Sentences with phrase «produce food and fuel»

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

Not exact matches

The changing climate will present new risks and new opportunities as we face the very complex task of producing enough food, feed, and fuel for a world on its way to nine billion increasingly prosperous people.

That could imperil the United States» ability to create good - paying jobs for future generations, relegating the country to producing food, fossil fuels and financial services, while China extends its lead as the world's largest manufacturer.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Canned food is an accessible and affordable solution to the nation's need for safe, nutritious and quality produce and protein, plus the metal food can is environmentally - friendly, curbs food waste and fuels the economy.

Think of all the fuel used to transport produce or baby foods across country when we can get lots of great fruits and vegetables right in our own back yard!

The pioneering scientist / entrepreneur on biology's next leap: digitally designed life - forms that could produce novel drugs, renewable fuels, and plentiful food for tomorrow's world.

Synthetic incompatibility may make it possible to use crops to produce medications as well as food, feed and fuel.

Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.

'» Among the new priorities that Marshall would like to pursue is «research to make titanium ink for 3D printing from Australia's mineral sands, produce cleaner diesel fuel from coal, and breed «new strains of food and agricultural products that are healthier, more sustainable and highly differentiated.»

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

It is stupid to use irreplaceable fossil fuels to produce food with the by - product of carbon dioxide pollution, when we can do the same using energy from sunlight and actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

These fuels produced from atmospheric CO2 are carbon - neutral and do not compete with food production for agricultural crop land.

Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a variety of organic foods, including organic milk, cheese, butter, eggs, produce and now Organic Fuel protein shakes for athletes.

Our bodies have adapted since the beginning of mankind to be able to produce BHB and use it as an efficient fuel source when food was scarce which has allowed humanity to survive food shortages and other circumstances where access to dietary carbohydrates are limited.

Put simply, your muscle produce protein from a) the fuel / food you eat, b) the exercise you do, and, c) the oxygen within your blood that's being pumped around your body.

The fuel for your body is called ATP and it is produced from the combustion of food and oxygen.)

Unless you have Type 1 diabetes, every time you eat, your body will produce insulin which essentially tells your body to use your food as fuel and stop burning body fat.

It is so obvious and simple: putting the right type of fuel / food in the child's body will contribute to producing maximum learning results.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFood for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffood and fuelfuel.

«Interest in food and nutrition for humans has skyrocketed,» said John Kampeter, vice president of marketing and sales for Diamond Pet Foods in Meta, Mo. «It's no surprise that pet - loving consumers are now thinking about the same issues for their pets, which is fueling demand for better - quality foods along with detailed information about ingredients and how they are produced.»

The track surface will be composed of recycled and repurposed materials, and the go - karts will be fueled by biodiesel produced from sustainably sourced soybean oil, collected by Food for the Parks concessionaires.

However, modern agriculture is very dependent on fossil fuels — consuming nearly 1 calorie of fossil fuel in the field per food calorie produced — and over 3 calories per food calorie delivered.

Cellulosic ethanol from grasses, sugarcane and algae probably offer the best opportunities going forward to produce clean, renewable fuel without impacting food supply.

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

Promoting energy sustainability means that as an individual I need to think beyond the light bulb, and not only promote renewable energy initiatives in my community, but also reduce my consumptive patterns, reuse as much material as possible, consider the embodied energy used to produce my food, and continue minimizing my use of fossil fuels.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

This approach forces them to be more direct, more open and honest, about the values - based reasons they oppose GM food; that it fuels commercial scale agriculture, that it produces profits for big rich companies that are harming «nature,» etc..

Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.

«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

«Farmers are the ultimate stewards of our land and water resources, and this program demonstrates that they can reduce emissions while producing food, fuel, and fiber.

Expanding U.S. biofuel production will require tradeoffs between ambitious fuel production targets and other societal goals, including protection of the water we need for drinking, growing food, preserving aquatic habitats, and producing electricity.

Currently most liquid biofuels are produced from food crops and yield low economic and environmental benefits compared to fossil fuels.

Gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc. pack a lot of energy per unit, can be burned pretty clean, do not destroy engines, are readily available, cost much less energy to produce than what they provide, and do not distort things like food supplies or national budgets to use.

On the demand side of the food equation, there are four pressing needs — to stabilize world population, eradicate poverty, reduce excessive meat consumption, and reverse biofuels policies that encourage the use of grain to produce fuel for cars.

The fuel station also includes a convenience store that carries top - shelf natural foods and beverages, many of which are produced by regional companies.

We must develop a more localized and ecologically - based agricultural system to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, absorb shocks in the global supply — and produce healthier and more affordable food for everyone.

«There is the capacity to do this while producing food, fuel and fiber.

«Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.»

Along with this is the growing demand for grain as 80 million more people are added each year, as people in emerging economies move up the food chain, and as grain is funneled away to produce fuel for cars.

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

We don't, as a rule, trouble about the carbon footprint of foodstuffs but isn't is obvious that corn produced as food is going to be more carbon - intensive than corn produced fro fuel, if only because ethanol when transported doesn't require the same packaging and refrigeration as corn?

# 1 Turn food into fuel... «Already, half of the nearly 11 billion bushels of corn produced each year is turned into ethanol, and most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10 % ethanol and 90 % gas).»

Corporations operating under only their fiduciary responsibility might choose to produce more fuel and «take food off the tables of many» whose starvation won't affect their profit.

The system is based on the principles of agronomy, the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars — one that threatens world food security.

Undoubtedly there are myriad problems with using food crops to make fuel, or using the land on which food crops are grown to produce fuel, but the answer to that problem is not simply taking the waste of another environmentally and ethically suspect activity and repurposing it.