Sentences with phrase «as air and water»

Tort remedies are essential to protect people (and their property) who do not have contractual relations with defendants from harms such as air and water pollution.

Shell's approved exploration plan is even bigger, dirtier, and louder than 2012, including the use of two drilling rigs in a concentrated area and a bigger armada of vessels, all posing a threat to wildlife including whales, walruses and seals, as well as air and water pollution discharges.

Meanwhile, as air and water temperatures around the globe continue to warm, health experts have warned that diseases like the mosquito - borne Zika virus may well become worse and more prevalent across the planet.

Once revered for being «free as air and water» and for its selective application process, Cooper Union in the East Village has increased tuition and accepted a higher percentage of students than in previous years.

While more than 159 years have passed since Peter Cooper first opened these doors, the commitment to the ideal that education be «as free as air and water» remains central to the essence and identity of this institution.

But the school that's «as free as air and water» is the only one of its kind in the country, and its policy is starting to look quaint, especially for a small private school in the middle of an economic downturn.

All efforts of Free Cooper Union work to establish the foundation of a new chapter at our college and in society at large - one that will uphold the principles that allow education to be «as free as air and water», in a long term sustainable, and socially conscious manner.

The private college was founded by Peter Cooper, a self - made millionaire and philanthropist, in 1859, to further his belief that education should be as «free as air and water.»

It was also important that «free as air and water» meant no one could be denied a valuable education because they couldn't afford one.

Over a century, Cooper Union in the East Village, revered for being «free as air and water,» became one of the most selective in the country, attracting top students in art, architecture and engineering.

He wished to provide New York City's working class with the opportunity of a formal education — an opportunity he'd never been afforded — and was known for saying that education should be as «free as air and water.»

«Nothing has happened yet and to mount this kind of social protest is a form of acceptance that it will — that tuition is a foregone conclusion, which it isn't,» architecture professor Lebbeus Woods posted on Free as Air and Water, a new blog where alumni, faculty and students discuss Cooper Union's situation.

On the fifth and sixth floors of Cooper Union's Foundation building, students set up an art giveaway exhibit called «As Free as Air and Water.»

So 153 years after the inventor and industrialist Peter Cooper founded a school long rhapsodized as «free as air and water,» it is considering whether to end its most famous tradition, and start making undergraduates pay to attend.

Van de Ven heeft onderandere deelgenomen aan de volgende groepstentoonstellingen: Project Europa: Imagining the Impossible, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Moving Worlds, Podbielsky Contemporary, Berlijn (bijde 2011); Morality — Act VIII Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai World Expo (2010); Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York (2009); Be (coming) Dutch, Van Abbe Museum (2008), Documenta 12, Kassel (2007), the 2006 Sydney Biennale, and Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With (2005).

at BAK Utrecht, NL, and Kunsthal Extra City Antwerp, BE; Politiek Kunstbezit, Jonas Staal at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; The City that Doesn't Exist, Ludwig Forum Aachen, DE (all 2012); Melanchotopia, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL; Project Europa: Imagining the Impossible, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US; Moving Worlds, Podbielsky Contemporary, Berlin, DE (all 2011); The Politics of Collecting / The Collecting of Politics, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; Morality — Act VIII Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai World Expo, China (both 2010); Freedom of Expression, Museum As Hub, Van Abbemuseum at the New Museum, New York, US; Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York, US (all 2009); Be (coming) Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (2008); and Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL (2005).

#Cooper Union Admissions #Cooper Union #Jamshed Bharucha #college admissions #tuition #debt #student debt #higher education #higher ed #free cooper union #free as air and water

The future of Cooper Union extends far beyond the boundaries of Astor Place and New York City, far beyond grades and classes - the vision of Peter Cooper and the concept of education that is as free as air and water is critically important for the survival of humankind.

This would represent another kind of union with the community, in which education would be considered as vital as air and water.

Free Cooper Union UK (FCUUK) invites you to Public Assembly, a special one - night exhibition and graduation party celebrating creative education that is «free as air and water».

Mr. Jovanovic said he wanted to uphold the pledge by Peter Cooper, the college's founder, to provide an education «free as air and water.»

