Sentences with phrase «city environmental programs»

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Greencorps Chicago is a City of Chicago green industry job training program, run in partnership with WRD Environmental, for individuals with barriers to employment.

«The City Council is progressive and very supportive of [waste] diversion programs,» said Jill Fosselman, environmental services manager for Santa Clarita.

Highlights include establishment of a trail system that is mostly wheelchair accessible; programs reaching out to 40 schools and 230,000 residents within a two - mile radius; and, in partnership with the city of Boston, creation of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center, which models environmentally sound building practices.

«We're continuing to make our case on the economic and environmental benefits of a polystyrene foam recycling program for small business owners and the City of New York, and we're confident we will have the support to pass Intro 1480,» she said in response to a series of questions from POLITICO New York on the spending.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday that its latest air monitoring program near the Peace Bridge shows the air people breathe in adjacent neighborhoods beset by high asthma rates is comparable to other similarly sized cities and high - traffic urban areas.

Position Description: The Riverkeeper Ambassador Program is a community - oriented, grassroots, environmental program designed to raise awareness about the needs of the Hudson River and it's tributaries, and the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Program is a community - oriented, grassroots, environmental program designed to raise awareness about the needs of the Hudson River and it's tributaries, and the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson program designed to raise awareness about the needs of the Hudson River and it's tributaries, and the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley.

Noble, the city's environmental program specialist, presented himself as «a Democrat with a vision for Kingston's future,» which sounds remarkably like Gallo's own campaign theme.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«There are no deliberations or work product from this group,» said Kate Hudson, director of the New York City Watershed Program for the environmental group Riverkeeper and a former regional attorney for DEC Hudson.

Noble serves as the city's environmental program operations specialist.

Nevertheless, «the first CCS project that is done badly is the last CCS project that will be done,» warns Mark Brownstein, New York City — based managing director of business partnerships in the climate and air program at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«The Clean Heat Program has made important strides toward improving the air quality in New York City,» says first author Daniel Carrión, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The [New York City Department of Environmental Protection] has already started that with the Bluebelt Program [preserving wetlands for storm water management in Staten Island].

One area to watch: how she steers BioWatch — a DHS program to develop and deploy environmental sensors in cities to get early warning of an aerosolized bioterror attack.

«This means people will have to get analog - to - digital converter boxes for their TVs, or they'll be putting their old TVs out by the curb,» says Lloyd Hicks, waste prevention program advisor at INFORM, Inc., an environmental research organization in New York City.

For average citizens like Susan, New York City offers only one publicly funded treatment option: the WTC Environmental Health Center (WTC - EHC) at Bellevue Hospital, a new program launched in January 2007 that will expand to treat about 6,000 New Yorkers with 9 / 11 - related health problems.

«There is always going to be a dirtiest city,» says Joel Kaufman, MD, director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program at the University of Washington, in Seattle.

Irvin describes how incorporating three national environmental education programs — Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, and Project WET — into Oil City's curriculum and instruction revitalized the school.

The honors students at our school were bused in to participate in the school's magnet science and math programs, and we soon discovered their environmental club projects were focused on the parts of the city where they lived and not the neighborhood where our school was and where we lived.

Co-sponsored with The Critical Social and Environmental Psychology and The Urban Education Programs, NYCORE, (In) equality Matters Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and The Urban Research - Based Action Network (URBAN).

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

Plaintiffs are environmental protection groups with a common goal to prevent defendant City of Los Angeles (the City) from implementing a program to trap, neuter and release feral cats to the outdoors without conducting an adequate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 etenvironmental protection groups with a common goal to prevent defendant City of Los Angeles (the City) from implementing a program to trap, neuter and release feral cats to the outdoors without conducting an adequate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 etenvironmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 etEnvironmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq. (CEQA).

The Marin Community Foundation has provided funding to support environmental education programs with students from the Bayside Elementary / Martin Luther King, Jr Academy and a partnership with Marin Grassroots to engage Marin City residents in the planning and design process.

In the Fall of 1984, Maine, Houston, and City Manager Mark Lindberg gathered interested environmental agencies who felt that the program would do more than law enforcement to protect the rock.

From Mayor to City Manager, the idea of an environmental education agency at the rock began to form and in the summer of 1985 a pilot program was launched.

About The Surge Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.

«Those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases», reads the official press release.

Pratt Institute's Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD) will present lectures on environmental justice in New York, climate change and preservation, case studies of New York City development projects, and on construction and facilities...

Today, as one of 33 City - owned cultural institutions, Wave Hill provides an oasis of serenity and offers programs in Horticulture, Environmental Education, Woodland Management and the Visual and Performing Arts.

Atlas comes alive through programming: Beginning in May 2016, the Queens Museum presents a series of public talks, walks, and urban adventures led by the essay writers from the book, artists, and other imaginative thinkers addressing topics including water and power, linguistic diversity in Queens, walking as an embodied act, the conjoined histories of environmental and financial disaster in Lower Manhattan, wilderness in the City, and Latino radio in NYC.

