Sentences with phrase «precious resources rather»

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

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Rather, the order of the day is simply to live life as well as one may amid the wreckage, to rebuild, and with precious few resources for doing so.

If you're looking to save water — a precious resource we should all conserve — taking a shower rather than a bath is a good place to start: A typical bath takes 30 to 70 gallons of water, while the average eight - minute shower uses only 17 gallons.

It's a rather unique play on tanzanite — a precious gemstone that appears to be incredibly limited in terms of the scale & geography of remaining world resources.

Thus investment in these technologies diverts precious resources from more effective solutions and hinders rather than helps the effort to reduce GHG emissions.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation, known as REDD +, is a UN-designed scheme to ensure that it becomes more profitable for developing countries to leave their precious rainforest resources standing, rather than chopping them down and selling the wood.

Residents of the driest inhabited continent, Australia, have evidently been cottoning onto the fact that water means life and we need to be more thoughtful in our use of this rather precious resource.

This allows parties to use precious financial resources for the benefit of the family rather than for payment of unnecessary litigation costs and attorney fees.