But for decades, it was widely accepted that in a previous episode, when the Laurentide Ice Sheet peaked approximately 150,000 years ago, it had a pretty shallow footprint, amounting to a slow loss of several meters from current levels over tens of thousands of years, Krantz says.
However, even with a small physical footprint, the amount of microphones makes it difficult to employ this solution in applications where space is limited, such as hearing aids or mobile phones.
Europe's ecological "footprint," the amount of the Earth's capacity that a population consumes, is about half that of the United States, for the same standard of living.
The blue-chip galleries that have opened in the last year are comparative behemoths, with footprints (the amount of ground a building takes up) of a size that would be impossible elsewhere in Manhattan.
As we consider water as the new paradigm, we probably should begin not at the top of the user pyramid, but at the bottom, with a better calculation of our own water footprint, a measure of the amount used to produce each of the goods and services we use, directly and indirectly.
Your ecological footprint is the total amount of carbon dioxide that you produce in life by using energy, especially fossil fuel, through transportation, use of electricity, consumption of certain food that require transportation and industrial fertilizers, waste and pollution.
There are only three ways of reducing our carbon footprint: reduce the amount each person consumes, reduce the number of people, or make each unit of growth less carbon-intensive.
For travelers, becoming carbon neutral involves calculating their "carbon footprint," the approximate amount of carbon dioxide produced on flights, road trips or when they otherwise burn fossil fuels, and then buying "offsets" — donating money for projects that promise to produce energy without burning fossil fuels or otherwise reduce the production of greenhouse gases.
Grey water footprint is the amount of fresh water required to assimilate pollutants to meet specific water quality standards.
If you happen to know the box's footprint, or the amount of area it takes up on the floor, that's the result of multiplying the length and width together.
