Sentences with phrase «positive human footprint»

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while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Robust and accurate Ecological Footprint accounts can help us make decisions towards sustainability, and can quantitatively show the positive impacts of groups, businesses, and people making decisions that are helping to bring human demand within the means of the planet.

Positive decoupling trends offer hope for a «good Anthropocene,» in which humans shrink their footprint and create more room for nature.

By setting out to create a positive, regenerative human footprint, by tapping local energy flows and integrating building and landscape, the design outperforms buildings that set energy efficiency as their highest goal.

He will discuss Cradle to Cradle as a design protocol that can change how we make things — products, architecture, cities, and more — and help us think about the human footprint in positive terms, rather than something to be minimized toward a goal of zero.