These boxes include batteries that allow customers to store power for emergency use, cut back on energy consumption when prices are high and make use of energy drawn from rooftop solar panels.

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It takes many resources to produce some foods, especially meat, so minimizing consumption of high-energy input foods is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint.

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Officials conceded that goal may be too ambitious, but the White House wanted to set a high bar to reduce as much energy consumption as possible.

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Only on carbon emissions (thanks to rising energy consumption per head) did the high-growth countries do worse than the others.

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Most of the headlines about oil prices look at the issue from the consumption perspective: the pain which high energy costs is causing.

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Although high-income economies can sustain GDP growth with little increase in energy consumption, this is not the case in low- and middle-income economies, which have historically seen energy demand grow in tandem with per capita income growth.

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