Sentences with phrase «think of the carbon footprint»

When you think of a product, think of how much space in landfill it takes up, and think of the carbon footprint it has in its manufacturing, use, and disposal.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Reading breathless media reports about CO2 «pollution» and about minimizing our carbon footprints, one might think that the earth can not have too little CO2, as Simpson thought one couldn't be too thin — a view which was also overstated, as we have seen from the sad effects of anorexia in so many young women.

Part of it may be a new environmental consciousness; if you really want to lower your carbon footprint, forget about buying a Prius and think instead about having just one kid, says New York Times environment blogger Andrew Revkin.

No matter what you think about the octuplets and their carbon footprint, I find these images of the mother incredible.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

Indeed, given his very high profile remarks questioning climate change and the science upon which it is based, I think we can safely assume he doesn't lose any sleep over his consumption habits or the size of his carbon footprint.

It's now commonplace to talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's climate.

We are constantly thinking of other ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

After thinking about how people use up resources (e.g., riding in a car instead of walking or biking to school), teams describe ways that people contribute to a larger carbon footprint.

One task saw the pupils design and build their own racing car powered by clean energy, which got them thinking about alternative fuel sources and ways of reducing their carbon footprint.

They're actually playing out the tradition that was started by the 19th - century landscape painters, [placing] the observer in a position of domination and control of nature, without much thought to the carbon footprint or any of the consequences.»

The carbon footprint of travel is not three or four times as big as we thought; we are just taking our carbon with us.

A new study, The carbon footprint of global tourism, is causing a stir, with news sources writing headlines like Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than thought, study says or Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estimated.

Those processes and practices by Think Eco-Logical are intended to help get data centers and IT businesses through the down economy by saving them money, as well as help the global climate crisis by shrinking the giant carbon footprint of the industry.

I only found out about Ecotricity today, and am shocked (though I shouldn't be) that what's happening here clearly demonstrates that «global warming» can't be the real issue, or corporations like EDF would realise that what they are doing ultimately (when actual costs are counted), is increasing their carbon footprint (just think of all the people, documents, transportation that are needed over the course of a court - case).

(Inside Science)-- New research reveals that the carbon footprint of global tourism is much larger than previously thought, after accounting for all aspects of travel, including staying in hotels and shopping.

Barter economies, limiting carbon footprints, self - discipline («I will NOT buy that»), and critical thinking aren't new, just beyond the reach of many due to brainwashing by cultural norms... let's change that!

I think solar is going to become an even more viable option and will help reduce some of our carbon footprints.

Think of the resulting reduction in the government's carbon footprint — less travel, less paper, less electricity,....

I mean who wants to read about a boring, untruthful, «sex - crazed poodle» who's carbon footprint is so large someone might think he's the cause of global warming all by himself?

As I wrote in my recent post about carbon footprints not being the most important thing in the world, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicles of late.

There are many, (like me) who think that wood has the lowest carbon footprint of any building material, actually sequestering carbon rather than emitting it.

These days more and more music artists are thinking about their «carbon footprint», so it was only a matter of time before a fully fledged eco-studio became a reality.»

I like to think that demand for squash will continue to grow as people move toward seasonal eating, realizing that eating locally - farmed squash in November has a much smaller carbon footprint than importing refrigerated heads of Romaine from California greenhouses.

Between that and finding a gas station in the middle of the night in the middle of Kansas, there isn't always a lot of time to think about your carbon footprint, but van rental agency Bandago (say it with us: Band - Ah - Go) is here to help.

Before the partisan framing sets in, the Tyee Solutions Society thought it might be useful to stand back and consider just what the Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far — what's been learned from its successes and lapses, what informed observers say deserves rethinking and what the rival suitors for our support in the coming election have revealed about which elements of the pioneering plan to zero out B.C.'s carbon footprint they may scrap or enhance.

TreeHugger and Planet Green have looked at the carbon footprint of orange juice before, (Matthew looked at the issue in Think Bottled Water is Bad, Could Bottled Orange Juice Be Even Worse?)

Moreover, they're doing if from a point of a much lower carbon footprint than the U.S. and a much greater sense of RESPONSIBILITY while the average American is still whining about his rights but never thinks about responsibility, when the average American talks about God and morality but doesn't have any sense of social responsibility, only selfishness (when will the world end?

However, he added: «Overall, the carbon footprint of air - freighting is greater to such a large degree than land transport that we think there is a pretty strong case for looking at a ban very seriously.»

says you'll be forced to: Address living well without modern so - called conveniences; think about «which expenses actually make me happy and improve my family's quality of life» and which ones «just eat away at my time and money»; and, importantly (it is Climate Week, even though really every week is climate week, recognized or not), start really thinking about what your carbon footprint is really like.

My best guess is that the poster's carbon footprint is about 2 / 3rds of what he thought.

They will also have the opportunity to look at climate change and GHG from a unique angle: they will discover that carbon emissions make up the largest component of the Ecological Footprint (globally and in most countries), and will start thinking of carbon emissions in relation to the area of forestland required to absorb them.