Sentences with phrase «trees than it cuts»

In fact, the paper industry plants more trees than it cuts down.

People don't always realize that we're more about growing trees than cutting them down.

Not exact matches

When they cut trees faster than the timber stock can replenish itself, they do so «out of tragic compulsion» (Meyers, 114).

Campaigners have strongly opposed the construction work for the # 55.7 billion rail scheme, including the cutting down of more than 500 trees in the borough.

As for gifts for my kids, we're trying to give them experiences more than gifts this year (cutting down a tree together, lighting the menorah, meals with friends).

The amended plan on the table Monday reduced the size of the fitness center, thus cutting parking spaces and sparing more than 60 trees that were close to a buffer zone between the hospital and the preserve.

Rather than decorating cookies, some organizers plan to use Christmas - tree cookie - cutters on wheat bread, iced with low - fat cream cheese and decorated with sliced veggies such as shredded carrots, mini-broccoli or cut up red peppers.

Deforestation adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of all cars and trucks on the world's roads... and over 1 billion trees are cut down each year to produce disposable diapers.

As a result, more than 18 billion disposable diapers end up in our landfills every year - equalling 80,000 pounds of plastic tossed and 200,000 trees cut down a year.

This year, we decided that rather than buy our tree at a local lot, it was time to create a new tradition and make the trip out to the local cut it yourself Christmas tree farm.

The second microburst, with winds gusting to 80 miles per hour, was confirmed to have cut a path of destruction and downed trees for more than 250 yards in North Salem, near the Putnam border.

The book recommends that switch be cut from a willow tree and be no longer than 12 inches in length and 8 cm in diameter.

She also said that citizens should realize that whether they are cutting down trees or burning fossil fuels, they are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than plants can remove.

No one even knows how many trees have perished so far, although reports by Italy's farm cooperative Coldiretti estimate that more than one million of Puglia's 60 million olive trees are infected by the bacterium, either dying on their own or cut down and burned by authorities, under pressure to do something from national and European leaders who fear the bacteria could wipe out olive groves across the continent and infect almond and cherry trees, too.

To do so, they must gather extra firewood (more than that they would need just for cooking), which spurs both bigger the cutting down of trees as well as times when such critical safety practices have to be skipped due to a lack of resources.

Satellites, meanwhile, reveal what look like blisters, as each year more than 1,000 square kilometres of trees are burnt or cut.

These panels are portable, so if trees grow and block an area that was formerly sunny, you won't have to cut them down to keep your solar charge, and they're up to 40 percent more efficient than stationary rooftop solar panels.

So, TREE has joined with more than a dozen grassroots organizations that support strong public schools across Tennessee to demand accountability from the TDOE in the wake of confusion created by the latest release of «quick scores» and associated raw «cut scores» from recent TCAP tests.

Barkskins is nothing less than a sylvan Moby - Dick replete with ardently exacting details about tree cutting from Canada and Maine to Michigan, California, and New Zealand, with dramatic cross-cultural relationships and with the peculiar madness catalyzed by nature's glory.

As I'll point out again, if wholesale / retail elements collapse to 10 % of the gross in an ebook world, rather than 60 % is dead trees - then there is 50 % of the gross that can be apportioned to author / price cuts / etc.

That fruit — the dividends — is what I'll eventually live off of, choosing to pluck the fruit and leave the branches intact rather than cutting the branches, possibly slowly killing the tree.

Lastly, when you utilize an urban salvaged tree that had to come down for some reason other than turning it into lumber, we offset the need to cut down trees out of our natural forests to create these same end products.

Categories include vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling stock; articles of iron or steel; fish, tools, implements, cutlery, and flatware of base metal; trees, plants, bulbs, roots, cut flowers and ornamental foliage; and photographic and cinematographic goods to name a few.

