Sentences with phrase «radical reductions of»

Carbon offsets let you pay to reduce the global greenhouse gas total instead of making radical reductions of your own.

What is actually accomplished by this determination to admit as personal only what is authenticated as individual and inwardly certified is a radical reduction of the potencies for self - knowledge.

They are a radical reduction of the use of sugar, the elimination of coffee and other stimulants, the forswearing or minimal use of alcoholic beverages, the substitution of organically grown vegetables for chemically fertilized ones and the derivation of proteins from beans, whole grains, and, in moderation, eggs and cheese.

The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken by any feminist at any time, if the thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.

The artist consistently applied a radical reduction of form from the beginning of his artistic career, starting with linear paintings.

Barring a radical reduction of emissions, we will see at least four feet of sea - level rise and possibly ten by the end of the century.

Not exact matches

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

Therefore, if we simplify our lifestyle and reduce our needs as part of the radical response, it seems likely that this reduction in needs will be followed by a reduction in income.

In addition to these concrete demands are general demands, of which the most important are: emancipation of women; radical agricultural reform; general reduction in working hours; disarmament; the rejection of all forms or racism; the creation of a planned transfer of wealth from the countries of the North to the countries of the South to compensate for the pillage which these peoples have been and still are subjected to.

It's always been at the head of the pack when it comes to creative engineering, from bringing the turbodiesel to endurance racing in 2006 to the radical weight reduction and aerodynamics of this year's R18 e-tron quattro.

The party also advocates the substitution of council tax by a land - value tax; extra funding for the NHS and public transport; the scrapping of road - building schemes; massive investment in renewable energy; a radical reduction in carbon dioxide emissions; and opposition to GM crop initiatives and fracking.

Many of the welfare reforms and reductions are likely to prove temporary as Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is developing plans for a radical «universal credit» which will replace all out - of - work benefits over the next decade.

The government's deficit reduction plan is based on growth projections that will not come about without radical deregulation of business.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Speakman theorizes that the efficiency of the mitochondria is more important than their total output: Mice on calorie - restricted diets seem to show the same mitochondria - mediated reduction in free radicals as do animals with high metabolisms.

The ketogenic diet leads to a dramatic reduction in the production of free radicals.

Research conducted at the University of California showed a 50 % reduction in free radicals after participants drank oolong for 15 days.

The quenching of free radicals or the reduction - oxidation (redox) processes occur endlessly in the body.

Magnesium deficiency has also been tied to a reduction of glutathione, another key antioxidant your body uses to fight off damage from free radicals.

Both of these minerals have antioxidant properties and contribute to the reduction of free radicals, which are the source of cellular damage.

Instead, drink the majority of your water when you first wake up to further push the fasting window, support autophagy, and support free radical reduction.

The concept is what BMW calls as the meeting of its xDrive and eDrive, describing it «the logical next step towards bringing about a radical reduction in fuel consumption and emissions».

The therapeutic dotential of dietary precursor modulation by a fish - oil - supplemented diet (n - 3 fatty acids), such as eicosapentaenoic acid (C20: 5,n - 3) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22: 6,n - 3) in the therapy of ulcerative colitis has been shown to result in a 35 % to 50 % decrease in neutrophil production of LTB4.28 Significant improvement in symptoms and histologic appearance of the rectal mucosa has been observed in several small series of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis given fish oil at 3 to 4 g daily for 2 to 6 months in uncontrolled studies.29 However, a larger, randomized, double - blind trial comprising 96 patients with ulcerative colitis failed to reveal any benefit in remission maintenance or treatment of relapse on 4.5 g of eicosapentaenoic acid daily, despite a significant reduction in LTB4 synthesis by blood peripheral polymorphonuclear cells.30 It should be emphasized, however, that the anti-inflammatory actions of the fish oils, in addition to inhibition of LTB4, include suppression of IL - 1 and platelet activating factor synthesis and scavenging of free oxygen radicals.30 The impact of increased lipid peroxidation after fish oil supplementation should be considered when altering the n - 6: n - 3 fatty acid ratio.31 Antioxidant supplementation may be able to counteract the potentially adverse effects of n - 3 fatty acids.

Fernando Pessoa's, 2007 - 08, radical reduction stands for developments of recent years and simultaneously delineates an arc back to earlier works like Strike.

Rockenschaub's works in animation, painting, sculpture, and site - specific installation use radical reduction and concentration to push the formal vocabulary of the abstract avant - garde, but never...

