Sentences with phrase «environmental achievement in»

What do you call it when a company exaggerates an environmental achievement in order to divert attention away from environmental problems?

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2018 — Recognizing environmental achievement in the auto industry, the Kia Niro has been named Green Car Journal's 2018 Green SUV of the Year ™.

This award promotes and recognises outstanding environmental achievement in the Western Australian resources industry.

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The really compelling argument for disallowing the coal supply chain through Fraser Surrey Docks is that it effectively undoes that achievement in emissions reduction if the same hydrocarbons end up being burned and vented into the atmosphere in China, where if anything environmental protections are more lax.

Danielle was recognized with the WaterKeeper's Environmental Achievement Award in 2000 for her outstanding achievements protecting California waters from pollution and compelling polluters to assume the costs of environmentalEnvironmental Achievement Award in 2000 for her outstanding achievements protecting California waters from pollution and compelling polluters to assume the costs of environmentalenvironmental degradation.

Pinchin Environmental Ltd is a Great Place to Work ® and is recognized for this achievement in the Canadian Business 2007 «Best Workplaces in Canada» list.

The importance of this achievement was acknowledged in 2006 when the Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing were awarded the afore - mentioned Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award.

Sustainability surfaced in packaging vernacular in 2006, after publication of «The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best - Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too» by Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber, which Amazon.com describes as «the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievEnvironmental Success - and How You Can Too» by Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber, which Amazon.com describes as «the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievenvironmental achievement.»

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

Monitoring and evaluation are critical steps in the management of Commonwealth environmental water; supporting the efficient and effective use of Commonwealth environmental water within the planning framework and demonstrating the achievement of environmental objectives.

The awards, which return to recognise the most Innovative Robotic Machinery, Partnership of the Year and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award will also, for the first time, recognise the innovative and varied steps manufacturers or end users have taken in the adoption of green measures in their businesses in the new «Environmental Initiative of the Year» category.

The 2017 Sustainability Report highlights annual progress and key achievements in environmental performance, social responsibility and corporate governance.

The packages featured in the Achievement Awards section are displayed by award level (Highest Achievement, Gold and Silver) and exemplify innovative enhancements in the following categories: extending the use of flexible packaging; packaging excellence; printing achievement and shelf impact; technical innovation; and sustainability and environmental aAchievement Awards section are displayed by award level (Highest Achievement, Gold and Silver) and exemplify innovative enhancements in the following categories: extending the use of flexible packaging; packaging excellence; printing achievement and shelf impact; technical innovation; and sustainability and environmental aAchievement, Gold and Silver) and exemplify innovative enhancements in the following categories: extending the use of flexible packaging; packaging excellence; printing achievement and shelf impact; technical innovation; and sustainability and environmental aachievement and shelf impact; technical innovation; and sustainability and environmental achievementachievement.

Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.

An Iowa corn field today, whatever critics say of its environmental impacts, is an extraordinary technological achievement and produces more food on an acre than almost any acre known in history — certainly any nonirrigated acre.

The achievement will allow researchers to conduct further studies to determine how the hormone helps plants respond to drought and other environmental stresses driven by the continuing increase in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide, or CO2, concentration.

M. T. Thomas Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievement in the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL, 2001

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Calvin who received a 2015 Ronald L. Brodzinski Early Career Exceptional Achievement award for leadership in research that integrates environmental and climate change research and their socioeconomic implications for the future.

According to the TCEQ, the Texas Environmental Excellence Award is the state's highest environmental honor and acknowledges achievements in environmental preservation and protection in diversEnvironmental Excellence Award is the state's highest environmental honor and acknowledges achievements in environmental preservation and protection in diversenvironmental honor and acknowledges achievements in environmental preservation and protection in diversenvironmental preservation and protection in diverse categories.

His numerous awards include the John Heinz Prize in Public Policy, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and a 1981 MacArthur Prize Fellowship.

Caermon explains why the Solar Schools model benefits both school and students: «The school starts making money straight away (no payback period) and acquires a new asset, while the children are directly engaged in the fundraising, and so their own feeling of pride and achievement expands into a positive feeling towards renewables and an interest in environmental issues».

