Sentences with phrase «reduce household consumption»

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First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

At the same time unemployment will rise, which will partially reduce the savings rate, but worried Chinese households with jobs will cut back on consumption, which will increase the savings rate.

In the case of the household sector, both Mr. Flaherty and the Governor of the Bank of Canada are warning Canadians about their high debt levels and urging them to curtail their consumption and to reduce their debt.

Using PSID data from 1976 through 2003, we find that households that experience an involuntary job loss reduce their consumption more if they live in states with higher bankruptcy exemptions.

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).

Households have reduced their indebtedness and increased their saving, and consumption growth in the December quarter was the strongest in over two years.

There are volumes of information available on what a household, a person, a business, or a legislator can do to reduce personal or national energy consumption.

reducing phosphorus losses from crop spillages, non-edible crop by - products, and wastage during food processing, retail and household food consumption

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

In 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District tried to reduce household energy consumption by issuing bills that compared customer's energy use to their neighbors.

As households increase savings and reduce debt, consumption is lower contributing to slower growth.

Anyway, I got around to reducing our household water consumption by about half, without hardly noticing any difference in lifestyle, and saving $ $ $ in water bills and gas (to heat the water) bills.

They have a few other sustainability projects already going on there, like a grey and black water recycled program designed to reduced household water consumption by 50 %.

The «E-Energy» program reportedly demonstrated that the energy consumption of private households could be reduced by up to 10 % using intelligent systems and appropriate incentive mechanisms.

The project has reduced household energy consumption by up to 15.2 % and office building consumption by up to 22.8 % through demand response (DR) testing during peak times of electricity usage.

Projects that are rooted in the installation of efficient stoves and household biogas improve indoor air quality and reduce fuel consumption.

Reducing household electricity consumption through demand side management: the role of home appliance scheduling and peak load reduction.

The new 2025 energy efficiency target will cut emissions and energy costs by incentivizing building developers, commercial and institutional building owners, and residential households to pursue building improvements to reduce energy consumption by 185 trillion BTUs (British thermal units) below forecasted energy use in 2025, the equivalent to energy consumed by 1.8 million New York homes.

If a household reduced its overall consumption of carbon by simply buying the cheaper products in the new carbon - penalized marketplace, not only would their purchases be offset, they could earn money from the deal.

The distance each household's dung beetle travels is based on how successful they are in reducing power consumption.

Participants were informed about a fictional study — unrelated to the emission reduction preference question — in which 800 Australians were asked how much they would be willing to reduce their household energy consumption, either 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, or 25 %.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

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

This in turn, will push the entire «shelter industry» (from builders to appraisers to real estate agents to lenders) to focus more on homes» energy efficiency, an awareness that will inevitably reduce household energy consumption and make housing more affordable.

The rationale: Owners of homes that reduce energy consumption pay lower utility bills than owners of energy guzzlers, so why not factor these out - of - pocket savings into calculations of household debt - to - income ratios and appraised valuations?

Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to show you some of our new «water-wise» plants and ways that we are adding color to the garden and at the same time helping us continue to reduce our water consumption by 35 % by saving household water and using «grey» water from the shower and kitchen to water the container plants.