Sentences with phrase «smaller impact on the planet»

Larger shipments help reduce fuel costs and create a smaller impact on the planet.

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The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

One might argue that a smaller population, particularly in the developed world where the vast majority of the planet's resources are consumed, may have a beneficial impact on the environment.

«Giant planet formation in the inner part of this disk, where CI Tau b is located, will have a profound impact on the region where smaller terrestrial planets are also potentially forming.»

«Our impact on the planet is not small.»

MESSENGER's lonely demise on the small, scorched planet closest to the sun went unobserved because the probe hit the side of the planet facing away from Earth, so ground - based telescopes were not able to capture the moment of impact.

When speaking about the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth's atmosphere, Goreham correctly told NEPPA members that greenhouse emissions only make up a small fraction of the atmosphere, but wrongfully deduced that this means they could not have any significant impact on the planet.

These massive worlds would exert a herculean tidal force on any small objects in their vicinity, and many would be ripped to shreds — like Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 that was pulled apart by Jupiter's gravity and then spectacularly impacted the planet in 1994.

While a large impact on Uranus when it was still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk would have eventually produced moons in retrograde orbit around the planet, two or more smaller collisions had a much higher probability of generating the moons with the orbital direction observed today (Europlanet press release; and Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog, Discover, October 7, 2011).

But with the resiliency of the planet on our side, we can make small changes to our diets that will help to mitigate the impacts of agriculture on the environment.

A popular book among vegetarians, Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe» published in 1971, started a revolution that has had a positive impact for the past three decades on the lives of millions of people.

#Take3FortheSea We believe lots of small individual actions can have a big impact on the planet.

More specifically, the sustainability movement is quickly learning that «Green Teams» and small numbers of sustainability professionals alone will be insufficient to «turn the ship» fast enough or far enough to effectively reverse the impacts humans are having on the planet.

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Self generation with small scale hydro, wind, solar, ground source, biomass makes infinitely more sense on both the impact on the planet from massive unnecessary infrastructure, and on more sustainable living.

Because the region is so vast, even small ecological effects can scale - up to a large impact on the planet's carbon cycle,» explained Professor Phillips.»

He clarified to Campus Reform that many scientists do not argue against slight warming of the Earth after the Little Ice Age (the unusually cool period of the Earth around the 1700s A.D.), nor do those critical of anthropogenic climate change argue that humans have made no impact on the planet, merely that the effect has been small and largely beneficial.