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http://globelegislators.org/about-globe/24-history «GLOBE International was originally founded in 1989 by legislators from the US Congress, European Parliament, Japanese Diet and the Russian State Duma with the mission to respond to urgent environmental challenges through the development and advancement of legislation.

This master plan addresses the city's environmental challenges through a set of ambitious but achievable and measurable targets that put the city on the path to sustainability.

DC Bilingual Public Charter School, The Nature Conservancy and Lowe's address urban environmental challenges through school garden.

China's Green Brothers (John Romankiewicz and Zhao Xiangyu) are on a mission to expose the upside of China's environmental challenge through video podcasts.

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So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

Through process - driven research on financial and impact outcomes of investing and grant - making, Align enables its clients to use their resources to move the needle on the world's greatest environmental and social challenges by building investing and giving strategies that are aligned with its clients personal values.

We urge drinks manufacturers operating in Scotland and worldwide who believe the new initiative may apply to them to seek advice to clarify their environmental obligations and guide them through the challenges of product compliance.

«Through the collective efforts of our industry and the individual efforts of our member companies, we're leading the way and supporting consumers in finding modern - day solutions to environmental challenges throughout America.»

«I think many of us feel helpless in the face of environmental challenges, and it can be hard to know how to sort through the advice about what we can do to make a meaningful contribution to a cleaner, more sustainable, healthier world,» Paul says.

The Food Recovery Challenge is part of the EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program, which seeks to reduce the environmental impact of food and other widely - used everyday items through their entire life cycle, including how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled, and disposed.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Environmental challenges are best tackled through the markets and incentives, while the Tories» «radical school reform» plans mean «we are the true progressives now».

Yet Franz Litz, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, said the governor must go through a new rulemaking process with the state Department of Environmental Protection that could take time and prompt legal challenges.

Seeds from the same plant germinate at different times to hedge against environmental challenges that plants have faced through history.

Through iGEM, interdisciplinary teams of supervised students or community lab members throughout the world engineer genetic systems, using standardized biological parts, to tackle a broad variety of global synthetic biology challenges, from producing sustainable chemicals to detecting environmental contaminants.

Through the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge program, Thornton's team was awarded 85 million compute hours to improve the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) effort, a project sponsored by Earth System Modeling program within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

It is clear that humankind is moving through dramatic relational changes, as well as facing dire political, economic and environmental challenges to our existence.

Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and internationally, Hiroshi Komiyama analyzes the most pressing challenges to the attainment of sustainability of economically advanced nations and argues forcefully for Japan to lead them out of the present dilemma through active promotion of creative consumer and societal demand.

She has spoken at different humane society events on common cat behavior challenges, hosted group education seminars for the volunteers at Good Mews, and also hosted discussions for her colleagues through the IAABC on her most passionate topic, environmental enrichment for indoor cats.

His AP Environmental Studies class — and his involvement with invertebrate research in Lobos Creek through Project WISE (a Crissy Field Center program in partnership with Urban Watershed Project and Galileo)-- opened his eyes to the challenges facing natural ecosystems.

The Conservancy founded this program to advance the role of parks in addressing environmental and social challenges, including public health and climate change through innovation, civic engagement, and cross-sector collaboration.

Utilizing various environmental elements — such as height and warp pipes that can assist the player in traversing the battlefield — hundreds of brand new weapons, and the ability to level up various skills through the complex skill trees, this game proves to be a unique challenge.

There are 120 of them in total, and even though Link's arsenal of skills is shorthanded when compared to those of other Zelda games (he can only use bombs, employ magnetic powers to move metallic objects around, create ice pillars from water, and lock objects in place for a short while before they regain their movement), Nintendo was able to build plenty of clever and entertaining shrines, some of which whose challenge is not in their clearing, but in finding them or making them emerge through the solving of highly engaging environmental puzzles in the overworld itself.

