Sentences with phrase «empowering local citizens»

Congratulations to Goldman Prize recipients Kimberly Wasserman and Ignace Schops on being selected to join Al Gore's Climate Leadership Corps, part of the Climate Reality Project — an organization that seeks to fight climate change by empowering local citizens to make a difference.

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It empowers CITIZENS on the local level to determine whether or not they wish to consolidate.
Empowering councillors at local authority and parish levels would make the link between citizens and representatives clearer, she suggests.
As an Ambassador of WE, Portman lends her time to the organization that empowers youth to remove barriers that prevent them from being active local and global citizens.
My friends, we have proven that our Department can support better education without creating huge bureaucracies, without intruding on local control, and by empowering communities and citizens to work together as partners in education.
As empowered citizens, members of the Portland Chapter talk with neighbors, friends, and local officials about how national climate action can help ensure a healthy future while strengthening the American economy.
By empowering communities to collect data from their local environment and contribute to an interactive, worldwide environmental database, the folks behind the Smart Citizen Kit are enabling a whole new level of participation from citizen scientists.
Grand juries consisted of 23 local citizens empowered to indict those suspected of crime, a function now performed by the magistracy.
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