As became clear throughout the forum, innumerable ways exist to lessen environmental impact while making a profit.
In response to the Guanabara Bay spill, the company's president, Henri Philippe Reichstul, announced a three-year, $900 million program to improve operational security and lessen environmental impacts.
Safer-looking gas and riskier-looking coal provide an environment in which the effort required to induce switching from one to the other is lessened; environmental prudence increasingly goes with the grain of the market.
Oil drilling technology has made impressive leaps forward in recent years that should considerably lessen environmental concerns.
Energy-efficient communications also tend to reduce electromagnetic interference and lessen environmental impacts, for example, heat dissipation and electronic pollution.
Consideration of these concerns in future energy policy both in the Bakken and worldwide could reduce social tension, lessen environmental impact, and increase overall social, economic, and environmental efficiency in energy development.
"For us it's less the economy and more about lessening our environmental impact," said Dr. Cavalleri, who recently received a doctorate in environmental health at Harvard.
They are also quiet and fly at low altitude, at around 4,000ft compared with 35,000ft, further lessening their environmental impact.
But airport officials, airlines and architects said that they put as much emphasis on redefining the travel experience as on lessening its environmental impact.
And we need continued research and development into pavements to ensure that drivers across the country can arrive safely and quickly, while lessening the environmental impact.
