Sentences with phrase «dozens of new community»

Dozens of new community groups and nonprofits have sprung up in recent years to support amateur science.

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Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

His cold calls to dozens of dealerships were rejected until he was finally able to convince one — Vickar Community Chevrolet in Winnipeg — that his new technology could actually help both it and its customers.

Together, we have worked to add over 10,000 new homesites across dozens of new Lennar communities in multiple markets and with a lot more in the pipeline.

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

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

♦ One 5 / 9 - bushel box of vegetables (containing 7 - 10 items) and / or one dozen free - range eggs weekly or every other week throughout the growing season ♦ A weekly newsletter including pictures, stories and news from the field, recipes, and cooking and preservation tips (here are a few sample newsletters: June, July, August, September, October) ♦ Invitations to on - farm events and news about the local food community ♦ The opportunity to purchase other items, like storage and canning vegetables, for delivery with your weekly box ♦ New this year: A free gift for folks who purchase $ 300 or more!

Albany lawmakers voted late last night to join more than two - dozen other New York communities in opposing a controversial oil pipeline linking the Port of Albany to northern New Jersey.

Earlier at the Sidney Albert Jewish Community Center in Albany, Cuomo said the recent bomb threat scares that have led to the evacuation of dozens of JCC's in New York and around the country are not only «ugly» and «immoral,» but illegal.

But on Saturday morning, as dozens of community members packed into a classroom to hear a presentation from the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund about the nonprofit's hotly contested plans for the relocation and renovation of the Galley Ho restaurant, the mood was more combative than cheerful.

HARLEM — Dozens of New York City politicians and leaders vowed on Sunday to lobby on behalf of the community that reelected Rep. Charles Rangel, demanding the shamed Harlem politician not be censured.

Jen has worked to make utility costs more affordable, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), along with dozens of community members and legislators, will hold a demonstration urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to save Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

ALBANY, NY (01/19/2017)(readMedia)-- Dozens of community activists joined members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) under a grey sky to protest the closing of the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

Jen has worked to bring down utility costs, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

City lawmakers voted late Monday night to join more than two - dozen other New York communities in opposing a controversial oil pipeline linking the Port of Albany to northern New Jersey.

Nearly two dozen members of the Saugerties chapter of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a bi-state group that has spearheaded opposition to the project in communities along the proposed route in New York and New Jersey, showed up at the meeting.

This system already exists in New York City, and it has enabled dozens of grassroots community advocates - including librarians, teachers and tenant leaders - to challenge corporate - backed candidates and win election to city office.

More than two dozen community boards have rejected the proposals, reigniting questions about de Blasio's ability to persuade New Yorkers of even his most central policy plans.

Now that same - sex marriage has taken effect in New York, more than a dozen lawmakers and elected officials are holding a forum tonight on the future of the LGBT community's political obstacles.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a December 4 statement, more than a dozen major groups from New York's LGBT advocacy community came together to voice their «outrage over the lack of indictment in the Eric Garner case.»

ReInvent Albany, Common Cause and the New York Public Interest Research Group, said they were joining with dozens of environmental and community groups in calling for a 45 - day public comment period because of the «magnitude of the potential costs.»

Dozens of communities in the Marcellus Shale region across New York have already voted to ban fracking.

Also at 11 a.m., Dozens of community - based supportive housing providers, mental health advocates, patients and their families from across the state will launch the new Bring It Home campaign, urging the state to invest in community - based mental health housing.

Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, acting on the recommendations of his Council on Community Re-Entry and Reintegration, announced a dozen new initiatives that will make it easier for non-violent criminals to ease back into society and lead productive lives.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

«Unidad» means «united,» and people from a dozen Hispanic organizations will come together at this conference, along with a bipartisan group of state legislators, to discuss the needs, challenges and aspirations of the growing Hispanic community in New York and what can be done to increase their economic opportunities.»

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

A second coalition, called Growing Together New York, and joining dozens of labor, environmental and community groups, will focus more directly on opposing Mr. Cuomo's cuts, while also agitating for the extension of the income - tax surcharge.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

For the past few days, Liberia, which was recording dozens of Ebola cases daily was only battling with the last five confirmed Ebola cases, but that record is now on a slippery path as five new Ebola cases have been reported in the St. Paul Bridge Community in Montserrado County.»

Both men and women form this huge Jewish online dating community, and there are hundreds of new photo and video entries as well as dozens of new members joining the network each week, making this one of the best growing Jewish online communities.

Meetup hosts dozens of singles groups in the Bay Area, who host numerous activities throughout the week, ranging from hiking and other outdoor activities Meet new friends online in our friendly community.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

An advocacy organization that analyzed dozens of school districts» inaugural improvement plans under the state's new school funding law praised the level of community involvement but criticized the lack of clarity in the finished product.

Pulitzer Prize — winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half - dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust oNew York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half - dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust onew framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

Timothy Egan follows a half - dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

New York, NY — Tuesday, May 18, 2010 — The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals» first annual Adoptapalooza — a free, fun - filled community event featuring dozens of pets available for adoption — will take place in Washington Square Park on Saturday, May 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The recent excavation of dozens of copies of Atari games buried in the New Mexico desert served to validate an urban legend that had swirled about in the gaming community for years.

FEATURES ● Duel players from around the world in real - time and take their Trophies ● Earn chests to unlock rewards, collect powerful new cards and upgrade existing ones ● Destroy opponent's towers and win Crowns to earn epic Crown chests ● Build and upgrade your card collection with the Clash Royale Family along with dozens of your favorite Clash troops, spells and defenses ● Construct your ultimate Battle Deck to defeat your opponents ● Progress through multiple Arenas all the way to the top ● Form a Clan to share cards and build your very own battle community ● Challenge your Clanmates and friends to a private duel ● Learn different battle tactics by watching the best duels on TV Royale

Valve's original plan sparked a wave of clashing conflicts rooted in dozens of factors across the modding community, the Skyrim community, the developer community, and beyond, turning a previously well - known draw of PC games into a battleground for new ideas and established values.

Since discovering that characters in the PC edition of Street Fighter IV are reskinnable, the game's community has put out dozens of new costumes for players to download (Note: online opponents can not see your modified characters).

This creative «cabin - fevered» community of artists successfully produced dozens of new pieces each.

The group says it has helped more than a dozen communities in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Virginia draft and pass laws «that change the status of ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights - bearing entities.»

They come at a vital time because for every major city like New York or Paris moving huge amounts of money and using their political power to take on Big Oil, we need dozens of successful divestment campaigns on our campuses, and hundreds of grassroots organisers to win arguments in our communities.

«Interest and engagement in the industry is growing very quickly and we expect a dozen new states to consider creation of new community solar programs in 2017.

At 12 pm PST / 3 pm EST today, the NW Earth Institute will join dozens of other speakers for a live tweetathon where we'll engage directly with community members, faculty, students and higher education staff in conversation on #CleanEnergyU, a new opportunity to help campuses and communities engage in clean energy dialogues.

This weekend, Oil Change International's newest campaigner and I joined dozens of dedicated community leaders, climate movement allies and friends, and a couple thousand new friends in a march to the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California.

In the Better Together Update, we'll also have three community server partners that will be accessible from within the game, bringing dozens of new minigames for people to play with millions of other players.

He has also performed extensive community service with the Tulane / Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Ccommunity service with the Tulane / Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic CCommunity, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Ccommunity service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Charities.