Sentences with phrase «build local greenhouses»

If they'd agree to forge long - term partnerships with Lightfoot, who had nearly a decade of supply - chain expertise under his belt, he could build local greenhouses to provide kale, spinach, romaine, and other salad greens.

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Finances, builds, and operates greenhouse farms in partnership with supermarkets, to sell local produce and shorten the supply chain.

Through the project's greenhouse gas accounting, build local awareness about the value of maintaining and restoring forest cover, and improve the desirability of maintaining shade coffee over cattle ranching or other activities with a higher ecological impact.

«Leading by example in making state buildings more energy efficient will save taxpayers money, create thousands of local jobs, and bolster New York's broader efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Gennaro praised Bloomberg's PlaNYC, a master plan for building an environmentally sustainable New York which, like Local Law 55, lays out initiatives for cutting the city's greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030.

Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

They have joined with the local government in the Eco-Office Challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in other buildings across the city, starting with Redmond's six fire stations.

Owned and run by Yorkshireman Ossie Hall and Filipino partner Alma, The Greenhouse Boracay Beach Villa is built to Western standards but in keeping with the local Filipino style of bamboo and native palm

Responding to the Sun Porch's alternating role of winter conservatory and summer art space, Frezza and Chiao have built a small, pyramidal greenhouse in the center of the Sun Porch, populated by a lush assortment of handmade, paper plants dispersed among living plants curated from local nurseries.

«By serving less meat and more plant - based meals in their hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, and office buildings, local governments are realizing measurable greenhouse gas reductions, health benefits and cost savings.

In the case of this incredible geodesic greenhouse dome, it is the necessity to re-localise our food supply and begin to build resilience back into our local communities and even into our own backyards.

Reduce your business's greenhouse gas emissions by helping build projects that benefit local communities.

It would be very interesting to follow closely contract attributions both off and on campuses and how much a discount may be offered to Universities new buildings in relation with the number of municipal contracts linked to «climate change» mitigation... Local newspapers that are surviving mostly on real estates ads are very much willing propagandists of the worst kind: http://www.nsnews.com/north-vancouver-city-plans-for-climate-change-floods-1.668838 «Although the city approved an ongoing strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, the focus is now on dealing with existing climate change, said Caroline Jackson, section manager of environmental sustainability at the City of North Vancouver.»

According to Stone, cases where the link between human - generated greenhouse gas emissions and local warming trends were weak were often due to the fact that the climate observational record was insufficient in those regions to build a clear picture about what has been happening over the past several decades.

Innovative and supportive policies at the federal, state, and local levels can encourage building owners to make energy efficiency upgrades and install rooftop solar projects that together cut energy use, lower energy bills, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

The building, designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, will use (not surprisingly) Cradle to Cradle Certified materials and feature rooftop greenhouses to help reduce wind loads as well as provide food production for the local community.

Such plans aim to help cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adopt low emission development trajectories, as well as adapt to the impacts of climate change and build local climate resilience.

Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.

They should link preparations for near - term disasters and long - term climate change; meld activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience; involve multiple stakeholder groups and scientists in the planning process; focus on protecting the most vulnerable; enhance local credit worthiness and management skills; and look outward by joining city networks.

The garden has been reworked and now includes a greenhouse and kitchen garden where Sean grows his vegetables, together with an orchard and a swimming pool with a pool house, built with the local barn style very much in mind.