During the academic year, these students accomplished a lot: they explored different natural areas throughout New York City and the surrounding areas, met scientists in various environmental fields, built upon their data analysis and GIS knowledge from the previous summer in the program and more!

Group Exhibitions 2018 Stretch / Pulled / Inked, Impact Arts, as part of the Glasgow International, Glasgow (upcoming) Glasshouse, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow (upcoming) 2017 Amazing Perplexity, Curated by Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher and Alevtina Kakhidze, Residents Group Exhibition of FACE — Artist Residence Program in Kiev 2016 Factually Real Illusions, curated by Lorna McDowell, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of Art, London Semi-Gloss, Semi-Permeable, Glasgow International Festival 2015 International Women's Contemporary Art Forum — A Crossing Section of Art, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow Abstraction from Architecture, Edinburgh Print Studio Hold, Sway, Generator Projects, Dundee 2013 Editionshow, Chert, Berlin You're my wife now, Infernoesque project space, Berlin Every Day, GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2012 Tintenfisch, CNEAI =, Paris, organized by Chert & Motto in the frame of Berlin - Paris exchange 2011 Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Times Square Gallery of Hunter College, City University of New York Annuale, Edinburgh 2010 Drinnen & Draussen, Chert, Berlin A man, some chickens and one corner, with Petrit Halilaj and Heike Kabisch, Berlin — Paris exchange, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, with Chert, Berlin 2009 Spacioux, curated by Michela Arfiero, Paola Gallio, Daniela Lotta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan Motto & Chert & Roses, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius 2008 You can't hide your love forever, LH Gallery, Paris And So It Goes, Art news Projects, Berlin MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow Flock, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 MFA Interim show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Devil Blue Dress, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow 2005 Tercet, Intermedia, King Street, Glasgow 2004 Pieces, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow

At the William Penn Foundation, a leading philanthropy with an endowment greater than $ 2 billion, she was responsible for numerous initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges in America's fifth largest city and for designing programs in education, public space, the arts and the environment.

Prior to blogging, Zach received a bachelor's degree in sociology and environmental studies from Florida's honors college, New College of Florida, and then a master's degree in city & regional planning from UNC — Chapel Hill, the top graduate program in the nation for land use planning.

IWC 64 in Panama City follows closely upon the launch at Rio +20 of GEO - 5, the Global Environmental Report of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Currently the Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United.

Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

While state director of The Nature Conservancy, she helped preserve Sterling Forest, and in earlier posts with the Port Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation, she implemented groundbreaking environmental programs in NEnvironmental Conservation, she implemented groundbreaking environmental programs in Nenvironmental programs in New York City.

Sept. 14, 2010 — New York, NY — This week Starbucks Coffee Company, with Action Carting Environmental Services Inc., launched a paper cup recycling pilot program at 86 of its New York City stores.

This week Starbucks Coffee Company, with Action Carting Environmental Services Inc., launched a paper cup recycling pilot program at 86 of its New York City stores.

Sponsored by an association of cities, including Melbourne and Sydney, the CitySwitch Green Office program has fostered collaboration and leadership among a growing network of business leaders across Australia who are committed to environmental excellence.

Among them: the Energy Star program, which aims to improve energy efficiency and save consumers money; infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages and the Mexico border; a grant program that helps cities and states combat air pollution; and an office that focuses on environmental justice issues.

Global Green USA's signature programs include greening affordable housing, schools, neighborhoods, and cities as well as rebuilding communities — such as New Orleans and areas of New York and New Jersey — that have suffered from the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, and environmental degradation.

LA Business Council Mary Leslie and Brad Cox accepting California Environmental Leadership This honor recognizes the extraordinary leadership of the Los Angeles Business Council to lead a campaign to establish a 600 MW solar feed in tariff for the City of LA, to aggressively oppose the Dirty Energy Prop 23 initiative; host an annual Sustainability Summit, create a report on multifamily rooftop solar and social equity in LA to create and retain jobs and reduce owner and tenant utility costs; and to lead business advocacy for instrumental support of the adoption of LA's green building program.

College Campus Roadshow The Hemp History Week College Campus Roadshow will travel 9,000 miles through fifteen states, sampling leading hemp products on over thirty campuses in seven major cities across the Midwest, Southwest and West Coast, while engaging students at agricultural colleges with educational programs, petition signings and film screenings on the economic, environmental, agricultural and nutritional benefits of industrial hemp.

In 2011, Solar One's Workforce program provided green jobs training to 695 chronically unemployed and underemployed individuals from environmental justice areas of New York City.

is a New York City - based not - for - profit direct - action environmental organization that uses events and educational programs to promote more sustainable, less toxic cities.