Sentences with phrase «environmental initiatives since»

Jackson has kickstarted several environmental initiatives since joining Apple, including programs to increase the use of renewable energy at its data centers, like the massive solar and fuel cell farms in various stages of completion in North Carolina.

The Lower East Side Ecology Center has been active in educating and promoting environmental initiatives since 1987.

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Over 2,500 initiatives and innovations have been honoured by the AEF since its inception in 1992 (they receive over 100 nominations every year), raising public awareness of environmental preservation as a necessary goal alongside economic growth and natural resource development.

But the Finns» more lasting effect was to create a series of international environmental initiatives in the Arctic that have since been known as the «Rovaniemi Process.»

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

Since the project's inception, environmental initiatives have been a priority.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers, which has been building computers with power - saving features since 1993, launched a new initiative to run the UK's 350 largest companies» data centers 40 % more efficiently or donate 10,000 pounds (roughly $ 20,000) to an environmental charity.

The event, «Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs — A Fresh Look,» * is part of FoodYou, a year - long initiative of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies (where I've been based since early 2010) that is designed to focus students, faculty and staff on the under - appreciated back story behind our food choices and habits, from the «concentrated animal feeding operations» (also called CAFOs) that supply most meat and poultry to the costs that come with food waste.

Since the birth of the environmental movement in the last century, the architectural community has responded by taking the initiative to develop several Green building standards, which are focused on promoting the reduction of harmful effects on the environment and on human health in the design and construction of buildings.

Earth Day Network brought 250,000 people to the National Mall for a Climate Rally, launched the world's largest environmental service project — A Billion Acts of Green ® — introduced a global tree planting initiative that has since grown into The Canopy Project, and engaged 22,000 partners in 192 countries in observing Earth Day.

Since 1996, together with her NGO networks, she has redirected her environmental engineering expertise to assist poor communities in designing safe and well - coordinated waste management initiatives, while prioritizing environmental health and economic benefits for local people.