Having no movement whatsoever I control an environmental system (called "Possum") solely by whistling into a microphone.
There is Space Air's environmental control system that keeps household air fresh and at the right temperature.
Apple has withdrawn all its laptop and desktop computers from the EPEAT environmental rating system, including older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models.
Now the U.S. Green Building Council has a pilot project to award credits under its LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system for the use of materials that have EPDs.
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This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RadNet system is designed to protect the public by notifying scientists, in near real time, of elevated levels of radiation so they can determine whether protective action is required.
This precipitous decline in the quantity of Earth science and applications observations from space undertaken by the United States reinforces the conclusion in the decadal survey and its predecessor, the 2005 interim report (NRC, 2005), which declared that the U.S. system of environmental satellites is at risk of collapse.
Mr. KEVIN NEWMAN (Control System Engineer, Environmental Protection Agency): We're driving on stored energy now.
Health Commissioner Nirav Shah also said he met with researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania within the past two weeks.
Under the new proposals, the EU will shift from the current bargaining over quotas - a system often attacked by environmental groups - to fishing based on "maximum sustainable yield" (MSY).
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There is an environmental problem in terms of the food system we have.
The global food system drivers interact with local environmental factors to create a wide variation in obesity prevalence between populations.
Many farmers using these seeds have even been able to implement a "no-till" system, which offers tremendous environmental benefits by preventing soil erosion, keeping farm water and chemical run-off out of local watersheds and releasing less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
"Certainly from the EU side, what we want to see is a system where we have the highest environmental integrity that is possible, " he told BBC News.
Because, under Germany's system of proportional representation, the Greens got 47 parliamentary seats, but under France's majority-voting system its Greens, the main environmental party, got a mere half-dozen.
The problem is that the Clinton Pentagon actually did produce a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement for an Alaskan missile defense system -- albeit one far larger (intended to house up to 100 interceptors) than the modest test facility President Bush proposes to build (involving only 5 interceptor silos).
This means building a flexible education system where children practice solving social and environmental challenges.
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However, Mr Coates Smith believes that the environmental advantages and the congestion beating nature of the system will make it a success.
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Some environmental critics are less than impressed with the new system.
Shell Oil Vice President Paul Goodfellow said this is the first time the company and environmental groups have reached agreement to create an entire system for reducing the effects of shale drilling.
In economic terms, either system would dwarf the impact of previous big environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is developing a reporting system where the schools themselves provide information on their environmental commitment.
In some areas the new system could even make changes harder, most notably in environmental law.
Under his leadership, the city has announced significant environmental initiatives, as well as substantial reforms of the city school system.
Priority environmental issues were beach erosion and a lack of a garbage collection system and designated area for garbage disposal.
Scottish Water said tighter environmental regulations had reduced the amount of waste it could put into the system and it had been working to deal with issue.
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Yet, rather than order the older plants to comply with new environmental standards, Mr Bush instead worked with industrial leaders to arrange a system by which the plants' owners are supposed to take part in the plan voluntarily.
Levels of phosphates in fresh waterways can be much higher than normal because of contamination from municipal and domestic wastewater, whether you're hooked up to a sewer or have a septic system, says Helen Suh MacIntosh, an associate professor in environmental health at Harvard University.
They urge the government to stop "dithering" over energy policy, though, and to ensure there is a system to rebut what "scare stories" may arise over the environmental impacts of shale gas.
How do we make CSR and sustainability a whole system approach that is above and beyond a discrete set of social or environmental initiatives?
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