Sentences with phrase «transported thousands of miles»

Perhaps the biggest pathway through which carbon taxes could cut greenhouse gas emissions from shipping would be by altering the cost equation between distant imports that must be transported thousands of miles, and domestically produced goods.

After the hell of a fighting ring, he has reached a heaven of sorts: saved by a series of unlikely breaks, transported thousands of miles, along with other dogs rescued with him, by devoted strangers, and now nurtured by Nuccio, her roommate, Danielle White, and their three other dogs.

After all, it's perfectly legal to dig up coal, transport it thousands of miles by rail and ship, and burn it for electricity.

Not exact matches

Once processed, artificial baby milk has to be transported sometimes thousands of miles to the consumer.

Laskin says the alkaloids can be transported hundreds or even thousands of miles and play an important role in cycling nitrogen through ecosystems, but also have the potential to be quite harmful.

Having logged hundreds of thousands of miles transporting dogs every other week with the arduous process of driving from New Hampshire to Alabama and other Southern states, their dedication has shown to be unwavering.

Not a conventional rescue Hope saves «death row» dogs by working with other rescues and their 2 rescue vans travel thousands of miles transporting dogs to other rescues as well as their own.

Food quality has declined and even if it is grown naturally, food is often transported hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles away from its origin.

For millions of years, great global winds known as Aeolian winds have transported sand and dust from land, across thousands of miles of Ocean.

What happens when we can't rely on clothes, food, and other consumer goods being made thousands of miles away and transported here using fossil fuels?

[M] any people have latched onto the local - food movement, billing themselves «locavores,» as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large - scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

These technologies could be used to produce «zero emissions» transport airships with the ability to carry hundreds of tons of cargo or people over distances of hundreds or even thousands of miles.

These offer the capability of transporting you into a 3 - D world, which could even include a home that's for sale thousands of miles from where you are.