Sentences with phrase «transition towns in»

: Transition Asheville is presenting a community - wide event, Saturday, August 27, from 5:00 to 10:00 pm at Carrier Park on Amboy Rd. in West Asheville, to celebrate Asheville being officially named the 88th Transition Town in the U.S..

«Serendipitously,» Steuber recalls, «the local environmental group I had joined a few years back had formed a book group to read The Transition Handbook and decided they wanted to start a Transition Town in Media.»

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«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

The Transition Movement, which fosters resiliency and collaboration, has spread to 1,200 towns in 47 countries.

The Hammers defender really caught the eye in the Premier League last season, making the smooth transition from Championship football to the top flight after joining from Ipswich Town.

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If it's hard for you to get out and about town, or if it's easier for you to videochat rather than attend an in - person visit, Womb can help you transition into life with your new baby.

Gillen referred questions about Corbett's role to her transition executive director Brian Muellers, who said in an email: «The bipartisan transition team consisted of over thirty volunteer members with diverse political, economic and community based expertise in the Town of Hempstead and was in no way involved in what has become just the latest, sad chapter in the Town of Oyster Bay.

Gillen said Wednesday in an interview that she was «a little bit disappointed» in the town board's moves, but remains «optimistic» that she can work with Santino and Town Attorney Joe Ra for a successful transittown board's moves, but remains «optimistic» that she can work with Santino and Town Attorney Joe Ra for a successful transitTown Attorney Joe Ra for a successful transition.

«Rosendale has an actual opportunity in our hands to become a model town, a town for the future, like we talk about sustainability and transition towns,» he added, describing his vision going forward.

Ms. Eisenstein said a transition was always in the works, as the group set two - year term limits for its board positions, and that it is not related to her campaign for a Southold Town Board seat.

I have been living and working in India for the past 43 years and have witnessed a transition in cities (even villages and small towns) toward more air pollution and also big dietary changes from whole grains and healthy unrefined oils to white flour, polished rice, excessive sugar and unlimited availability of milk (white revolution).

Nothing brings me more joy than finding clothes that work in the boardroom and transition well for a night on the town.

After spending four (or more) years in a college town constantly meeting new people, we transition into a workplace where we're typically around the same people every day.

It's the perfect transition top from the office with a pair of dressy culottes, to a leather skirt in the evening for a night out on the town.

We will expand to focus on other cities, towns, and provinces later in 2015 AFTER THE TRANSITION TO BEING A TOTALLY FREE SITE.

He fills the gloomy town with colorfully abstract peasants and hard - bitten villagers, films the Talbot Manor like a haunted house, pumps fog through every nighttime scene, silhouettes his figures in the night with carefully calibrated backlights and sweeps through every transition with striking images that look more like TV commercials than portents of horror.

The premise on its own sounds intriguing: a woman joins some men for antics in town but things get out of hand when they transition from a party to a robbery.

And in recent years he's made the transition and proven himself to be a great director (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).

So the five disgraced troopers are brought in by their former Captain, John O'Hagen (Brian Cox), to set up a new patrol station and make sure the town transition is smooth.

Perhaps fittingly, then, it's a film about western myth and the transition from outlaw gunslingers to government rule, a transition aided in one town at least by the man who shot outlaw Liberty Valance.

After making a surprisingly chilling force of evil in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade, Yoakam, who also co-wrote, makes a disastrous transition to lead status as Val Casey, the marshal of a small western town in the early 1900s.

Apart from a strong supporting role as an FBI agent in Ben Affleck's excellent The Town, Jon Hamm hasn't made the expected transition from the TV success of Mad Men to real film stardom.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

Crossovers have become a natural transition from the truck based SUVs of the last 20 years, because most drivers finally realized that driving around town in an expensive vehicle built off a truck platform wasn't as much fun as it looked.

Hybrids brake electrically during mild braking and transition to mechanical on harder braking or when the propulsion battery is fully charged as occurs in extended down hill travel so a gentle test drive around town can obviously not reveal a brake problem.

The 5.6 - liter V8 provides sufficient muscle to cope with in - town traffic or freeway overtaking and, while the QX56's tall profile and curb weight of nearly three tons can elicit considerable body roll during really brisk cornering or transition maneuvers (as would be reasonably expected of such a vehicle during such driving), its standard and driver - selectable Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) package provides reassurance, particularly during slippery conditions.

Passionate about re-establishing our connection with the Earth, she supports the work of the Transition Town network in her hometown of Bedford, England.

: — RRB - Seaside town, flawed but loyal girlfriends, major life transitions, family struggles, a bit of mermaid lore, inspiration from The Little Mermaid (both Disney's adaptation and the original Hans Christian Andersen tale), and of course — falling in love!

In the years since, she has successfully transitioned to writing fiction — Susan is now the author of the Alpine Grove Romantic Comedies series that features residents of the small town of Alpine Grove and their various quirky dogs and cats.

Cranford presents a sensitive and moving portrait of a Victorian town, captured at a crucial moment of transition in English society.

Town officials were «overwhelmingly forthcoming and welcoming,» constantly staying in touch about the whole transition, LaMothe said.

Actress Andie MacDowell, whose first hit was Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies and Videotape, transitions to the heartwarming, as Judge Olivia Lockhart in the upcoming Hallmark series, Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, based on the series of best sellers set in a small town in Washington state.

Tom's strategy, which he would recommend to all investors, but especially to those that are just starting out, is that every time you perform a fix - and - flip, take the $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 profit and go out to the fringe areas of the town that you live in (where it starts to transition from suburban to rural).

For a small shelter run by a non-profit in a resort or college town, a director with good marketing and management skills may be all that's needed, and the transition to No Kill may be quick.

With one check - in and one check - out, transition from Town to Country is seamless.

Seamless transitions in and out buildings would be something We'd like to see, as ridding of the short loading times between transitions would add to the feel of the town constantly being alive.

While those aspects have been common in all Bethesda games, Fallout 4 introduces a lot of new features: Seamless transition between in and outdoors, massive customization options (you can even build your own town), etc... and still saw a nice graphical improvement!

This suite of small works — started as visual interpretations of his pulp novel Ten High in the early «80s — feature several recurring characters (including one very skinny horse) in a setting that looks like it's already made the transition into a ghost town.

The transition in Searle's focus from the work made as a masters student (Searle received her M.F.A. in 1995)- resin sculptures encasing found objects - started with her piece for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale show in 1997, «Life's Little Necessities», staged at the The Cape Town Castle, when Searle introduced the pentagram shape of the Castle laid out in spices as part of her installation.

The transition toward town life in the devastated Darfur region of Sudan, is coming with increasing environmental costs, as brick kilns burn round the clock, reports my friend and colleague Neil MacFarquhar, in a «Letter from West Darfur» posted on The Lede:

He started Transition Towns Totnes in early 2006, and it took off like a rocket.

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

He is great on the merits of emerging sharing economy models, new public transport systems and town planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mtown planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mTown movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.

There's a town in England that's doing it too, although I think that's on the Transition website.

So, I left the Port Townsend Peace Movement in 2006 to turn my attention, with others, to instigating what was to become our Transition Town, Local 2020 and discover what it might mean to become more sustainable as a community.

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The Transition Movement is a worldwide organization of small neighborhoods, which is forming as Transition Towns, to address some of the current problems we are facing in our country and world.

Yet even with such a large community of dedicated volunteers, in the FreeStore and other Transition Town Media initiatives, some challenges have inevitably arisen.

While she was mostly interested in keeping things out of their local landfill, DiRemigio says that the FreeStore, which is located in the annex of a local Methodist church, has also made Transition Town Media much more widely known throughout their local community.