Sentences with phrase «small ecological footprint»

As with ZEPPS, magic words for the SuperGrid are hydrogen, superconductivity, zero emissions, and small ecological footprint, to which we add energy storage, security, and reliability.

Among coal's virtues is its small ecological footprint, in startling contrast to the clodhoppers that are renewable energy.

Not a believer in «All or Nothing,» I keep a small ecological footprint.

The tour operator also works to promote sustainable tourism by leaving a small ecological footprint, as well as to support select community - based efforts that protect local people, wildlife and cultural treasures.

Costa Rica has made it to # 1 on the Happy Planet Index for two years in a row (2012 & 2011), based on its national conservation policies, small ecological footprint, high quality of life and life expectancy rate all being «exceedingly above par», states Forbes Magazine.

Organic clothing benefits the earth by leaving a small ecological footprint and preserves the earth for generations of species to come.

Choosing cloth baby wipes and solutions like the all natural baby spray, bumGenius Bottom cleaner, reduces the load on landfills and makes a smaller ecological footprint for you, your family and your baby.

I left the event feeling so inspired to leave a smaller ecological footprint and to take better care of my skin health by choosing to use cleaner, healthy - for - you products.

Wanting to leave a smaller ecological footprint on the Earth, while also enjoying all the finer things in life, a couple (Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig) agrees to downsize — meaning they undergo an experimental procedure that shrinks their bodies until they are only four inches tall.

Nevertheless, we know that a wooden frame can absorb shocks and impacts better than metal frames, and is more durable and has a smaller ecological footprint than metal too (Mohorič claims that you would save 14 kilograms in carbon emissions by using this bike over a metal one).

The transformation to a smaller ecological footprint is going to take time and a sharing of our knowledge and our sweat.

From treehouses to micro-houses, we're well aware of the simple pleasures of living on a smaller ecological footprint — especially out in beautiful sylvan surroundings like Le Vent des Forêts in the Meuse region of France.

Indigenous peoples, who have smallest ecological footprints, should not be asked to carry the heavier burden of adjusting to climate change.

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has stated that indigenous peoples have the smallest ecological footprints of the world's communities and should not be asked to carry the «heavier burden of adjusting to climate change.»

Not exact matches

We are strongly committed to running our company in a way that keeps our ecological footprint as small as possible.

We began by looking at total resource consumption to see which countries have the largest (and smallest) ecological footprints.

Small - scale solar, which can essentially be done anywhere at mid and lower latitudes, has fairly limited effects on ecological habitats (though I'd like to see better resource extraction for silicon, copper, etc), concentrates resource needs to a local level, harnesses an «unlimited» resource, is a great compliment to other renewables, and once operational has no emission footprint.

Its «green» factor is up for debate since the point of a tiny home is to reduce one's ecological footprint, but there will always be a market for upscale homes, even ones as small as this.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

One hundred years ago, the carbon Footprint was a very small fraction of the overall Ecological Footprint.

Nations with shorter working hours have considerably smaller ecological and carbon footprints.

«Wind power's ecological footprint is so small — a million times smaller than ethanol's — that if all the cars driven in the United States were battery - electric, they could be fueled by wind turbines whose total land footprint, not counting spacing in between, takes up less than 1.2 square miles, Stanford University environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson found.»

But where is the beef?Cornell scientist Christian Peters is the lead author on the study showing that although a low - fat vegetarian diet has a much smaller footprint than a typical New Yorker, a little meat can go a long way in reducing the ecological footprint.

The week before we looked here at a small village whose residents were intent on tackling their collective ecological footprint.

It simply means that it is a small contributor to your overall ecological footprint relatively speaking.