2008 Heralded as the new black, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Heralded as the new black, South London Gallery, London, UK Something Vague, St Gallen Kunstverein, Switzerland, CH Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US And it came to life, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, PT Basquiat, STORE Gallery, London, UK 2007 GHOSTWRITER SUBTEXT (TOWARDS A SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PLAUSIBLE INTERROBANG), Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP More than the weight of your shadow, DAIWA Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, JP Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US Short cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, AT The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead (with Aurélien Froment), STORE, London, UK 2006 Ryan Gander, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier Container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami, US Didactease, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USCinema Verso, Whitechapel East Wing, London, UK Spencer, forget about good, Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, CH Is This Guilt In You Too --(The study of a car in a field), MUMOK, Vienna, AT Your clumsiness is the next man's stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau, MAMbo, GAM, Bologna, IT

For the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern she cut larger - than - life cactuses out of huge trees last summer in the Jura Mountains using a chainsaw.

More specifically, that they'll be planting more trees than the ones being cut down.

This is a different pattern than Sicily, which was deforested during the Bronze Age just by cutting the trees down.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

As you've heard, in its first twenty years, Kenyans planted millions of fast - growing trees... allowing people to cut them, too, for fuel or for building, trying to plant more than they cut.

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Hughes has been on the cutting edge of using the data from tree rings in the broader field of climate research; he's also been targeted by climate contrarians for more than 20 years.

So even if that tree hadn't been cut down, it would be less than 5,000 years old today.

As a result of the build - up of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — due to our burning of fossil fuels, cutting down trees and other activities — global average temperature is now changing at a faster rate than at least over the past 1,000 years.

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.

Many of the world's nations are banking on a scheme called REDD which puts a price on trees so they're more valuable standing than cut down.

Editor's Note: For the report and supplementary materials, please go to https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/government-industry-data-suggest-30-percent-wood-used-indonesias-industrial-forest-sector-comes-unreported-illegal-sources/ WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing -LSB-...]

Driving to a local tree farm, cutting your tree from the ground, and bringing it home requires less carbon emissions than having your tree shipped from the Pacific Northwest — and it can be fun!

Hemp has a higher cellulose level than wood, advocates argue, and therefore the plant could be used for paper to avoid cutting down trees.

In addition, within the area from all dead trees with a diameter not less than 4 cm intervals, saw cuts from trunks at a height of 10 cm were taken to determine their life interval.

Unfortunately, only half the logging companies in Cameroon are licensed, and among these companies, violations such as felling trees smaller than the legal size and cutting outside concession boundaries are common.

Thus the first year in a slab cut from a tree found opportunisticaly sticking out of a river bank will be much greater than age 0 for the tree.

Burning wood may be close to carbon neutral in some situations, such as where it is clear that cut trees are replaced with the same trees, one for one; but in others it can emit even more carbon than coal.

«They would tear everything down, dig up the cemetery, blow up the church and cut down all the trees,» said Christian Huschga, a screenwriter and father of two who has lived in Atterwasch for more than 30 years.

Though it may entail a little more maintenance, in choosing to integrate the existing trees into the design, rather than cutting them down to make more square footage, the house's inhabitants gain an advantage of shade and enjoyment for years to come — a simple but smart strategy.

Perhaps one day in the distant future we'll be able to go 3D - print an apple tree, or build an internet - connected modular maple tree from a kit, or have access to hyper - trees that grow at 10X the normal rate, but until that day arrives (and probably for long after), we'll need to keep buying young trees, planting seeds, and taking cuttings the old - fashioned way, which is actually much simpler and cheaper than any tech solution to anything.

As a result, he says that cutting down trees could worsen climate change to a larger degree than was previously thought, and that protecting them, and planting new ones, should be one of our primary climate mitigation measures.

There's a lot more at stake than broken limbs when we cut down trees.

I'm a treehugger and treeclimber and treeplanter from way back, and have found that the act of planting a tree is somewhat revolutionary one, as a tree is something that can not be produced in any other manner than through those supplied by nature (planting a seed or rooting a cutting).

The group of activists who took action today also planted trees in front of a clearing where Kinder Morgan had been cutting them down — a next step in construction to make way for the company's pipeline, which threatens more than 1,000 watercourses.

This was OK, the Appeals Court said, given that «any diminution in market value arising from the wrongful cutting was of less importance than was the destruction of the special value that the land and its stand of mature oak trees held for Glavin.»