Environmental in sentence

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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.

And where environmental sciences have typically tried to understand the world from what we see, a much fuller understanding can be got from what we hear.

So sustainability is quite important for us, which should incorporate social but as well as environmental and economic values.

1986, much, much longer before people started talking about ecological issues and environmental issues, I just started testing the paper tube in order to use this as a building structure.

I was asked to design the building, because the theme of the expo was environmental issues.

It just became big, heavy deforestation and an environmental problem.

They resisted environmental improvement.

Finally, the environmental argument is fascinating, because the environmentalists turned on a dime about 10 years ago.

The environmental movement in America has historically been an anti-city movement from Jefferson on.

And then the American environmental movement has been a classically Arcadian movement.

To become more environmental, we move into the country, we commune with nature, we build suburbs.

For them, environmental contamination may not be the worst sort of devastation.

So when I started my business, I knew two things: All of my items had to be eco-friendly, and 10 to 20 percent of the profits I made went to local and global charities and environmental organizations.

But I want to begin tonight by suggesting that this urban crisis is not only economic or environmental.

And while these two cities have the same population, San Diego has grown six times larger than Tijuana in the last decades, immediately thrusting us to confront the tensions and conflicts between sprawl and density, which are at the center of today's discussion about environmental sustainability.

So when people are looking at the plastic bag, it's likely they're thinking of something like this, which we all know is absolutely terrible, and we should be avoiding at all expenses these kinds of environmental damages.

When we produce materials, we need to extract them from the environment, and we need a whole bunch of environmental impacts.

And I say, "Well, that's very complex, and we'll have to spend four hours talking about what exactly an eco-material means, because everything at some point comes from nature, and it's how you use the material that dictates the environmental impact.

So I like to call that intuitive framework our environmental folklore.

And environmental folklore is a really important thing because we're trying to do the right thing.

But how do we know if we're actually reducing the net environmental impacts that our actions as individuals and as professionals and as a society are actually having on the natural environment?

So the thing about environmental folklore is it tends to be based on our experiences, the things we've heard from other people.

And the thing is that we have to find ways if we're actually going to address sustainability of interlocking those complex systems and making better choices that result in net environmental gains.

Now biodegradability is a material property; it is not a definition of environmental benefits.

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.

So we need to design things like this far better if we're going to start addressing serious environmental problems.

Because functionality defines environmental impact, and I said earlier that the designers always ask me for the eco-materials.

And by sustainability, I mean the really juicy things, like environmental and social issues and corporate governance.

Now clearly, these are environmental and social issues, but that's not all.

But it does illustrate that environmental leadership is compatible with good returns.

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