Sentences with phrase «than material goods»

It also offers a unique opportunity for students wanting to understand how happiness and satisfaction are key drivers rather than material goods.

After all, studies do show that experiences (and less debt) make people happier than material goods.

Our experiences are a bigger part of ourselves than our material goods... You can really like your material stuff.

Millennials are more likely to spend money on food than material goods.

Increasingly, young people are moving into cities to rent, not buy, and many prefer to spend their money on experiences rather than material goods.

Not exact matches

While the over-the-docks prices of imported final goods increased by more than 10 per cent over the past year, prices of imported inputs into manufacturing rose by 6 per cent and the prices of domestically sourced raw materials fell (Table 6).

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

The new fellowship, new friendships, and mutual sharing of what little material goods any of them may have will more than make up for what they have lost.

There is nothing clearer in the message of Jesus than his indictment of acquisitiveness, and the putting of one's trust in material rather than spiritual goods.

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As a trusted ingredient supplier to consumer - branded packaged goods companies in the food, beverage, oral care, fine and household fragrance categories, Robertet maintains a presence in more than 50 countries, including raw materials processing and compound production facilities in 18 nations.

I know that being green seems to lend itself to being «greener than thou» instead of educating, and it lends itself to media coverage that is fear mongering and a culture of denying oneself material goods.

«In the era of digitisation, exchanging goods for material and immaterial compensation or for a feeling of sheer altruism remains an important human behaviour,» the team says, «But rather than tightening enforcement to protect their assets content providers would benefit more by initiating communication with the illegal downloaders and profiting from global online networking rather than fighting it.»

Material goods costing money also tend to bring less happiness than experiences, which tend to take more time than money.

We have and consume twice as many material goods than we collectively did 50 years ago, but statistically we are much less happy.

More than 40,000 square feet are dedicated to manufacturing and packaging, and this also includes a 4,000 - square - foot full - service laboratory to test all raw materials and goods.

Matt & Nat manufactures all of their vegan goods in regularly visited factories, and uses more sustainable materials than most vegan shoe companies.

Though lately the tendency of getting a Russian bride abroad has become smaller, it is all because a lot of Russian women understood that life abroad has its own benefits and started using those men in their own interests, which is eventually not a good thing, it didn't helped a lot neither them, nor women whom were really interested not in material goods but finding a soul mate abroad and creating a real family life, what can be possibly better than that?

Researchers found that spending money to save time actually makes people happier than buying material goods.

People who highly value material goods (an orientation reinforced by consumer marketing) are likely to be more unhappy and have a lower quality of life than those who value more internal or nonmaterial rewards such as creativity, competence, and contributing to the community.

Both are also very likely to fall prey to «loss aversion,» a key tenet of Prospect Theory, which tells us that humans typically respond to the loss of resources — be it time, effort, emotion, material goods or their proxy, i.e., money — more strongly than they react to a similar gain.

The authors suggest that to increase happiness people should, among other things, buy many small pleasures than a few large ones, opt for more experiences and fewer material goods and pay close attention to the happiness of others.

Other materials were also important as commodities rather than elite goods.

Rather than exchanging valuable ammo for goods and weapon upgrades, you'll be scavenging junk on the service to turn into chemicals and materials, allowing you to craft the gear you would've previously been spending ammo for.

5 Most men, despite lip - service to equality, are reluctant to give up this «natural» order of things in which their advantages are so great; for women, the case is further complicated by the fact that, as Mill astutely pointed out, unlike other oppressed groups or castes, men demand of her not only submission but unqualified affection as well; thus women are often weakened by the internalized demands of the male - dominated society itself, as well as by a plethora of material goods and comforts: the middle - class woman has a great deal more to lose than her chains.

Yeapanis selects both manufactured goods and collected detritus of her life as an artist, a consumer, a cultural participant and a waitress, because these materials represent an acceptance and engagement with what is, rather than a striving towards what should / could be.

They inevitably will require a lot of energy, if for no other reason than that materials for construction (steel, cement, flat glass, aluminum, copper) are hugely energy intensive — with energy intensities an order of magnitude higher than that for most other manufactured goods.

The ultimate problem is that carbon is such a jim - dandy construction material for everything from fuel to food to furniture that once bio-technology is mastered people will be sucking carbon out of the atmosphere for a lot more than just fuel and when it's sucked out for durable goods it doesn't get returned anytime soon.

What I think he pinpoints is that a sense of fairness and human dignity is a more powerful political motivator than the promise of an infinitely expanding supply of material goods (a promise that anyway looks increasingly hollow in the light of what scientists tell us of the likely impacts of unchecked climate change).

Biobased products are defined as goods composed in whole or in significant part of renewable biological ingredients — agricultural, forestry, or marine materials — rather than petroleum.

And although they've successfully recycled more than 6,000 kg of garments since launching the program in 2005, one of their self - imposed issues is that they strive to make durable, long lasting clothing in the first instance, which ironically limits the volume of goods coming back for them to set up meaningful projects with recycled material suppliers.

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