Sentences with phrase «reduce consumption by»

The typical household should be able to reduce its consumption by 40 per cent without it crimping a family's lifestyle.

With the Passive House Standard, it is possible to reduce this consumption by up to 90 percent, and the remaining demand can be met sustainably through renewable energy sources.

For a family of 4, solar water heating will reduce consumption by approximately 2,000 Kwh per day and refrigeration by 200 Kwh per year.

By giving the rebate to the poorer segments of society it has been demonstrated that the motivation to reduce consumption by this poorer segment of society has been significantly reduced.

We looked for states where the solar technical potential in the residential sector was at least 50 % of current residential consumption, or of residential consumption if energy efficiency were to reduce consumption by an average of 30 %.

Gwinnett County Commissioners will consider tougher fines, including up to a $ 1,000 penalty for repeat offenders and doubling the water rate for large users who don't reduce consumption by 10 percent.

... seem reasonable for the top 20 % to reduce consumption by a factor of 4 and the bottom 20 % to increase by a factor of 4... for countries like Australia... a further 75 %.

The 2.0 - liter turbo engine from the Opel GT produces an impressive power output per liter of 132 hp and features «Cam - Phase» — variable camshaft phasing — , which together with other measures reduce consumption by an extra three percent.

It cleverly dispenses one sheet at a time and can reduce consumption by up to 40 percent.

These measures may reduce our consumption by 10 per cent or so; as an answer to a possible increase of 800 per cent, they amount to no more than mopping up some of the water.

However, there is no point in emphasising how difficult it will be to reduce consumption by the affluent.

Under optimal flying conditions, it can temporarily reduce consumption by as much as 50 %.

Installing energy efficient light bulbs immediately reduces consumption by around 80 %.

Examining a major Michigan weatherization program, the study found that while upgrades reduced consumption by about 10 to 20 percent, the total energy savings generated over a 16 - year window amounted to less than half of the initial weatherization costs.

The Efficiency version of the C30 1.6 D reduces consumption by more than 8 %, or 0.4 l / 100 km from... Read more →

Cemu 1.10.0 now has an NVIDIA ram usage fix reducing consumption by up to 50 %.

In econ - speak, the explanation is that demand is very inelastic: a price increase of (say) 10 percent reduces consumption by much less than 10 percent.

The main reason for this reduction in prices is the reduced consumption by people as a result of the recession.

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Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

$ AGN is committed to doing our part to reduce climate change: decrease energy consumption, greenhouse gas, water use & waste by ~ 20 % in 2020

Epson's version, the TM - T88V printer, is also energy star compliant, can reduce paper use by 75 %, and has a very low energy consumption level.

By introducing plant - based options through restaurants and catering companies, an entire office building, school, or hospital can drastically reduce meat consumption.

In fact, Work Truck Magazine indicates that telematics systems can reduce overall fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent.

The group said its members had been voluntarily trying to reduce sugar consumption by making calorie content information more visible on labels, as well as discontinuing sales of full - calorie sodas to schools nationwide, and replacing them with more lower - calorie or no - calorie beverages, along with smaller portion size options.

Since then, it has helped to reduce water consumption by about 40 per cent.

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Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

They will have to either secure additional income by that time or reduce their consumption (or some combination of both).

For developed economies, in other words, significantly higher capital inflows from abroad would either cause savings to decline as the inflows strengthen their currencies and reduce exports — causing either unemployment or consumption to rise — or, if their central banks act to sterilize the inflows, to increase imports by increasing consumer debt.

Historically whenever global demand is weak, and unemployment high, countries will try to gain a larger share of that demand by reducing wages or otherwise taxing households to subsidize production (devaluing the currency is just a way to tax the consumption of imports and to subsidize exporters).

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

I think this would subsidize exporters indirectly (reducing the currency value) and therefore increase invesment while also reducing domestic savings by forcing up consumption on «core» items, so that would reduce the current account surpluses.

Even if you just change the air filter annually, you can reduce your air conditioner's energy consumption by as much as 15 %, according to The Alliance to Save Energy.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

Many companies have participated in a sustainability program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one billion tons and fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons over 10 years.

With Blockchain 3.0, Unify Earth ® will add more security, mining efficiencies and speed, all while reducing power consumption by at least 50 percent.

It's not something that can be reduced to a one - liner for consumption by those who think intelligence is wisdom.

For example, a carbon tax that reduced oil consumption might be deemed an illegal restraint of trade unless it were mandated by some international body.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

We can reduce consumption of heating and cooling fuels by improving our insulation.

The company layers sustainable practices into its operations, reducing water consumption by establishing best practices such as weekly system inspections to identify and repair leaks, using dry lubrication conveyor bels, and air - rinsers instead of water to rinse containers prior to filling.

It's best to limit sugar consumption overall, whether it's natural or not, but if you're coming from a background of eating lots of sugar, sometimes it's helpful to ease off of it by replacing regular sugar with natural sugar before reducing total sugar intake overall.

I understand that healthy fats are good (butter, EVOO, grass - fed beef / liver etc) and I include them in my diet, but I'd like to see studies and real - life testimonies of people who can demonstrate by test results that their overall cardiac risk improved by adding more of these fats to their diet while reducing consumption of phytic acid.

It's part of an effort on my part to eat a little bit healthier by reducing my meat consumption.

The 20 % tax is predicted to reduce consumption of concentrated sugar sweetened drinks by 15 % and non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks by 16 %.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».

Gel Spice says the lighting benefits the environment by reducing the fuel consumption and the emission of greenhouse gases.

In response to its findings, Le Pain Quotidien now uses LED lighting in all 90 of its U.S. locations, which has reduced its energy consumption by 60 percent and its carbon emissions by 168 metric tons.