Sentences with phrase «planet living initiative»

Jean - Paul Jeanrenaud, director of WWF International's One Planet Living initiative, said, «Today Abu Dhabi is embarking on a journey to become the global capital of the renewable energy revolution.

Jean - Paul Jeanrenaud, Director of WWF International's One Planet Living initiative, said,» Today Abu Dhabi is embarking on a journey to become the global capital of the renewable energy revolution.

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Project Blue is a space initiative to find other Earth - like planets in the Alpha Centauri system by launching a special - purpose telescope that can identify «blue» planets that may have oceans and can support life.

Middle grades educators would have to live on another planet not to be aware of initiatives involving the Common Core State Standards, teacher accountability, and PreK — 12 state achievement tests.

Since then, I have realized that there is a lot more to the world then what we see around us, and the only way to experience this beautiful planet we live in is to take the initiative and, as Nike says, «Just do it.»

Microsoft actually accomplished this earlier with their Games for Windows Live initiative, allowing Xbox 360 owners to play against PC gamers in games like Shadowrun, Universe at War, and Lost Planet: Colonies.

In addition, this complex, contradictory, propositive exhibition, committed to human life on the planet during its late anthropocene phase, is an innovative initiative that is configured without the straitjacket of a traditional curatorship, but develops with free dialogue between the participating artists and academics of the UNAM, mainly around the analysis of detritus as matter in transformation.

Masdar City - which will be zero - carbon, zero - waste and car - free - plans to exceed the requirements of the 10 sustainability principles of the One Planet Living programme, a global initiative launched by WWF and environmental consultancy BioRegional.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

The cooperation will take place through the «One Planet Living ™» program, a global initiative launched by WWF and environmental consultancy BioRegional.

I chose to apply to IBM as I was very interested by their Smarter Planet initiatives as well as by Watson, particularly in the Life Sciences and Healthcare field.