Sentences with phrase «demand local action»

SAN FRANCISCO, CA: The global challenges of our time demand local action now: reinvigorated community involvement, renewed civic spirit, and YOU!

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«Local residents are demanding these types of actions,» said Commissioner Michael Udine, whose district includes Parkland.

Local officials, environmental advocates and residents demanded that the EPA take more action to clean up the Hudson River from contamination by General Electric during a meeting in Saratoga Springs last night.

Pat Purcell, a top official of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, said the organization sent Mr. Levy a letter a week ago demanding he refund the $ 5,200 its political action committee gave him over the last two years.

It's also, incidentally, local press release gold: «MP demands action from Government on cormorants in Pagham» or «Furious MP says «Enough is enough» to Minister.»

Also at 11 a.m., Rep. Michael Grimm will join local residents to demand action from city officials to release award letters and funding to people whose homes and businesses were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.

WHEREAS, responding to the effects of climate change demands international, national, and local action;

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

a moment in troubled times when a Congress came together and acted on overwhelming research from experts, demand from voters, and actions taken by state and local leaders across the country to support the development of children from birth to age 5.»

Kris Perry, executive director of the First Five Years Fund says that ESSA represents a historic gain for early childhood education, «a moment in troubled times when a Congress came together and acted on overwhelming research from experts, demand from voters, and actions taken by state and local leaders across the country to support the development of children from birth to age 5.»

«If any local school had 20 percent of its families withdraw their kids from the school in the first six months, I think the public would be demanding immediate action and intervention and assuming there's something really wrong in that school,» he said.

State legislatures, state boards of education, local boards of education, unions, and countless other organizations demand action to correct the real and imagined failings of our nation's public education system.

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If parents and teachers across Connecticut fully understood how the education frauds, including those in Connecticut, have set up our children for failure, parents would be opting their children out of these unfair tests, going before local boards of education to demand immediate action and calling upon their legislators to adopt legislation requiring Connecticut to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Consortium.

The People's Climate March is a leaderless and diverse action group that demands change each year from a local level up to an international level.

We must act where we are, and make that action part of a global wave of local plans and clear plans and demands to facilitate the grand global renewable transformation.

The Challenge will run from January through May and will leverage gamification to motivate youth competitors to take actions like: having a climate conversation with a parent, generating and sharing viral content on social media, or showing up with friends to local legislative offices to demand climate action from elected leadership.

With the Trump Administration rolling back climate protections, expanding fossil fuel development, ramming through dirty infrastructure, and withdrawing the U.S. from its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, the People's Delegation and the organizations involved are taking action to protect communities and isolate the Administration by demanding a fossil free future and real climate action on the local level.

For others, we can join a green team dedicated to taking action, create a new sustainability council, convene a neighborhood meeting to find local solutions, pressure congress, or demand more responsibility from the oil companies we support with our dollars.

On January 25, 2017, we, along with dozens of organizations from across British Columbia, sent a letter to each and every local government in the province — asking the Mayors and Councils to take action to demand... [more]

Such action would take the form of «climate accountability letters» sent by the local governments, demanding fossil companies to take responsibility for the harm their product are causing, but we are also asking the local governments to consider bringing a class action lawsuit — a joint lawsuit on behalf of all BC local governments — against some of the world's largest fossil fuel cartels.

On January 25, 2017, we, along with dozens of organizations from across British Columbia, sent a letter to each and every local government in the province — asking the Mayors and Councils to take action to demand that the fossil fuel industry pay its fair share for the costs that our communities are suffering from climate change.