nothing to do with its coming from an animal.»
What local and state officials did or didn't do in recent months had little impact on Kraft Heinz's decision to close its Madison Oscar Mayer plant.
He said while there were some disturbing signs — the loss of 165 administrative jobs in August and construction of a new hot dog line at an Oscar Mayer plant in Missouri — Madison plant workers had been told they were doing a good job.
And this evening, in a new government report, we get a first look at the damage that was done and how much of an impact it may have on the spring planting season.
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