Sentences with phrase «used on consumption»

Canadian simply with assets are borrowing vast sums of cash to be used on consumption.

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Raising awareness in your business to motivate people to switch off all appliances when not in use could save 10 % -20 % on your annual consumption and charges.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

The problem: The Fed doesn't use CPI to judge its performance, but relies on the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) measure instead.

This tax is based on consumption — use less, pay less,» wrote one CEO.

On November 8, another four states voted in favor of outright marijuana legalization: California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts all voted in favor of legalized use, sale, and consumption of recreational marijuana.

Proposition 64 legalized the recreational use of marijuana for adults aged 21 years or older, permitting smoking in a private home or at a business licensed for on - site marijuana consumption.

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

Over at Digiconomist, a Bitcoin blog and analysis site, owner Alex de Vries reported that the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, an measure of the energy used to mine the digital currency every year, was up to 32.36 terawatt - hours on December 6.

Why can't they increase their consumption and investment levels rather than relying on the U.S. economy to buy their consumer goods and capital goods for surplus dollars that have no better use than to accumulate in the world's central banking system as excess reserves?

So, using their numbers above, for each barrel shipped on KXL, you'd have somewhere between 0.08 and 0.78 barrels of increase in total consumption, with between 0.22 and 0.92 barrels of oil which would have been produced elsewhere being substituted - for by oil sands production.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

To make insect consumption more palatable, the new trend focuses on using insects to create alternative ingredients.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

Motion graphic artist Andreas Tanner uses his compelling infographics to educate viewers on all aspects of plastic production, consumption, and breakdown.

So while most mortgage money was used to bid up the price of home ownership, about a quarter of new lending was reported to be spent on consumption goods.

The data layer uses the distributed ledger + distributed computing technology to realize the detailed record of the assets issue, consumption, exchange and so on, which makes the digital currencies more transparent, compatible, traceable and no fault - tolerance.

Andrew comments that the seed companies in England don't even mention the nutritional values of the grains intended for human consumption on the product sheets, though it is listed on the product sheets for grains intended for use as animal feed.

The Webinar included presentations on: Flexible Packaging Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission Benefits, presented by Jeff Wooster, The Dow Chemical Company; Options for Managing Flexible Packaging End of Life, presented by Dr. Ron Cotterman, Sealed Air Corporation; and an Overview on How to Use the Flexible Packaging Sustainability Advantages Toolkit, presented by Shanna Moore, DuPont Company.

Cutting back on your carbohydrate consumption means that your body can stop using glucose for energy.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

We chose to model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22

Compost also plays a key role for soil management, but unlike in Biodynamics, Nature Farming typically does not utilize animals, it does not put the same emphasis on crops grown for animal consumption, and avoids the use of animal manure and waste products as soil amendments.

These ingredients are all gluten - free and safe for consumption on a gluten - free diet, but they are not the only ingredients used.

That's a huge shortfall that needs to be met with a nutritional source that doesn't add to fossil fuel, fertilizer or pesticide use or place excessive demands on freshwater consumption.

In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.

Hussmann explains that refrigeration systems, HVAC and lighting are responsible for as much as 90 percent of the energy used in a store, and refrigeration systems can be as much as 60 percent of that total — giving an industry that operates on tight margins greater incentive to reduce energy consumption.

I always assumed it was from excessive sugar consumption, but recently I think it was brought on by extended antibiotic use.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

The company explained that they have used an environment - friendly design for their plant, which focuses on minimising resource wastage and energy consumption.

«We created flexible food packaging that looks, feels and has the same properties as conventional plastics on one hand, but on the other hand — post consumption — degrades biologically and becomes a fertilizer that can be used to fertilize the soil again.

The National Food Waste Summit brought together those with an interest in reducing food waste across the food supply and consumption chain, with the aim of stimulating ideas on how we can rethink food waste prevention, or use wasted food for other purposes.

Given that the FLW Standard is focused on material no longer in the food supply chain, food that is transferred from one part of the food supply chain to another but is still used for human consumption is outside the scope of the FLW Standard.

In addition to the information found in this section of our website on alcohol responsibility, please also visit our global industry association, the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, whose mission is to reduce the harmful use of alcohol and promote moderate, responsible consumption: responsibledrinking.org.

Personally, I do believe that the consumption of turmeric could only benefit my health, that is why I drink the Golden Milk and use the Turmeric Paste on a daily basis.

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.

Since I'm trying to cut back on my soy consumption, what do you think of potentially using mashed banana (s) for egg substitution?

Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.

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.

The family had stopped using herbicides on the farm in the mid-1970s, and in the early 1980s, Albert replaced tilling fields, used to grow silage, with a no - till method of planting, to prevent soil erosion and reduce fuel consumption.

Comparing different policy scenarios to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods in UK: impact on cardiovascular disease mortality using a modelling approach

In terms of energy consumption, inputs used on farm and farmers» participation, the collaborative effort towards crop improvement under low - input conditions was much more efficient in terms of energy use (see table below).

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

«This means that taking into account the way the water use contributes to local water scarcity, the water footprint of producing 1 L of milk on these farms had the equivalent impact as the direct consumption of only 1.9 L of water.

- Increase investment in research and development of plant - based foods and clean meat; - Clarify that food producers can use compound names such as «soy milk» and other descriptors on food labels; - Include commonsense measures to reform checkoff programs; and - Incentivize the production and consumption of specialty crops and pulses.

We've already stopped using or drastically reduced our consumption of many things on your list, but I think I'm going to try to switch to cloth hankies.

In The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar consumption; and much more.

The report outlines how some sports and all energy drink products are being misused, discusses their ingredients, and provides guidance on their appropriate use, as in the case of sports drinks, and on how to decrease or eliminate consumption by children and adolescents, in the case of energy drinks.

None of the adolescents surveyed mentioned potential problems referable to the consumption of these beverages, and they did not distinguish use on the basis of the degree of athletic participation.»

There are various products that can be used to make vegetation unpalatable to woodchucks, but not all are meant to be used on food grown for human consumption.