Sentences with phrase «big change in your community»

This photo selection from JPG Magazine, illustrates «strides people are making toward becoming sustainable; whether it's a big change in your community or a small tweak to your daily routine.»

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Though it will primarily let growers ship medical marijuana through the mail, the changes have some in the pot community dreaming bigger.

We caught up with Lerner to talk about making big changes by starting in your local community and grabbing your window of opportunity.

We have a long way to go, but by organizing people in their home communities, building voting blocs in key ridings, mobilizing around key decisions, slowly reframing big stories and fighting to lock in systemic changes, we are fundamentally re-balancing power in British Columbia.

[1:20] How the kindness of a stranger changed Tony's life [3:35] Peter Diamandis talks about the origins of X Prize [6:30] Technology helping the agricultural industry [7:00] Sequencing genomes [8:55] Life - work integration [11:15] Finding your highest calling in life [12:00] Reframing what is «impossible» [14:00] Strategy vs. psychology [15:00] Changing your state [16:00] The science of achievement, the art of fulfillment [19:00] Living in a beautiful state [24:00] Thinking 10x bigger [28:00] Surrounding yourself with a «nothing is impossible» community [29:00] The news pollutes your mind [31:00] Tony's natural gifts and core beliefs [33:30] Overcoming failure and criticism [37:45] Defining your environment [40:00] Life happens for you, not to you [42:00] Rituals and practices to up your game [46:30] Tony's priming process

In an event co-hosted with Bloomberg, the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable's April event will feature a panel of technology experts who will discuss the rapidly changing ways that the alternative investment community does business and what they should be aware of — from regulatory and compliance considerations; to cybersecurity; big data; cloud computing and storage; artificial intelligence; machine learning; distributed ledger and other important changes.

While the big lie people in DC believe is that they can change the world on their own, Graham argued that changing their neighborhood — both locally and globally — is best attempted through the sustainable, Spirit - empowered work of a community of faith.

Making it a point to include such small steps while also pursuing bigger changes, like community recycling centers, can make a huge difference in ensuring the Earth stays healthy for generations to come.

This may look like working within the community as a partner, it may look like supporting active work, it may look like participating in a big life - changing way, foster care advocacy, it may look like writing to our government, employment, opportunity, friendship, or perhaps protesting or participating, it may look like advocating for these changes and opportunities at the highest levels of government.

When Nicole and her best friend got pregnant and birthed their babies on the very same day with very different birth stories (both complete with MISSING pieces of informed consent) she knew there was change to be made in the community she lived in and she had big dreams of helping to start that change.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

Love your community When people come together in love, BIG things can happen like positive social change, freedom and justice.

And coming on the heels of startling changes at Salsa, this move has roiled the advocacy community in a big way.

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

«Already big changes have been made in our community, including restricting access to alcohol and implementing health promotion strategies, diagnostic clinics and therapy and support for children and families.

I think that, with more sick people coming to our treatment centres rather than staying in the community and risking spreading the virus, and with continued education, we will see a big change in the situation.

Everyone who takes part in HD research is a hero helping to change the world, but these 46 have taken perhaps the biggest personal risk on behalf of our community.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

«Programs or policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful impact on the climate.»

I joined a community of amazing people that want to change the world, that want to create a big ripple effect in their local communites and in the lives of millions of people.

Instead, I wanted to talk about our biggest change in the last two years: the community.

Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and...

In carrying out such a big change, you need to make sure that the whole school community is involved.

However, many of us are in situations where we could make a big change, such as quitting a job and finding a different one that could be better for us and for our families, and perhaps for the communities we want to serve.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

Some of the HISD principals came to LEV facing challenges ranging from changing the perception of their school in the community to recruiting new students to how to make their big ideas a reality.

Focusing on content and products sure to change the game, now and in the future, helps to support the community of educators and innovators that attend each year and it's the commitment, innovation and dedication from educators that makes the biggest difference to pupils.

Small or big, make an impact in your community, while aware that we have the power and duty to positively change our societies and advance our nations.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community.

From making change at the grocer to making change in the community, the practical application of math is necessary for nearly all of life's endeavors, big and small.

I mean, do we really have to play this game, where because I'm who I am and you're who you are, we pretend that the word «fuck» doesn't exist, and while we're at it, that the action that underlies the word doesn't exist, and I just puke up a bunch of junk about how some teacher changed my life by teaching me how Shakespeare was actually the world's first rapper, or about the time I was doing community service with a bunch of homeless teenagers dying of cancer or something and felt the deep call of selfless action, or else I pull out all the stops and give you the play - by - play sob story of what happened to my dad, or some other terrible heartbreak of a thing that makes you feel so bummed out you figure, what the hell, we've got quotas after all, and this kid's gotten screwed over enough, so you give me the big old stamp of approval and a fat envelope in the mail come April?

Although Big Daddy's time with the staff of Greenbelt Animal Control was short, it was long enough for this abandoned pit bull to warm hearts and change minds in the larger community about this often misunderstood breed.

Regardless of how much time you have or where you live, we have suggestions for how you can do little things to make big changes for animals — in your community and around the world.

«The little change here and there has made a big difference in the local animal welfare community.

These are big changes, we're totally flipping our studio model to a new format that is better equipped to thrive in a turbulent games industry and also does a better job of helping the indie community.

It is hard to see how, without drastic adaptation, big game companies that are concerned principally with profits can continue to compete in a changing marketplace in which smaller developers can create and easily distribute their own games directly to the gaming community.

A big part of the change in direction is from the community feedback and the positive reaction to the DLC expansions which added more off road racing, for one thing.

In response to community feedback, one of the update's biggest goals was to reduce the advantages for campers by changing level architecture and layout, as well as adding rewards for players who successfully banish the boss.

Instead it makes sense to try various solutions to the big environmetal problems as sort of experiements, including changes to the capitalist system in parallel with alternative communities.

By the time we got to Copenhagen there were people who had mobilised in every country on the issue of climate change, where the biggest successes involved people just going out into communities and talking to each village by village, or college by college.

«Climate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olson said.

No other dataset in the Western Antarctic has a completely uninterrupted timeline of data on community ecology, allowing us to see the bigger picture of biological and climatological change in this vital area.

We're ready to pass a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond, make our communities more resilient to climate change, and push for bigger and bolder action every day.

I sat down with American Rivers» Senior Vice President of Conservation, Chris Williams, to hear why he isn't surprised by the news out of Cape Town, why it's a big deal and how American Rivers is working across the country to make sure our communities are thinking and acting in smart ways when it comes to water in the era of climate change.

«I think when you put it in the context of a possible future for the Earth with climate change and the challenges the local community face, that certainly puts it into perspective and it doesn't seem like that big of a sacrifice.»

JEMS Progressive Community Organization ($ 45,000): To organize trainings and programs that encourage community members to take action against climate change, the biggest threat facing their island nation, culminating in a national week of climatCommunity Organization ($ 45,000): To organize trainings and programs that encourage community members to take action against climate change, the biggest threat facing their island nation, culminating in a national week of climatcommunity members to take action against climate change, the biggest threat facing their island nation, culminating in a national week of climate action.

One of the biggest debates in the climate change research community in recent years has been the projected impact of global warming on hurricanes.