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

White House Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Schaefer joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and District Sustainability Awardees on their achievements at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

... Suffice it to say that until unbiased instruction is provided to children — resulting in equal exposure to challenging material, equal opportunity to respond and demonstrate knowledge, equally nurturing relationships, and the absence of discriminatory labels and barriers to accomplishment — one can not fully rule out environmental explanations for the achievement gaps that are documented.»

Teacher Retention and Student Achievement: Environmental Factors, Social Capital and Interventions in Urban, Pre-Dominantly Latino Schools

«The diversity of this year's award finalists shows just how aggressively environmental achievement is emerging in all vehicle classes,» said Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal and GreenCarJournal.com.

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

May Berenbaum, a brilliant entomologist and voice of reason amid all the heat over troubles with bee colonies in recent years, has won the $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

The report will also concentrate on how ARRA - related efforts can provide the foundation for long - term achievement of California's energy and environmental policy goals and help the state transform its energy production and use in a way that will provide lasting and sustainable economic, energy, and environmental benefits.

We are pleased to offer expert services based on our research achievements and extensive knowledge in improving the activities and monitoring of environmental phenomena and creating necessary services and tools for decision makers.

One of this year's Heinz awards — a $ 100,000 prize for achievement in environmental science and leadership — is going to Chris Field, the Stanford ecologist and leading carbon - cycle expert who became co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2 in 2008.

As Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.»

Hear from leading retailers, brands, and supplier platforms about achievements in social and environmental terms, opportunities, challenges, and future outlook.

In connection with carbon footprints, First Climate also offers a benchmarking service, which helps to make your environmental achievements comparable to that of your competitors.

If the goal is to rapidly replace fossil fuel use with wind, solar and hydropower, then the achievement of the goal will take longer and be more expensive — and will likely result in a large cost in terms of lives lost and total environmental pollution.

In 2004, he received the National Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of environmental desigIn 2004, he received the National Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of environmental desigin the field of environmental design.

Achievement of the environmental standards remained dismal, especially in terms of emissions of NOx and particulate matter (PM) from diesel cars.

«We applaud both 3E and AER for their outstanding achievements in the environmental and renewable power industries,» said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego), publisher of Environmental Business Journal and Climate Change Busienvironmental and renewable power industries,» said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego), publisher of Environmental Business Journal and Climate Change BusiEnvironmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego), publisher of Environmental Business Journal and Climate Change BusiEnvironmental Business Journal and Climate Change Business Journal.

3E Company received a Business Achievement Award from Environmental Business Journal ® in the information technology category, while AER received a Business Achievement Award from Climate Change Business Journal ® in the low - carbon and renewable power category.

Walker Environmental Group, who was instrumental in the collection of data and calculation of the footprint, congratulates Mucci's Group's achievement in obtaining Carbonzero Certification.

«We examined international relationships between the sustainability of resource use and the achievement of social goals, and found that basic needs, such as nutrition, sanitation, and the elimination of extreme poverty, could most likely be achieved in all countries without exceeding global environmental limits,» said Daniel O'Neill, who directs the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds in the UK.

It was announced today that the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement will go to two biological oceanographers based in the United States: Paul Falkowski, a professor of Geological and...

In 2014, we celebrated 25 years of the Prize by looking back at our founders» motivation for awarding grassroots environmental activists, and honoring the achievements of those who had received the Prize so far:

Given your important role in creating a major environmental achievement that resulted in a citizen of your country being awarded such an important, international award, we are greatly surprised and deeply disappointed by the recent actions taken against Mr. Ona.

In the subsequent slide, I examine some of the impressive achievements of the journal Environmental Research Letters, which demonstrates the implausibility of this kind of conspiratorial thinking.

The New Leaders Initiative (NLI) grows environmental leadership by raising the profile of young emerging environmental leaders in North America, celebrating their achievements, and providing them with the skills, resources, and relationships to lead effective campaigns and projects.

These analytical documents bring together information to provide an overview of countries» environmental governance and performance, both in terms of achievements and shortcomings.

Ehrlich spoke to the Stanford Report before leaving for Spain to receive the Ramon Margalef Prize for lifetime achievement in Ecology and Environmental Sciences.