Sentences with phrase «environment by planting»

The First Lady urged Kenyans to support initiatives by GBM to conserve the environment by planting more trees for prosperity.

We also give back to the environment by planting a tree for every item we make and are passionate about supporting local industry by being ethically produced and 100 % Australian Made.

Not exact matches

A later link, also supplied by Syngenta, is advanced crop protection products to help plants produce more food with minimum damage to the environment.

By contrast, most manufacturers operate in a low - growth environment where they must do «a million things a little better» to excel, such as reduce scrap rates and improve plant productivity.

There I was fascinated by the incredibly unique culture and environment: Did you know that 80 % of the plants and animals found in Madagascar don't exist anywhere else on the planet?

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

Its status is thus analogous to that of a plant, which has no regnant occasion and yet does have a structure which is the necessary environment for the intensities achieved by its member occasions.

Biologists have, since pre-evolutionary days, been fascinated by instances of structural parallelisms in not closely related animals and plants that exploit similar environments in similar ways.

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

The article also demonstrated the need for proper certification and testing in the single serve coffee market: The PurPod100 is certified by the Biodegradable Products Institute * (BPI) and meets ASTM International ¹ s Standard D6868 for compostability **, which means that it can disintegrate within an established period of time, produce compost that enables plant growth, and is safe for the environment.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

All plants must also, by law, maintain written Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures to maintain the cleanliness and sanitation in food processing environment.

Eric Gall, IFOAM EU Policy Manager, added: «It is time for the European Commission to act in line with the precautionary principle to protect the environment and consumers by confirming that plants and animals genetically modified with new technologies will at least be regulated like existing GMOs, and be subject to rigorous risk assessment, traceability and labelling, which are cornerstones of EU environmental and food policies».

A new Great British Food Unit has been established to turbo charge UK food exports and support industry growth plants, like its target of increasing manufactured food exports to # 6 billion ($ 7.8 bn) by 2020, according to UK environment secretary Elizabeth Truss.

By respecting the natural capacity of plants, animals and the landscape, organic agriculture aims to optimize quality in all aspects of agriculture and the environment.

In contrast, other farming methods try hard to condition the environment of the plants for optimal growing conditions by using a wide range of inputs.

Additional keywords: crop improvement, crop modelling, G × E, genotype by environment interaction, plant breeding, trait simulation.

Natural materials, interior colors inspired by nature and planters filled with Zen rock gardens and live plants further draw nature into the work environment.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

Tree Planted By the Stream in Duluth, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Help your child learn to appreciate the beauty of the environment around them and all the resources it provides by planting a garden or taking nature walks.

Climate change amplifies existing risks to our natural resources by forcing plants and animals to adapt rapidly to a changing environment.

In his summary of findings, Dr. Stopford stated, «Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment being generated both by man - made activities (such as coal - fired power plants) and by natural phenomenon (such as volcanoes).

The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the eEnvironment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the environmentenvironment.

Inspired by her work outdoors with children, in 2007, Laurie began to directly advocate for the environment, becoming a water advocate on the Rockland Water Coalition and opposing the proposed desalination plant at Haverstraw Bay on the Hudson River.

The increase and improvement of such facilities consisting of the following projects: (i) Waste Water Treatment Plant disinfection system at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,200,000; (ii) baseline Waste Water Treatment Plant projects at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,300,000; and (iii) inflow / infiltration pilot project and reduction program improvements at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,000,000; all as more fully described in the report and estimate of cost prepared by the County Engineers (Erie County Department of Environment and Planning) which has been filed with the County Legislature and which has been approved by the Board of Managers of said District on June 21, 2016 (the «Report»).

It Isn't Just the Ambiance by Heather Sevener, 16 April 2004 Although Ph.D. candidate Heather Sevener enjoyed learning about the evolution of plant development and was happy in an academic environment, she couldn't stand being at the bench.

The report was commissioned by India environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who earlier this year had imposed an indefinite moratorium on the release of brinjal engineered to make the Bt toxin that helps the plant resist insect pests.

«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.

By planting the same plant species and genotypes in different environments, scientists can identify which ones perform best and are most likely to survive changing conditions.

A new prototype soft robot takes inspiration from plants by growing to explore its environment.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients occur naturally in the environment and are needed by plants and animals to grow, but too much of any of them is harmful.

The agency, tasked with protecting the state's environment and public health, denied air quality permits for two 700 - megawatt, coal - fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric for Holcomb, a municipality in the southwestern corner of the state.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Knowing how to grow plants in environments degraded by climate change will be crucial to feeding an exploding human population.

Plant growth is strongly influenced by the environment: stems grow up towards the sun, while roots grow down under the influence of gravity — an effect called gravitropism.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

Also, desirable native plants that live under water could be crowded out by crested floatingheart, which would create a hostile environment for native aquatic animals.

«Our work provides the first real - world experimental evidence that these natural enemies of plants can play a dramatic role in lowering ecosystems» tipping point by killing drought - weakened vegetation and preventing plants from recovering,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

A report assessing the plant's risks was released a year ago, drawing some 700 comments that were reviewed by the Ministry of Environment's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC).

Roll Up Your Sleeves The Clean Up the World campaign, supported by the United Nations Environment Program, helps to coordinate volunteers to plant trees, recycle and participate in many Earth - friendly activities.

The study, involving 64 wastewater treatment plants across Switzerland, was commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

Most of the solar energy that saturates desert environments gets lost, assimilated by the few plants that can survive in such a hostile climate.

A team from La Trobe University's School of Life Sciences, led by Dr Richard Peters, worked with academics from Monash University's Faculty of IT to create, using 3D animation, a series of varied environmental settings and weather conditions, comprising different plant environments and wind conditions, to quantify how lizard displays are affected by this variation.

By manipulating TaR1 protein levels in wheat, either by conventional breeding or genetic modification in plants grown in laboratory controlled environments, the researchers demonstrated that they could activate the plant's defences earlieBy manipulating TaR1 protein levels in wheat, either by conventional breeding or genetic modification in plants grown in laboratory controlled environments, the researchers demonstrated that they could activate the plant's defences earlieby conventional breeding or genetic modification in plants grown in laboratory controlled environments, the researchers demonstrated that they could activate the plant's defences earlier.

«The fungi may have found a good environment inside the insect and then they would have established in the new host by host - jumping from plants to insects,» said Araujo.

Published Dec. 18, 2017 in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

Published December 18, 2017 issue in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.