That new environmental challenge alone added another layer of challenge, as I not only had to pay way more attention to the level as it was shifting and changing, but also had to be attentive to the timing and precision needed to make it through these more challenging obstacles.

Confluence highlights the environmental management challenges facing the Rio Grande and potential pathways to restoration through the viewpoint of eight professionals who have loved and worked along the river.

Through hand - drawn sketches, interactive sculpture, immersive video, and a lineup of more than 30 structural models at 1:500 scale, the exhibition gives insight into SOM's practice, past and present, as it seeks to address physical and environmental challenges with concise and honestly expressed solutions.

Each year we issue project briefs that challenge emerging designers to tackle social, environmental and economic issues through design thinking.

At a session on building healthy communities at the recent South by Southwest Eco conference, I talked with Howard K. Koh, the assistant secretary of health, and Bob Perciasepe, the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, about the challenge of conveying the enormous costs — in shortened and impaired lives — of air pollution when that toll is only measurable through statistical analysis.

Mikaela is the founder of the apparel start - up ARJUNA.AG, a sustainable clothing company that aims to mitigate urban environmental health challenges through the integration of design, technology and education.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

[12] They also set out to challenge the World Health Organization (WHO) and decry health and environmental activism based on so - called junk science, especially where it related to environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, and the possibilities of climate change through air pollution.

More broadly, EJN Asia - Pacific will enable the media to connect vulnerable communities through the exchange of news, data and solutions regarding environmental challenges facing the region.

Bhula added that the Board of Bokpoort CSP have placed significant pressure on the management team to raise the bar regarding overall performance expectations and clearly, the team is up to the challenge by consistently setting new standards not only in production but also through their positive socioeconomic impact and responsible environmental management.

The large Washington - based environmental groups are pressing to improve climate and energy bills that are moving through Congress — even though the bills are clearly inadequate to the challenge before us.

Abstract - The livestock sector faces the challenge to respond to the growing demand for animal protein from an expanding population while reducing environmental impact through GHG emissions...

During the 1990s and into the new century, Brayton Point faced a series of environmental challenges, including adding NOx controls in 2006 and closed - cycle cooling in 2011 to replace once - through cooling.

Children across the world can join the LEGO Planet Crew on LEGO.com (www.lego.com/planetcrew/), where they can learn through play about important environmental and social issues, and share their views on the responsibility issues they feel most passionate about.LEGO Life, the Group's social media platform (https://www.lego.com/life), which has more than one million users, is hosting a series of challenges during June and July to encourage children to build their vision of a sustainable future using LEGO bricks.

Through vast architectural projects to modest one - off pieces of salvaged furniture, the book shows how the design world is responding to the environmental challenges of this century.

From the article:... Answer: The evolutionary emergence of modernism is what has produced the challenge of environmental degradation and climate change, and these problems can only be effectively ameliorated through further cultural evolution.

There is tremendous opportunity to solve both our environmental and our economic challenges through investment in green jobs and projects that increase energy efficiency and lower utility bills and transportation bills.

«There's still a big challenge ahead, but Yvo really moved the process through some important developments,» said Angela Anderson, program director of the U.S. Climate Action Network, a coalition of environmental groups.

We also represent clients in challenging decisions of regulators and policy makers through environmental judicial review.

These included alleged breaches of EU environmental and habitat directives, indirect discrimination on an ethnic minority community due to the impact of redevelopment of London's Euston station, and a challenge to the way the project was steered through Parliament.

He advises on the promotion of land through the development / neighbourhood plan process, legal challenges / judicial review, compulsory purchase and highway law, village greens, environmental issues and the negotiation of planning / highway agreements.

Central to this is our understanding of the legal challenges at the heart of the industry, from complex regulatory and environmental matters, through to supply chain issues and employment disputes.

It sets out establishing collaborative approaches and partnerships to address housing, adequate safe water, food supplies and waste disposal as priorities.152 The National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implementEnvironmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implementenvironmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plan.154

Investigating and explaining the challenges faced by environmental refugees through the study of recent or current movements