Sentences with phrase «community waste project»

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He is dedicated to addressing our growing global waste crisis and founded FullCycle Energy LP to finance projects that convert our costly environmental problem into clean, valuable fuel to power communities around the world.

«British Columbians work hard for their money and want to see it help their communities, but the B.C. Liberals are wasting it on failed pet projects and mismanagement.»

In 2001, he launched another social venture, The Campus Kitchens Project, aimed at scaling our approach nationally by engaging college students in recovering wasted food from dining halls that they could use in preparing meals for their own community.

On Friday, the center will release a report by Kober arguing that Manhattan's job centers and New Jersey's bedroom communities are so inextricably linked, so co-dependent and so integral to the region's economy that New York and New Jersey should waste no time waiting on the Trump administration to follow through on an Obama - era commitment to split the cost of the new, $ 13 billion tunnel project, known as Gateway.

Since five communities in the Hudson Valley path of the Pilgrim Pipeline project have passed resolutions opposing it, further review by New York's Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation is a waste of resources, he said.

Sitting at a meeting with one or more of them is excruciating to see the utter waste of tax payer $ on people and projects totally disconnected from any real community initiative.

The project will fund municipal master plans for consortium communities along with solid waste and solar ordinance studies.

Although SEC filings would no longer be required, communities could still learn something about its waste management and production practices because the company would need to provide information for various kinds of environmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental Integrity Project.

All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for resource extraction — or waste disposal.This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities in the face of various «development» or waste dumping projects.

By telling residents how disposable chopsticks will be recycled into paper material, how aluminum cans will be sold for 155 yen, and how glasses and ceramics will be crushed and used in construction projects, the Zero Waste Academy is involving them in the process and creating a community around waste disposal.

All the waste used in the project (it takes about 6500 filled bottles to build a two classroom school) is collected from the local community, and surrounding areas.

Previous shortlisted projects include a Dragons» Den style competition; a Global Maths Project; a project that raises awareness about food waste and sustainability while working with local businesses to provide free meals for school children; and a student - run newspaper which encourages everyone in the school community to think critically about the world arounProject; a project that raises awareness about food waste and sustainability while working with local businesses to provide free meals for school children; and a student - run newspaper which encourages everyone in the school community to think critically about the world arounproject that raises awareness about food waste and sustainability while working with local businesses to provide free meals for school children; and a student - run newspaper which encourages everyone in the school community to think critically about the world around them.

Fuel for School began as a partnership between the Real Junk Food Project and Richmond Hill Primary School in Hunslet with the aim of removing hunger as a barrier to learning, highlighting the importance of nutrition and wellbeing in learning, and raising awareness of the vast amounts of wasted (yet perfectly edible) food in our communities.

Over five hundred schools have participated in a competition to find the UK's best upcycling project as part of Waste Week 2017, which aims to raise awareness amongst school communities on the importance of reducing waste.

In Trail Adventours your destination is not just an adventure, it supports local guides, communities and waste - projects.

The project titled MAiZE demonstrated the power of art making and community collaboration while also engaging visitors in a dialogue about plastic waste, food choices and environmental stewardship.

by Deborah McNamara on September 9, 2014 0 advice for changemakers advice for community organizers Betty Shelley how to lighten environmental impact how to live more sustainably how to reduce waste reduce your waste project

Scenic View was the third dairy methane project in Michigan, and was purposely oversized to allow it to accept waste from other nearby dairies and from the community.

The dairies have excess capacity in their digesters, they take organic waste from several restaurants and grocery stores in the local community, and is an added benefit of the project.

paying for carbon reduction projects is often perceived favorably by green - minded consumers, and it's easier to tell a good story about innovative projects in disadvantaged communities than to focus on dry subjects such as incremental energy efficiency improvements or waste reduction strategies.

Ben Reynolds comments: «We are all familiar with allotments, and community gardens as features of the city landscape, but more often than not a lot of space is wasted, where with a little support we could see projects like this in the UK, where salad crops, vegetables and even fish are produced commercially within the city.»

With nearly 40 % of those investments — $ 199 billion — going to solar, wind farms, biomass, waste - to - energy plants and small hydro - power clean energy projects, it is evident that energy system «diversity» is vital for satisfying current community needs and to address shared concerns for the future.

This analytical document suggests that while the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been successful with mitigating the impacts of large - scale industrial projects, small - scale community - based projects, such as those in the waste management sector have been overlooked due to their low mitigation potential.

He currently coordinates the Master Composter / Recycler program, a community waste reduction and sustainability education project in Vancouver, WA.

Wind power is and will always be a special application high cost power source for isolated communities or government - subsidized showcase projects in very rich countries that can afford to WASTE resources on such ridiculous ventures.

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The water project, which was first proposed by Mao Zedong in 1952 and approved in 2001, has drawn fire from the scientific and environmentalist community, which say it will waste billions of dollars and damage the environment without addressing root problems.