Sentence examples for spur conservation from inspiring English sources

This would do more than spur conservation.

From his home in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, Couto later told me that he hoped the case would spur conservation.

He hopes that native pride in the enormous fish will also help spur conservation efforts in Mongolia.

The Great Inagua flock numbered fewer than 5,000 in 1952 when Robert Porter Allen, research director of the National Audubon Society, visited the island and began to spur conservation efforts.

Raising the federal petrol tax (which has remained at just 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993) would spur conservation and reduce imports even if the world oil price dropped.

(But keep in mind that the internet did not spring from industrial policy to improve the Post Office, the word processor did not come from a public-private consortium to rescue the typewriter industry, and that a huge carbon tax is much more likely to spur useful green ideas, and the only way to spur conservation).

Then the hottest summer on record spurred repeated conservation warnings, as grid managers worked — successfully — to avoid more blackouts.

But experience suggests that high prices sustained over long periods encourage massive investment in exploration and improved yields from existing infrastructure.That is what happened in the 1970s, when high prices spurred energy conservation and made it cost-effective to produce in places like Alaska and the North Sea.

President Roosevelt's protection of the Grand Canyon spurred a conservation ethic to protect our purple mountains majesty.

Conservation, spurred by high prices and green regulation, is more like a ratchet than a piece of elastic.

Earlier this year, lawmakers warned of an impending energy crisis as they debated wide-ranging legislation to improve automotive efficiency, reward energy conservation and spur development of alternative power sources.