Sentence examples for based on environmental concerns from inspiring English sources

"People are making purchasing decisions based on environmental concerns," said Gerald Prolman, the founder of OrganicBouquet.com, an online organic florist.

Producers counter that too many other areas are effectively off limits, because of seasonal restrictions based on environmental concerns, like the mating season of endangered birds.

But documents recently made public as part of a legal challenge based on environmental concerns suggested that the company hoped to build a facility far larger than its initial application described.

Decisions are made based on environmental concerns, while free of traffic city centres become widespread.

Ethanol use as a fuel additive or directly as a fuel source has grown in popularity due to governmental regulations and in some cases economic incentives based on environmental concerns as well as a desire to reduce oil dependency.

Local activists in Lillehammer successfully forced the country's Olympic Organizing Committee (OOC) to make changes based on environmental concerns.

And to underscore the message that their opposition was based on environmental protection and not religious differences or concerns about property values, a member looped a basketful of green and blue ribbons into pins, taking a page from the red ribbons of AIDS activism and the pink ones of breast cancer awareness.

Public opinion towards aviation generally is worsening, based on increasing environmental concerns relating to emissions and noise, and private flying has been criticised by respondents to a government consultation on aircraft noise as a frivolous or selfish activity.

Much disagreement has arisen regarding the scientific bases of environmental concerns and the question of how to combine the goals of environmental protection and development.

In 2000, Sudan became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to switch to unleaded gas, a decision based as much on economic concerns as on environmental concerns.

But even in that case, the state Fish and Game Commission based its decision more on an ethical aversion to genetically modified pets than on environmental concerns.