Sentences with phrase «community near their plant»

They had a huge celebration in Upstate NY inviting the entire community near their plant, their farmers, and their employees.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Families, couples, and solo attendees come from near and far for the exciting roster of guest lecturers (Yummy Plants founder Rebecca Gilbert has been a featured speaker), the unparalleled community - building opportunities, information booths and lively veg marketplace, and — of course — they come to relish the gourmet, plant - based cuisine.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer faulted the prevalence of sewer treatment plants, waste transfer stations and depots in poorer communities on long - standing city policy to place them near water.

Democratic Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther represents communities near the CPV plant, including Middletown.

In the impoverished communities near Georgia's coal plants, as in many communities around the country, the health benefits of nixing coal aren't as obvious as the lost economic opportunities.

Located between Greenland and Russia, Svalbard experienced a near - complete loss of its vegetation during the last ice age and was quite sparse even 10,000 years ago, but today it is home to a thriving plant community.

During the New Year's flood, roughly 7,000 buildings near St. Louis were damaged, two interstate highways were closed for several days, the community of Valley Park was evacuated, and two Metropolitan Sewer District plants were swamped so that sewage was dumped directly into the water.

They reconstructed changes in the plant and animal communities that were present at the site then — before it was submerged — and identified DNA sequences that matched Near Eastern wheat strains.

With further improvements of the sequencing technology and increased throughput of the PromethION sequencer we aim to generate near - finished assemblies of large and repetitive plant genomes and cost - efficiently perform de novo sequencing of large collections of microbial pathogens and the microbial communities that surround our crops.

United States About Blog PLI raises up missional leaders to carry the Gospel of Jesus and plant the seeds of God's Kingdom across our communities both near and far.

United States About Blog PLI raises up missional leaders to carry the Gospel of Jesus and plant the seeds of God's Kingdom across our communities both near and far.

Safety is a core value of the oil and natural gas industry — safety for workers, communities near active operations and the environment, from protecting plants and animals to reducing emissions for cleaner air.

This decision puts the communities near Long Phu 1 one step closer to stopping this coal plant that would leave their land, water, and public health in ruin.

All three cities filed complaints with the California Public Utilities Commission at the proposal because their constituents believed that cheap, green power was going to eliminate conventional, polluting power plants near their communities.

But, expanding California's cap - and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants, oil and gas extraction sites and other high - emission industries that are the main cause of local and global climate disruption

Growing up near a coal plant, she experienced firsthand the pollution and dust from coal operations and witnessed many people in her community develop cancer.

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

The analysis identifies which units are no longer economic and may face retirement, features four snapshots of communities located near coal plants, and cautions states against a potentially risky wholesale shift away from coal to natural gas.

«What happens to the remainder of the coal fleet could have significant implications not only for the millions of people still living in communities near coal - fired power plants, but also for people living further away who will still feel the impacts of pollution from these plants,» said Julie McNamara, energy analyst at UCS and report co-author.

In this case, however, for the disproportionately poor and minority communities who live near coal - burning power plants, our view is that more regulation, rather than less, may be required.

Frontline communities — those of lower income and those of color — get it the worst, as they're most likely to be near a power plant or a highway.

The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal plants in the United States have found that people of color and low - income communities are disproportionately more burdened by this pollution than any other segment of the population.

Focus on the health impacts; better inform the public about the severe health problems that plague communities near coal plants.

AL: In India, where you go to places where communities that are resisting, especially near coal - fired power plants that have had a big wave of resistance in the last five years, people are so excited to talk about their struggles.

These communities are willing to make big bets for the sake of business activity — in 2014, Nevada approved $ 1.25 billion in incentives for Tesla's battery plant near Reno — but they are also wary of a double whammy to taxpayers if the big plans don't pan out.