Environmental sustainability: environmental impacts are quantified and measures taken to encourage sustainable resource use while minimizing and mitigating negative impacts..
Although many ofthe environmental effects of pottery production have existed for millennia, some of these have been amplified with modern technology and scales of production.
If five farmers eliminate half their use of chemicals, the effect on the environment will be two and one-half times as great as if one farmer goes totally organic.".
The toxicity levels and environmental impact of nickel metal hydride batteries- the type currently used in hybrids- are much lower than batteries like lead acid or nickel cadmium according to one source.
Anther environmental impact that is relatively slow and ongoing and even more difficult to put a price tag on is the decline in the number of other species inhabiting our planet.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency(PROFEPA), the main negative environmental impacts generated by the development of tourism infrastructure on the coasts of Mexico are those mentioned below(Anonymous, 2012).
All of the embodied impacts in that lettuce get lost from the system, which makes it a far bigger environmental impact than the loss of the energy from the fridge.
With the development of a wider view of sustainability, it is critical to remember that from a building lifecycle perspective the environmental impact of any building comes from its energy consumption during the time it is used, the use of renewable energy and the use of sustainable materials.
The economic, social and environmental impact of illicit trafficking in wildlife was also recognized in the Rio+20 outcome document‘The Future We Want' agreed by more than 100 Heads of State on 22 June 2012.
In 1988, a logging company convinced local residents that there would be absolutely no environmental impact from a new method they were trying called"selective logging," taking out a tree here and there rather than clear-cutting a whole area.
But here's a picture of Lincoln Meadow taken after, and you can see that from the perspective of the camera or the human eye, hardly a stick or a tree appears to be out of place, which would confirm the logging company's contention that there's nothing of environmental impact.
Other countries throughout the world have already begun transitioning to HC based systems, with India and China in particular beginning to widely use HC's in domestic refrigerators.[10] As more countries continue to adopt HC's, the efficiency of refrigeration units, from large double or single door refrigerators to small countertop coolers, will rise while the environmental impact will continue to decrease.
長期にわたる人体の健康や環境への影響は未だに適切にテストされていません。
The results of the long term outcomes on the environment or humans have not been explored sufficiently.
ヨーロッパ人の移住による環境への影響は森林資源や炭鉱資源の直接利用だけではない。
The harmful effects on the Australian environment wreaked by European settlers were not limited to the direct use of forest and coal resources.
インフラの開発と消費のペースを上げて世界が前進するにつれて、環境への影響は劇的に増大します。
As the world is moving forwards by increasing the pace of infrastructure development and consumption, the impact on the environment….
Its glasshouses cover over 60 square kilometres and look like a glass city, while their environmental impact is relatively low.
経済と環境経済発展の環境への影響は様々ですが、汚染や生物的多様性の損失等、一般に否定的です。
Economics and the Environment There are mixed effects of economic development on the environment, but generally they have been negative, through pollution and loss of biological diversity.
Today, we're proud to offer carton packages that use low plastic content and have a lower climate impact than virtually any other packaging available alternative.
Other than the obvious ethical issues surrounding the culling of animals for their hides, in recent years studies by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NGOs such as PETA have discovered that the environmental impact caused by our reliance on meat and its by-products is neither sustainable nor ecologically benign.
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