Sentence examples for ecological cost from inspiring English sources

E-books are also searchable, and they're green, or greenish anyway (if you want to give yourself nightmares, look up the ecological cost of building a single Kindle).

From phytoplankton at the base of extensive food chains to potent heat-trapping methane release from permafrost, changes to natural systems will come at great financial and ecological cost.

Her latest causes include campaigning for gun control and against fracking – the extraction of natural gas by cracking open shale rocks below the Earth's surface under high pressure and at great ecological cost.

It's encouraging to see China's basketball legend Yao Ming continuing his effort to educate China's middle class on the ecological cost of its appetite for ivory and rhinoceros horn.

Even feeding livestock and fish has an ecological cost.

How do different agricultural practices and technologies affect water availability and quality? 5. What is the ecological cost of developing new sources of energy? 4. How might land be managed to maximize carbon storage, ecosystem resilience, and other benefits?

Bitter competition for its waters and ecological costs seem unlikely to wane.

And it reflected an attentiveness to the ecological costs of tearing something down and rebuilding from scratch.

Politicians are banning the bottles, and restaurateurs are wiping them off their menus, calling attention to the ecological costs of moving millions of bottles around the world and around the United States — not to mention disposing of all those containers.

By pushing himself further than even the most conscientious recyclers and locavores are usually willing to go, Mr. Beavan hoped to raise awareness both about the ecological costs of overconsumption and about possible solutions to the problem.

"Until All the Fish Are Gone" (editorial, Jan . 21, about the economic and ecological costs of overfishing, did not include nations like the United States, Australia, Iceland, Canada and New Zealand, which have implemented effective policies to end overfishing and rebuild stocks.