The essential logic of protecting a watershed facing population growth is really pretty straightforward: Maintain the rural landscape outside of cities and towns (with less polluting farming practices, please) while we practice smart growth and bring more natural processes into our developed areas.
With respect to farmers, the emphasis has been on use of incentives to encourage voluntary adoption of less-polluting practices.
The "energy ladder" relating improvements in socioeconomic status with transitions to more sophisticated stoves and to higher quality, less polluting fuels is often invoked as a theoretical model for analyzing household energy management practices.
There is no doubt that changing from traditional biomass fuel stoves to improved less polluting stoves is of main importance in reducing indoor air pollution associated symptoms.
They 'can promote the expectation, generation, distribution, and stabilization of alternative everyday practices, that can satisfy needs, e.g. for nutrition, habitation or mobility in a less polluting way' ([27], p. 35).
Trains are more efficient and less polluting than lorries on all but the shortest routes.
"People got scared," says Terry Shaier, a Nissan dealer in Long Beach.Homes are less polluting, too.
Across emerging Asian countries, a vast new middle class wants a less dangerous, less corrupt and less polluting capitalism.
Car manufacturers have been developing alternative, less polluting engine designs over the past few years.
Nickel-metal-hydride batteries are more expensive and less polluting than nickel-cadmium cells, and have a longer life.
A coalition of Queens civic associations has pushed to replace old locomotives with quieter, less polluting ones.
