From the traditional redoubts of the working rich and near-rich in the Manhasset and Port Washington areas to the Gold Coast mansions and McMansions in the woodsy enclaves surrounding Locust Valley to the voraciously land-consuming second-home tracts of the Hamptons, a high-end hiatus has set in.
Another very interesting result, especially for the local experts, was the awareness rising effect of how land-consuming renewable energy production is "in scale" on a 2D cardboard of A0 size, but also how strongly the required amounts of land use among the renewable energy sources differ.
We conclude that most areas currently used for energy production, and in particular for bioenergy – which is, as repeatedly stated, a land-consuming form of renewable energy production – were not selected to meet specific pre-defined objectives concerning their location, quantity, and spatial arrangement.
Development is consuming land so rapidly on the island that planners and preservationists say unprotected open land could be all but gone in 5 to 10 years.
Surely the arrival of large numbers of immigrants, who will soon begin consuming land, fuel and other resources at gargantuan American levels, is an environmental issue.
In addition to the fact that only a small percentage of polar bears — fewer than 30 individual polar bears out of populations that typically number 900 to 1200 — are actually consuming land-based foods, Rode and her colleagues found that in the regions where terrestrial feeding by polar bears has been documented, polar bears' health and rate of survival have declined.
Some have suggested that polar bears will adapt to an ice-free Arctic by consuming land-based foods such as bird eggs, rodents, berries and vegetation, as well as fish -- essentially shifting to the diet of omnivorous brown bears.
"We are consuming more land per person than at any time, in the most wasteful way," said Ralph Grossi, president of the trust, a nonprofit organization.
But once installed, Trainor notes, these renewable sources can produce power indefinitely without consuming new land, unlike coal mines or oil and gas wells, which eventually exhaust their resource and must be abandoned.
