Sentences with phrase «use less land»

Says Zev Paiss, COO of Abraham Paiss & Associates, Inc., a marketing and communications company catering to sustainable businesses, «Because most of these neighborhoods are tightly clustered and built with the oversight of the residents, they use less land and use it more efficiently.»

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson — who testified about the partnership before Congress — said the idea is that these goals would wind up emphasizing developments that use less land and energy, provide affordable housing to people of all income and stages of life, make it easier for people to get to their destinations on foot, bike or public transit and direct growth to developed areas.

Intensifying many human activities — particularly farming, energy extraction, forestry, and settlement — so that they use less land and interfere less with the natural world is the key to decoupling human development from environmental impacts.

Use less land.

More productive forms of agriculture use less land, allowing forests to regrow in the United States, Poland, and Vietnam.

The bottom line is that: Intensifying many human activities — particularly farming, energy extraction, forestry, and settlement — so that they use less land and interfere... Continue reading →

By farming insects, we could get more meat from the same amount of grain, use less land for agriculture and cut pollution.

Eco-modernism is about finding new technologies and financing models that allow humans to prosper while using less land, water, fuel, and energy and interfering less with the natural world.

Rosmann says it is an advantage for them using less land while still making a living.

«We are also committed to supporting the innovations of agricultural bioengineering that allow farmers to grow more using less land, less energy and fewer pesticides.»

The bottom line is that Asia must grow more food using less land, water, and labor, while overcoming new challenges from climate change.»

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

Sixty percent of the world's population will likely live in cities by the year 2030, so models like Aerofarms that grow food for urbanites using less land and less transportation are only going to become more important.

FT: Vertical farming uses less land area and comparatively less water than conventional farming.

Not exact matches

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

Phone surveys used to be the standard in the industry back when all customers had land lines, but in the era of the cell phone and do - not - call list, it's less reliable.

Congestion alters land - use decisions and makes downtown office buildings less desirable than suburban locations.

Maybe if you geniuses spent more time using the internet to, let's say, google «Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal», and less time playing in jeebus fairy - land make - believe land, you wouldn't be messing up the country so bad.

ddeevviinn, you said; «It is in this land of reality that 90 % (in actuality a little less, but for sake of argument we'll use this figure) of the population has determined that the Judeo - Christian God revealed in the biblical literature is valid.»

It is in this land of reality that 90 % (in actuality a little less, but for sake of argument we'll use this figure) of the population has determined that the Judeo - Christian God revealed in the biblical literature is valid.

On occasion the phrase was used to refer simply to the land of the Bible — that is, to the land the Israelites returned to from Egypt — but in all of Christian literature before the sixth century it occurs less than a dozen times, and usually as a phrase to reject.

Folks, Christ used him greatly in a land (Seattle) where people could care less about the Lord.

This leaves the farmer with the choice to remove and replant, or use valuable land and resources to keep the less productive tree around.

«Palm oil is already widely used in food manufacture and for good reason; oil palms are highly efficient oil producers requiring ten times less land than other oil - producing crops.

He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

The mathematics prove the point: the researchers found that a piece of land that could produce 100 g of plant - based protein would be capable of producing far less animal - based protein — the same plot used for laying hens, chickens to eat, dairy products, pork and beef would respectively produce only 60 g, 50 g, 25 g and 4 g of protein.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

We generally try to eat using less salt in my house because my son has one (strange looking, functional) kidney, and we live in the land of MSG (China)... so, I will definitely keep this substitute in mind!

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

It uses about 75 % less water, generates about 87 % fewer greenhouse gases, and requires around 95 % less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

According to the company, making the plant - based burger uses 99 percent less land, 85 percent less water, and emits 89 percent less greenhouse gas than traditional beef production.

With Paul Scholes nearing the end of his career and Micheal Carrick being used in a less attacking role Sir Alex Ferguson has been linked with moves for a number of possible playmaker targets which included a failed attempt to land Lucas Moura, who subsequently joined PSG, and constant speculation about a possible bid for Inter Milan's Wesley Sneijder.

Wilshere isn't ready for the CAM role and Ox needs to make better use of his dribbles land be less predictable.

There are many debates as to whether synthetic fibers are any better than disposables, but in the end if you do choose to use microfiber, you will still be keeping one less diaper out of the land fill, and that is worth it to me.

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

While Americans are far from going hungry, we are actually using less and less of our farm land and people refuse to become farmers under this system, so I would argue the US is likely producing less food and especially the food people want to eat than we would otherwise.

«It's clear that we need more tools to empower everyday residents in the land use process, not less,» Chin said in a statement.

But a legally - binding agreement signed on that same day by the council's Land Use Committee provides much less specific restrictions, preserving less than two - thirds of the ground floor for retail use with no specific language about food at aUse Committee provides much less specific restrictions, preserving less than two - thirds of the ground floor for retail use with no specific language about food at ause with no specific language about food at all.

The paper doesn't provide policy recommendations, but Williams notes that areas that are currently less developed, like the Midwest, might consider land - use plans that preserve «habitat connectivity» so species can move.

Bee populations change every year because when crops are more valuable, farmers will use more land for growing crops, but when crops are less valuable, farmers will leave more land to its natural state, Whitworth said.

«However, I need to say that we are not including indirect land - use change, and [have] intentionally restricted our analysis to make our findings less uncertain,» he said.

But whether biofuels emit more or less CO2 than gasoline depends on what the land they were grown on was previously used for, both studies show.

The latter process used much less water, for example, and it allowed farmers to diversify their crops and use their land to plant other crops as well.

In Tucson's historic Armory Park neighborhood, John Wesley Miller is constructing a community of 99 solar - powered Mission - style houses that use up to 80 percent less energy than the surrounding houses yet sell in the low $ 200,000 s. Brian Bombeck, president of the Sacramento Land division of U.S. Home, is overseeing a grand plan to install solar roofs on nearly half the 1,880 houses in a development near the California state capital.

To stabilize and reverse the loss of biodiversity, we have to reduce our ecological footprint; we have to produce more wisely and consume more wisely, using less energy and less land and less water.»

Using JAMSTEC's supercomputer, the Earth Simulator, the research team recreated cold wave forecasts for two cases: 1) when there is more frequent observation and more data available than usual (as in 2015) and 2) a «normal» year with less data collection from land - based stations and no additional research resources available.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».