Sentences with phrase «wasteful use of resources»

The burning of fossil fuels, wasteful use of resources and excessive consumption all cause our climate to change.

The new BMW 6 Series Convertible embodies an extremely contemporary form of luxury, one not defined by the wasteful use of resources but instead spawned directly from superior technology.

Our conclusion in our report to Congress and the public was sobering: There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress, and there is widespread teaching to the test and gaming of the systems that reflects a wasteful use of resources and leads to inaccurate or inflated measures of performance.

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Instead of continuing to mine resources, fashion them into products, use the products and then throw them away (the «take - make - waste» model), individuals, companies and policy makers are increasingly looking to a less wasteful «make - use - return» model of doing business.

Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

Our extravagant use of the earth's resources is now turning to wasteful exploitation, and our human activities are causing many other species to become extinct.

In the economy of American Protestant values, when one has a talent or a resource, it is wasteful not to use it.

While we can not agree upon a uniform life - style, a conscious and judicious rejection of extravagant and wasteful use of natural resources should be priority and possibility for all.

Stevenson also opposed the burning of large sections of forest by the territory's Indian population along with other wasteful uses of natural resources.

This could lead to duplication of duties and wasteful use of Ghana's resources.

Programs that attempt to use lethal control to eliminate cat populations are inhumane, ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.

True enough, Man has been (and still is) wasteful, arrogant and reckless in its use of the Earth's resources.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

Relying on excessive levels of insulation, airtightness, and window performance rather than considering the use of environmentally sound and more economical supplies of energy is also wasteful of resources and uneconomical (although until recently this has rarely been a problem).

At its essence, this process partitions and replicates computing capacity so that every user who accesses a server or network has use of the resources, a process that is far more efficient than the wasteful client - server model.