Rockenschaub's works in animation, painting, sculpture, and site - specific installation use radical reduction and concentration to push the formal vocabulary of the abstract avant - garde, but never strays into the color palette of more staid academia.

Exhibition and performance highlights include: MoMA PS1 Greater New York 2005; PERFORMA 05 and a performance project commissioned by the Calder Foundation for PERFORMA 13; Brooklyn Museum Open House, 2005; The Kitchen NYC, 2010; The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 2011/12; a four - night solo performance in BAM's Fisher Theater, 2012; and a solo exhibition at Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, 2013; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston & Studio Museum in Harlem 2013/14; The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013; and Aestheticised Reductions of Self - Representation at the Hales Gallery, London, 2013

Born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Italy, 1929, Turi Simeti's linguistic reduction and radical essentiality saw him become an important proponent of the culture of the ZERO movement...

For a brief period, the synergy between vanguard aesthetics and politics found its heights in the work of artists eager to bring the radical reductions and geometries of abstraction to bear on their work; strong angles, extreme perspectives, and disorienting compositions evoked the overwhelming monumentality of this new world.

This led to a radical reduction to monochrome in 1977 and saw Mosset become an important proponent of Radical Paradical reduction to monochrome in 1977 and saw Mosset become an important proponent of Radical PaRadical Painting.

The artists have voluntarily accepted new conditions for creating paintings - a series of radical reductions and eliminations in subject matter, image, association and stylistic device, as if to enable themselves to reach certain irreducible levels in the work of art and in the self.

The Plan B's include geotechnical engineering, adaptation, sucking carbon out of the air with technology, radical forced population reduction, radical cuts to consumption.

Anderson's argument is not helped by the fact that the Tyndall Centre, where he deputy director and leader of the energy and climate change research programme, recently held a conference on «radical emissions reduction», the content of which seems to be overtly political, to say the least.

Along with stuff coming out of today (and tomorrow's) Tyndall Centre radical reductions conference (hashtag #radicalplan)- finessed arguments about the theoretical possibility of decoupling growth / material throughput / carbon (i.e. what I tend to do) seem a little silly.

Nordhaus calls the Stern Review a «radical revision of the economics of climate change» and criticizes it for imposing «exessively large emissions reductions in the short run.»

Monbiot and his groupies will have destroyed a 200 year tradition of radical liberalism in defence of a hypothetical reduction in global temperature of a few hundredths of a degree.

I call it Project Zero — because its aims are a zero - carbon - energy system; the production of machines, products and services with zero marginal costs; and the reduction of necessary work time as close as possible to zero... If I am right, the logical focus for supporters of postcapitalism is to build alternatives within the system; to use governmental power in a radical and disruptive way; and to direct all actions towards the transition — not the defence of random elements of the old system.

These new solutions must be implemented until such time as we see radical reductions in the emissions of warming gases.

Notwithstanding the difficulty in making such radical reductions outside of the petroleum sector in a short timeframe, the federal and Alberta governments assert that if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) is not built, even Alberta's extremely modest «climate leadership plan» may be cancelled.

The Heathrow protesters» running battles with the police might give the impression that the protest was radical, and its aims at odds with the establishment, but Climate Camp's ultimate goal of 90 per cent reductions in UK CO2 emissions by 2050 is only 10 per cent more than the Conservative party has pledged.

Hence my support for a limited first step like Kyoto rather than a radical program of emissions reduction in the short term.

Oxidation of methane to CO2, which requires reactions with the OH radical, produces an instantaneous reduction in radiative absorption and emission since CO2 is a weaker greenhouse gas than methane, although CO2 has a longer lifetime.

Hint — there's no way implementation of these technologies (without radical fossil demand reductions) would even come close to staying within the temperature ceilings required to avoid the climate Apocalypse.

I've commented on some of those Muslim blogs, suggesting that Muslims could be cutting their own throats by supporting Green politics, because of the Malthusian population - reduction tendencies of some Green radicals.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

The alternative, possibly rather too radical, proposition of making the Bar Professional Training Course more difficult to pass — which would probably achieve the same reduction of numbers objective, give all students a fair chance to take the exam and benefit the general public onto which the thrusting young barrister is unleashed — does not appear to have survived the bacon slicer thinking behind the BCAT creation process.

David Schnarch's book The Sexual Crucible presents the radical idea that good sex is not reducible to a technical intervention, based on anxiety reduction, but is rather a function of personal development.

The reason for that, both lawmakers said, is because radical change could result in an acceleration of interest rate hikes and a reduction in home values, which would deal a blow to a vital part of the economy.