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Environmental Idioms
Environmental Idioms
Environment:
1. Food supply chain: Right the way up the food supply chain in supermarkets, grocers,
bakers, factories, farms, homes.
2. Food waste: When you start going up the food supply chain, you find where the real
food waste is happening.
3. Ecological limits: reaching the Ecological limits that our planet can bear.
6. fossil fuels (coal, oil , natural gas): When we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to
grow more and more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think
about what we can start saving.
7. Harvest: Farmest who throw away half of their harvest because of cosmetic standards
10. Global warming: Is the global warming problem going to be a lot easier to solve than
anybody imagined?
12. Global implications: Well, what China does at home on the environment can have global
implications for the rest of us.
13. climate crisis: If we're going to overcome the climate crisis, is to keep in mind that the
cause of the clean energy crisis isn't from within our machines, it's from within
ourselves.
15. Clean and renewable energy: China has been making enormous investment when it
comes to clean and renewable energy like hydro power, wind and solar.
16. Cars have been emitting different types of polluting gases like carbon monoxide, carbon
dioxide, and sulphur trioxide.
17. Environmental conditions: Each day, we are deeply influenced by the social, economic
and environmental conditions that surround us
18. Ecosystem: Our ecosystem is approaching a “tipping point” where damage becomes
“irreversible.”
19. Clean energy revolution <=> Clean energy crisis : The IEA believes that the world needs a
clean energy revolution in order to break dependence on fossil fuels.
20. Environmental footprint: If mechanical systems rarely work, what if we could design a
hospital that could breathe through natural ventilation, and meanwhile reduce its
environmental footprint?
24. Regenerate habitat: We are using bigrock to create new reefs to regenerate habitat.
26. Recycle
28. Solar power / Solar energy / Fossil fuels / coal / natural gas / nuclear
29. biodegradable
30. Urbanization