Sentences with phrase «waste less food if»

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We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

This is because if you put more or less material than needed in your body, it will take some and leave the excess, which means you're wasting food, or if you put in less than it needs, it will utilize it perfectly and get the rest from your fat stores.

Your pup will be healthier and you'll have less waste to clean up in the yard if you feed your dog food that he not only digests but processes efficiently.

If the food is made with lower quality ingredients such as by - products, grain fractions, and chemical preservatives, it will be less digestible and therefore excreted as waste in the form of higher stool volume and excess gas.

If we cut food waste in half and ate less protein - intensive foods and more cereals, vegetables, and fruits, we could reduce humanity's Ecological Footprint 16 % and #movethedate of Overshoot Day back 42 days.

Eating as if the planet matters means eating more healthful foods, wasting less, helping reverse climate change, and reducing the rates of overfishing and overexploitation of soils.

Eating as if the planet matters means eating more healthful foods, wasting less food, helping reverse climate change, and reducing the rates of overfishing and