We need to move off an ultimately ruinous economy of consumption to an economy of happiness.
The Indian Sugar Mills Association estimates Indian consumption to be 22 million tons annually.
This helps cut back the power consumption to achieve longer battery life for mobile displays.
It can reduce the power consumption to 1mW and resume from DEVSLP mode in 100ms.
Broken windows would stimulate glaziers, but the shift from consumption to building repairs would necessarily depress others.
But the 2008-09 recession and better fuel economy have lowered consumption to an estimated 135 billion gallons.
To keep from packing on pounds, experts say, limit food consumption to your hours of peak activity.
Research in Europe has linked that acidic beverage consumption to increasing tooth erosion.
"All our activities from consumption to production are unalterably changed, " says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics.
This time last year, independent forecasters expected private UK consumption to go up by 1.1% over the following 12 months.
"And when the power is not needed, it cuts back the consumption to almost nothing, " said the company's Balu Balakrishnan.
Oh happy day for the neo Keynesian and central planner as it has again befallen to government consumption to support activity.
We expect global steel consumption to increase only moderately later this year as the consumption in the U.S., China and Brazil recovers.
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In an attempt to offset the decline in foreign sales, India has been trying to boost its domestic consumption to sustain growth.
Samsung limits the brightness to reduce power consumption to increase battery life.
The government subsidies are aimed at increasing domestic consumption to diversify economic growth that has previously relied heavily on exports and infrastructure spending.
The International Energy Agency lifted its demand forecast for next year and raised its projections for consumption to 2015, citing stronger US growth.
In tandem, governments should switch the burden of taxation from consumption to capital by reducing value-added taxes and increasing taxes on capital and wealth.
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The China National Coal Association expects demand to grow by 4-6% in 2010 and the coal consumption to expand to roughly 3.4 billion tonnes.
As a thought-experiment, let's imagine that technology switches and lifestyle changes manage to halve American energy consumption to 125 kWh per day per person.
To rebalance an economy with excess capacity and to continue growing, China needs domestic consumption to grow much faster than domestic production for many years.
The changes from mass creation and consumption to niche creation and consumption is being driven by technology, creative passion, and changing consumer culture.
Otherwise, he argues, the present will always be held hostage to the future, forgoing its own consumption to further enrich all the generations to come.
The money migrants sent back led their families' consumption to soar.
The site has harnessed the power of collaborative consumption to match available car seats with willing riders, efficiently and in real time, using a mobile app.
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Economists have long argued that China needs to encourage more domestic consumption to shift its economy away from relying on government investment and exports for growth.
As more and more people move their music consumption to services like Pandora and Spotify, the mp3 might just be going the way of the CD.
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But I see this as part of the process of the US ceding consumption to fast growing Asian economies, such as China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
On the agenda is a new five-year economic plan meant to help China wean itself off investment and exports and rely more on consumption to drive growth.
The summit leaders will ask nations that have high drug consumption to do their part to reduce that demand, the Spanish news agency EFE quoted Lewis as saying.
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