Sentence examples for material economy from inspiring English sources

The images follow the life of recycled materials, and illustrate the importance of the informal material economy.

Might the same be true for many other sectors as we transition to a low carbon, low material economy?

Nanotechnology has the potential to build a post-scarcity material economy – with the same implications we are so awkwardly working through in the post-scarcity information economy.

The entire material economy began as part of the earth, buried in the ground, or it grew from it, or it was alive before we transformed it.

We still need to get off fossil fuels, and – most importantly – we have to kick our obsession with endless exponential growth and downsize our material economy to bring it back in tune with ecological cycles.

They were a part of the city, extending up to 3 miles (5 km) from its ancient Roman wall, yet in crucial aspects were set apart from it; they were also an integral part of a complex civic structure common to the walled medieval and Renaissance metropolis, a marginal geopolitical domain that was nonetheless central to the symbolic and material economy of the city.

Another reason for this, I suspect, is some subconscious unease with our digitized post-material economy.

Comprehensive understanding of dematerialization depends on in-depth analysis on material-economy relationships from an integrated stock and flow perspective.

If it is utilised, it partly substitutes for a brand-new material (an economy corresponding to β-technique).

This, in turn, means a huge increase in the demand for energy and raw materials.Emerging economies already account for over half of the world's total energy consumption.

"Because of the new market economy, material markers are replacing social markers.