Sentences with phrase «by millions of acres»

And don't forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills.

Surrounded by millions of acres of forest and mountains, guest teachers share diverse offerings that encompass a spectrum of specialties, including yoga therapy, meditation, mindfulness, healing arts, and much more.

Not exact matches

• Pilotworks, New York City - based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $ 13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

Kelly hopes that in the next 10 years he can inspire enough homeowners and businesses to come on board that 50 percent of America's 40.5 million acres of lawn will be switched to organic care, reducing by half the 3 million tons of synthetic fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides used annually.

Plans called for pontoon boats to carry guests around a seven - acre, 19 - million - litre lagoon where they would be attacked by seven - metre long mechanical sharks capable of moving six metres per second.

The company purchased the 80 - acre parcel once owned by the founding family of Fetzer Vineyards for $ 3.6 million in 2017.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

Infosys President Ravi Kumar said the Bangalore, India - based company will start the $ 245 million, 141 - acre campus project by building a $ 35 million training center at the now - vacant site of the former Indianapolis International Airport terminal.

At that point, Tesla wanted a minimum of 90 acres, expandable to 300 acres by 2018, or an existing 1.7 million - square - foot building that could also be dramatically enlarged.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

Though described by many as an operational wizard, few believed that Cook possessed Jobs's knack for recognizing consumers» future wants (often before they did) and his ability to act as technology tastemaker, convincing millions that beauty equalled no buttons and acres of pricey brushed aluminium.

As of this week, more than seven million acres of American land have been scorched by wildfires this year.

With the next - largest footprint is the uCity Square proposal for 6.5 million square feet of retail, residential, office, and lab space on 27 acres of existing buildings and vacant land owned by Wexford and the nonprofit University City Science Center along and north of Market Street between 34th and 39th Streets.

The most compact of the three is the Schuylkill Yards plan for 8 million square feet of offices and tech workshops, stores, and residential towers on 14 acres owned by Brandywine and Drexel near 30th Street.

Dole owns 25,000 acres of non-core land in Oahu valued by Dole at $ 500 million or $ 20,000 per acre.

The deal for an 18 - acre block owned by the City of Brantford, is expected to close on March 28, and represents an additional investment of about C$ 2.2 million.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

According to Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute, Argentina alone has 4 million acres of irrigated land already damaged by salinization.

Together, they build in physical world that millions of children over the past century have discovered on a page — the Hundred Acre Wood, populated by Winnie (short for Winnipeg, the origin of the imaginary bear) and friends.

Sets goals of reducing honeybee colony losses during the winter to no more than 15 % within ten years; increasing Eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million occupying approximately 15 acres in Mexico by 2020; and restore or enhance 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years

To date, more than 2.5 million acres of Central American forest have been sacrificed to coffee farms — mainly to feed demand by large corporate coffee brands like Nescafe.

The goal of 250,000 organic acres will bring General Mills closer to its objective of reaching $ 1 billion in net sales from natural and organic products by 2019, nearly doubling the current total of $ 675 million net from organic General Mills products.

To this day Sambazon is the ONLY Fair Trade Certified açaí (which is a lot more in depth and different than 1 % For the Planet and many pay to play certifications other brands have), and is the only vertically integrated company on the market, ensuring the highest quality, and premium açaí out there, and has protected millions of acres of Amazon Rainforest to this day, by providing 20,000 family farmers with employment from sustainable harvesting of açaí fruit.

The reserve, established by the Guatemalan government in 1990, spans nearly 5.2 million acres (2.1 million hectares) and also includes the ancient Maya city of Tikal.

Since 2002, CSWA's Code Workbook has been used by 1,800 vineyard and winery organizations to self - assess their operations, representing 72 percent of California's winegrape acreage (389,375 acres) and 74 percent of its case production (189 million cases).

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

Or, to look at it another way, the PDA isn't so much running a marketplace as it is a theme park, a complex economy, and a tiny city all rolled into nine acres of cobblestone streets visited by 10 million people a year.

Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. has ownership in over 10,000 acres of planted pistachios and currently has the capacity to process over 110 million pounds of pistachios owned by Setton and its grower partners.

The park district last month announced plans to build a $ 2 million public golf course on 237 acres owned by the Illinois Department of Corrections outside the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill.

At issue was a proposal by Oakdale Community Church to create a charitable remainder trust for the Hartsing family, owners of the 117 - acre farm who stand to gain $ 5 million from the sale of the land if the Park District's bond issue passes.

They think they are the governing body of the Chicago Park District, appointed by Mayor Washington and confirmed by the city council to have complete authority over the park system's 7,300 acres, its 3,400 employees and its $ 320 million annual budget.

Mass Audubon continues to close in on its goal of raising $ 3.6 million by June 30 to secure land for a new wildlife sanctuary at Tidmarsh Farms, a former 600 - acre cranberry operation in Plymouth.

Consultants hired by the state have suggested that 18 acres of land off New Scotland Avenue near Albany Medical Center would be the best site for a proposed new $ 750 million Wadsworth Center, the state's public health laboratory.

According to the research team led by Columbia University professor William Eimicke, Upstate would keep six acres to build a $ 22 million biotechnology center and COR would develop eight acres with $ 230 million worth of offices, apartments and shops.

The larger portion of the Oneida claim, to the 6 - million - acre (24,000 km2) tract, was rejected by the Second Circuit in 1988 on the grounds that the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 had neither the authority nor the intent to limit the acquisition of Indian lands within the borders of US states.

What's the plan for Hallock State Park, the 314 - acre property north of Sound Avenue in Northville that was purchased by New York State from KeySpan Energy for $ 16 million more than 15 years ago?

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

By Joe Lanane The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation will not pay the first $ 5 million for 89 acres of Milwaukee County property until receiving a two - year extension for the second payment.

The Natural Heritage Trust provided $ 2 million from the proceeds of a donation by the Trust for Public Land, which helped orchestrate the purchase of 525 acres from KeySpan Energy to create the park while returning 300 adjacent acres to active agricultural production.

Almost a quarter of the state, about 7.2 million acres, is classified by the federal Department of Agriculture as farmland.

If selected by the state commission that will award four casino licenses this fall, the company plans to build a $ 670 million, 890,000 - square - foot project on a 70 - acre site near the junction of the Thruway and Interstate 84.

The company agreed to pay about $ 2.8 million for 28 acres of land controlled by the city.

The OSI also helped finance another major wilderness acquisition in the Adirondacks, lending $ 25 million to the Nature Conservancy to buy 161,000 acres of timberlands formerly owned by Finch, Pruyn & Co., a paper company, in 2007.

Story number 1: The current U.S. population of red imported fire ants that infests millions of acres across southern states was founded by no more than 25 fire ant queens.

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.

More than 10.1 million acres of U.S. forests — private, state and federal — were scorched last year, marking 2015 as the most extensive and expensive fire season on record, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Forest Service.

Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire.

The $ 23.7 million solar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Over the past decade, mountain pine beetles, boosted by mild winters, have devastated tens of millions of acres of forest across the American and Canadian West, and summer droughts have destroyed many more.

Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre - feet, about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, according to new research from the University of Arizona and Colorado State University.