Recycling tends to consume less energy than making goods from scratch, which helps to curb emissions.
The house was also designed to consume minimal energy and incorporates a number environmentally friendly features, including geothermal heating and cooling and recycled tile floors and countertops.
Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.
With more than a decade of experience, she is passionate about leveraging innovation to transform the way we generate and consume energy to combat climate change.
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One hurdle is that existing optogenetics setups consume too much energy to fit in a reasonable-size device.
But I just see the opportunity particularly as it relates to the way we produce and consume energy.
Motorola counters that last summer it instituted digital set-tops that consume up to 33% less energy than analog boxes.
Their unawareness of how they consume energy is analogous to an individual paying for a grocery cart full of food at the supermarket, but without knowing what is in the cart or how much any individual item in the cart costs.
From the way we consume and produce energy, to how we innovate and invest in advanced energy technologies, there are no simple answers.
The building and construction industry accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, and it is estimated that buildings consume 30% to 40% of global energy.
"We need to push ourselves to rethink domestic appliances entirely, how homes consume energy and how entire communities can pool their resources, " van Heerden said in a statement.
According to the Alert Energy website, the gum is "an energy product for adults who consume caffeine for energy" and is not recommended for children or people sensitive to caffeine.
On the environmental front, Guro Fjellanger, a Liberal lady now in ministerial charge, is to find ways of ensuring that Norwegians gobble up less domestic energy, or at least consume no more than before, in order to cut the emission of greenhouse gases.
His assertion is equivalent to blaming Exxon for sputtering GDP because businesses consume less energy during recessions.
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This aligns perfectly with my passion in leveraging technology innovation to transform the way we generate, manage and consume energy.
For example, if Canadian jobs are being created to export oil to China while Canadians themselves consume some other form of energy, that's still a net increase in employment from tar sands.
They do not wear black rimmed glasses, consume an energy drink every hour and listen to Suzanna Choffel.
The extra energy to operate that bigger sporty house will consume two SUVs compared to your old average home.
SSDs using flash memory consume considerably less energy when they are operating compared to HDDs.
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Typical laser transmitters now consume 100s of femto-Joules to several pico-Joules of energy per bit.
To convert syngas into methane takes three more processes that consume yet more energy.
The more efficient we are in our energy use, the more energy we will use because efficiency makes it cheaper to consume.
This experience led me to wonder how much difference it would make to energy use more generally if we all had more day-to-day, real time knowledge about how much energy we consume as we go about household activities.
These are caused in part by technology advancements that increase complexity across networks, by participatory networks that allow customers to consume and generate power and by the need to integrate renewable forms of energy safely and reliably into the grid.
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Today, creative minds are at work developing electronic systems to track and display the energy use of institutional and individual consumers in ways that could make those users much more conscious both about how much energy they consume and about precisely what they could do to cost-effectively consume less.
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China is consuming a lot of energy, but it has nearly three times as many people to consume it, too.
In fact, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), nearly one third of teenagers consume energy drinks.
As these people, and generations to come, strive for a more comfortable lifestyle, they will consume vast amounts of energy.
But celebrations, O'Donnell added, are also "biologically costly" since they consume energy that could have been spent in the game and expose players to risk.
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