Colonoscopy pap smears and mammography for example are some of the most powerful lifesaving tools doctors have at their disposal.
While the addictiveness and long-term effects of using e-cigarettes as a nicotine delivery system are unknown many people anecdotally believe that they are safer than traditional tobacco products.
#Suburban sprawl cancels carbon footprint savings of dense urban coresaccording to a new study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley population-dense cities contribute less greenhouse gas emissions
When you package low carbon technologies together you find real financial savings and big social and environmental benefits.
The first units are scheduled for delivery in March 2013. I think people want more, Vu said.
and reaping significant savings revenues that will remain within their communities, rather than disappearing into the pockets of oil companies or the public coffers of Venezuela and Saudi arabia.
100 million mature trees around buildings in the U s. leads to an annual energy savings of $2 billion.
It will provide a great cup of coffee to the world while saving on employee costs.
offering more than twice the durability than the current leather seats as well as a weight savings of almost two pounds per seat.
Life vest Pouch-more environmentally friendly because it offers a weight savings of one pound per passenger,
The Oklahoma State study aimed to evaluate the energy savings of LEDS and how they performed overall,
what the cost and delivery volumes will be. And nobody is going to spend billions on port
and rescue mission, finding its way perfectly over unchartered terrain and back home. Or, sticking directly with the the bee's reason to be,
it would take four to 10 years of travel before the wheel to tank greenhouse savings met
and--especially in dense cities--energy savings. But cities shouldn't let all that get to their head.
Sometimes, an initiative to minimize packaging (put aside the green benefits for a moment) can result in damages that are 10 to 20 times greater than the value of the initial savings.
How much are you saving by using rail? It all depends. Let s say there s a Procter & gamble manufacturing plant in Dover, Delaware.
but we re looking into That is the savings passed along to your customers when things are shipped by train?
Operational savings? Environmental impact? Local leadership? DC: I don't really think I can prioritize them,
Following a decade of scrimping and saving, he was able to buy some basic equipment to make his own paper.
Back in 1992, physicist and author Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, published Saving the'library of life'in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He also argued that saving the DNA should be a complement to traditional conservation efforts that might not always work,
with a goal of saving 25 percent of all wild plants by 2020. Should we eat the babies?
Last year, that efficiency improvement amount to a savings of more than 12 billion liters of water.
However, it allows for saving during the construction process. For instance, the Stadthaus architects conducted a case study that found a similar nine-story building would take 72 weeks to build compared with 49 weeks for the one built with the lighter timber.
That would cut out both long haul transport and local deliveries. Plantlab has made laudable strides toward piling the crops high.
The main driver for the switch from manual, paper-based processes is cost-savings and efficiency,
and water pollution and saving the energy needed for manufacturing, distribution and sales. Newspaper circulation is declining,
However, most studies ON IT energy consumption don t to take into account the overall savings in electricity and power usage as a result of mass computerization.
when you combine an entrepreneurial organic food delivery company with a regional healthcare system interested helping address obesity
Garden on the go is a partnership between Indiana University Health and Green B. E. A n. Delivery,
an online delivery company that provides organic produce and natural groceries to customers in Indianapolis and Fort wayne in Indiana;
However, our research showed that the emissions from these activities proved to be more than the savings.
That s what the UK-based Energy Saving Trust concludes in its freshly minted report, The Elephant in the Living room:
Bottom, Energy Saving Trust More digital global warming: Facebook plans Subarctic data center Iceland cometh
GE Water sustainability chief Jeff Fulgham: We need a price on waterwhy doesn't water get more attention?
GPS saves gas for produce delivery companymichael Gilbert says the Navman Wireless installation paid for itself in 90 days.
a midsize produce delivery company that uses about 65 trucks to deliver fruits and vegetables to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
and long delivery stops (even though the drivers are, in essence, customer service representatives and are encouraged to talk to clients,
Prolonged delivery times: The Navman Wireless technology quickly helped reduce the amount of time that drivers spent offloading their trucks at each stop.
Across the fleet, average delivery times were reduced about 25 percent, Gilbert said. Route optimization: Indianapolis Fruit was able to study each of its routes more closely
The company actually paid for the installation of the technology with its savings within 90 days
Trucking and delivery services Next to airlines, long-haul trucking companies are arguably the most vulnerable to fuel price shocks.
optimizing routes and shifting deliveries to less congested times of the day. Optimizing the behavior of drivers is another fuel-reduction strategy advocated by companies like Dubai-based Dynamic Technical Training.
For national delivery services like UPS who have optimized already their drivers'habits and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets,
Then when that is complete, the municipality will reduce greenhouse gas by about 30 percent with an annual savings of $880,
The trees provide $11. 2 million in annual energy savings, have a carbon sequestration value of $386, 000,
so we're dependent on them for food deliveries, Yi said. Despite the plant s apparent environmental benefits, Beijingers remain suspicious.
In exchange, 75%of developing countries will have to make biodiversity part of the national agenda as well as spend their own money on saving it.
The ipad also does not allow saving of PDFS and it's not Flash-friendly as one blogger writes.
but the savings can be substantial. via MIT Colab Radio Photo: Simply CVR
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and it is adopting new technology for its delivery fleet. These and other measures are helping improve the company's standing and reputation in its Northern New england customer service area,
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
and offer home deliveries. As a nonprofit organization, Open Food Foundation supports free software for community-focused small businesses working in the food industry.
The cars belong to the Green league  an organic food delivery firm set up by a band of local mothers.
as well as a nearby kindergarten, buy food from the League,  receiving  deliveries twice a week.
 Green league staff prepare produce for delivery. Yujing and the other mothers (the founders were all female),
and more on common sense as the number of stranded motorists needing rescue climbs higher. Down Under, motorists in Victoria, Australia, have been warned by police to be careful
when it comes to return on investment we are hands down the greatest savings. Our products never break.
A significant cost (and hassle) savings. SP: What about snow and ice? In what ways are Rubbersidewalks â â¢products different
To understand the role of innovation and technology in saving ourselves, Smartplanet turned to David Biello who has been writing about the environment and energy for nearly 15 years, most recently for Scientific American.
Shoppers seem ready to trade the long-term benefit of a reusable fake tree for the short-term savings of a cut tree,
Those cost savings allow it to turn, say, two bales of hay into five gallons of ethanol for less than $1 a gallon,
More than a decade after publishing a study in Science and selling a promising idea for an inhaled drug delivery system, Edwards,
His concerns regarding food delivery are shared well. A 2010 symposium hosted by the Global Harvest Initiative in Washington
thus increasing the price of the savings. Given the subsidy of £45 per MWH, says Mr Vetter, it costs £225 to save one tonne of CO2 by switching from gas to wood.
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