Sentences with phrase «reduce our environmental impact since»

We can reduce our environmental impact since food waste puts unnecessary pressure on land and natural resources and results in additional greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Boring Company's website claims that creating bricks would reduce both the tunneling costs and the environmental impact of its projects (since cement production accounts for over 4 % of global CO2 emissions).

Since we can grow it in much closer proximity to our production sites, we can further reduce both the environmental impact as well as our logistics costs by a substantial margin.

Today's electric system strives to meet three requirements: very high reliability, low cost, and, increasingly since the 1970s, reduced environmental impacts.

Repeated a number of times is the stat about how much improvement has been made: Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of output from tar sands production have dropped 39 % since 1990 according to official figures — with a laundry list of improvements undertaken to reduce this aspect of their environmental impact.

And since heating can account for a significant percentage of home energy use (according to Lancey CEO Raphaël Meyer, up to 67 % in Europe, whereas the US puts it at about 42 % in the United States, and the IEA says that almost 80 % of energy demand in the buildings sector is from heating), this represents a great opportunity for both homeowners and rental property owners alike to reduce both their costs and their environmental impact.

The benefits of green homes include: • Lower operational costs than conventional homes due to greater energy and water efficiency, which can result in lower utility bills; • High quality construction, since green label requirements for building materials and techniques often go beyond standard building codes; • More comfortable and stable indoor temperatures; • Healthier indoor air quality; and • Other features that reduce environmental impact such as proximity to parks, shops and transit.