#Cooper Union #Cooper Union Admissions #Free Cooper Union #Jamshed Bharucha #tuition #tuition - free #scholarship #Peter Cooper #college #higher education #Izzy Pezzulo #student debt #free as air and water #accepted students #hometest #save cooper union

On November 17, 2011, at a student rally in Union Square organized by Occupy Wall Street, a young woman's words echoed through the crowd via the people's microphone: «Education should be as free as air and water.»

#Katie Show #Katie Couric #Cooper Union #free cooper union #Ivory TOwer #Victoria Sobel #Andrew Rossi #Andrew Deblanco #higher education #debt #student debt #tuition #free education #free as air and water #Jamshed Bharucha #Mark Epstein #Committee to Save Cooper Union #lawsuit #debt strike #iamnotaloan #New York #NYC

Victoria Sobel, a student protester, said in a statement, «We and the rest of Cooper's community believe that when our efforts and experience are added to the board's, that we will find a way back together to [founder] Peter Cooper's vision of education that is as «free as air and water.»»

Openings Advancing the Mission: Cooper Union at 150 Free as Air and Water Architecture at Cooper 1859 — 2009 Lubalin Now 41 Cooper Square

Curated by Dean Saskia Bos and Associate Dean Steven Lam, Free as Air and Water addresses these questions within the context of contemporary art linking a broad set of issues such as public access to resources, political ecology and governmentality within a group exhibition that features a diverse array of artistic operations and tactics.

The exhibition takes Peter Cooper's belief that «Education should be Free as Air and Water» as a starting point.

For 156 years, Cooper Union has been at the center of New York City's civic life, a beacon of egalitarian education, «free as air and water.»

It's as important as air and water and the love we give and receive from human family members.

Not when I know what I do these days about the psychology of dogs and their need for human love and company being as essential to them as air and water.

«Piracy exists as sure as air and water exist.»

Magnesium is almost as basic as air and water for healthy living.

The key component of the research was the creation of a solid - state crystal made of «metamaterials» that had the property of negative refraction, which causes light to curve in the opposite direction from where it naturally would while passing through naturally occurring materials, such as air and water.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.

Investing In Pollution Control Systems Companies Pollution control systems companies are serious businesses that engage in the design, development and implementation of consumer and industrial pollution control products such as air and water filtration systems, dust collectors and various scrubbers.

Not exact matches

Water, as intrinsic to our lives as the air we breathe, is becoming increasingly rare and valuable.

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

A recent Geophysical Research Letters study found that the Arctic permafrost contains 32 million gallons of mercury, which is projected to adversely affect our global air, food, water and soil supplies as the Earth warms and the permafrost unthaws, releasing the neurotoxin.

«We lost the air conditioner, hot water, and TV, and we also lost the opportunity to dream about what could be as we were too caught up trying to get by,» he writes.

A.O. Smith (water heaters, air purification products) said that «As a result of significantly higher steel prices and inflation in freight and other costs, we announced a price increase up to 12 % on U.S. water heater products effective in early June.»

That's how many examples are on a «list of the harmed,» people who have offered personal stories of harm from fracking, as tallied by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air.

And so he drew up a grid over Europe, each cell incorporating Bjerknes's weather data, including locational variables such as the extent of open water affecting evaporation, and five vertical divisions in the upper aAnd so he drew up a grid over Europe, each cell incorporating Bjerknes's weather data, including locational variables such as the extent of open water affecting evaporation, and five vertical divisions in the upper aand five vertical divisions in the upper air.

«It shows the Trump administration doesn't hold the same American values for clean air, clean water and healthy land as the vast majority of its citizens,» McCarthy said in a statement.

As administrator, Pruitt has refocused the EPA to get «back to basics,» homing in on the agency's «core mission» of protecting the nation's air, land, and water.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Ruair and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water RuAir Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Water Rule.

«The need for connection and community is primal, as funadmental as the need for air, water, and food.»

The province's ban on unsolicited, door - to - door sales covers most heating, air and water services, but the MPP who pushed for it said it stops short of encompassing companies in other sectors because they don't all fall under provincial jurisdiction or generate as many complaints with Consumer Protection Ontario.