Err, yes, resource efficiency is an important thing about running a business.
But nowhere in the United States is the immediate need to tackle resource efficiency more evident than in the island state of Hawaii.
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Through radical resource efficiency, sustainable buildings are less harmful to the environment, more profitable for the owner and deliver demonstrably superior services to occupants.
Resource efficiency is a real competitiveness issue for European companies.
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The EU Climate Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said climate policies would cut local pollution, reduce dependency on fossil fuel imports, improve resource efficiency, save money on energy and even make people fitter if they left their cars at home and cycled to work.
If Japan had regained its internal energy--say, through remarkable technologies in resource recovery and efficiency, beyond the celebrated hybrid auto engines--the world's number two economy could be zigging while so many others are zagging.
In the euphoria over the newly abundant fossil fuels, it would be easy to forget that the most economically beneficial energy resource is still energy efficiency.
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In spite of the major changes required to move IT functions to the cloud, companies are seeing the move as an advantage in terms of efficiency and resource savings.
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It often increases it as the efficiency gains and resource savings get quickly re-purposed to other uses.
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Increased efficiency results from the standardization, better resource allocation and utilization, simplified and automated provisioning processes, and overall operational efficiency improvements in the automation of all aspects of IT management.
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The McKinsey Global Institute has found, for example, that up to 30% of global resource demand in 2030 could be met simply by efficiency improvements.
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The massive shale gas resource in America, coupled with the high-efficiency and low emissions of modern gas power plants, gives us a handy solution to future power needs.
Power companies in Western U.S. states have begun listing energy-efficiency as a central part of their long-term resource portfolio strategies.
In fact, there is a difference of more than 300% between the highest cost-per-win on both respective levels, a statistic that gives significant relevancy to the efficiency of the coaches who are successful at the lower resource level.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
Budget constraints: A Resource Restriction Agreement caps spending on racing operations for all Formula One teams, making efficiency and operational improvements imperative.
Productivity and efficiency are the same thing: productivity is the measure of how efficiently we use a resource.
Energy conservation, efficiency, savings--whatever you want to call it is--is a very large resource in itself.
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