Sentences with phrase «environmental leaders from»

A few years ago, religious and environmental leaders from all over the world converged at the United Nations and on college campuses to celebrate the teachings of de Chardin, who lived for a time at a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, N.Y. and whose remains are buried there.

In the debate over our book, i > Break Through, prominent environmental leaders from the Sierra Club's Carl Pope (he's quoted in the Wired magazine profile about us) to the NRDC's David Hawkins (see his blog) have insisted that they support big investment.

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Kicking off with a few childhood classics and going on to cover everything from great novels and autobiography to environmental tomes, the list wanders far beyond the business and self - help fare usually recommended to leaders.

The reports that Trump had decided to exit immediately unleashed a torrent of criticism from Democrats, environmental activists, and some business leaders.

From energy and environmental policies to workplace regulations, here are four of the top rules business leaders would have Trump whisk away first:

A former top leader in academia, Rodin has put the idea of «resilience» at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in recent years, helping communities worldwide prepare for and recover from major environmental and man - made shocks.

It has received more than 50 endorsements from prominent marketers and environmental leaders, and has sold rights to Italian, Turkish, and audiobook editions.

More than 50 endorsements from prominent marketers and environmental leaders such as Chris Brogan, Mark Joyner, Marcia Yudkin, Joel Makower, and Jacquelyn Ottman

Endorsed by 22 prominent business and environmental leaders including Chicken Soup co-creator Jack Canfield and innovation blogger / author Seth Godin, the book also includes guest essays from Cynthia Kersey (author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women) and Frances Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet and many other books on food and democracy).

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

The visit was organized with the support of the Honourable Daniel Lang, Senator for Yukon and included meetings with Council of Yukon First Nation's Grand Chief, Peter Johnson; Council of Yukon First Nations; Commissioner Doug Phillips; Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis; Representatives from the Yukon Government; Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessemt Board; Yukon Energy Corporation; Interim President of Yukon College and business leaders from the Yukon Chamber of Mines; Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce; Yukon Chamber of Commerce; the Yukon First Nation Chamber of Commerce and Klondike Placer Miners» Association.

«Most Canadians have no idea that this deal is being negotiated in secret under the guidance of multinational corporations with no input from labour leaders, environmental experts or even MPs,» O'Hanlon said.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix has introduced British Columbia Local Food Act, 2014, legislation that would increase the economic and environmental value British Columbians derive from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

VANCOUVER — New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix plans to introduce the British Columbia Local Food Act, 2014, legislation that would increase the economic and environmental value British Columbians derive from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

In seeking to explain the commencement of armed conflicts among nations, writings from our century are far more likely to emphasize «environmental» causes, such as, of course, economics, than the freewill decisions of various leaders or the power of ideas.

One of these planners was Raouf Dabbas, appointed by Jordan's Royal Court to head the environmental delegation from Jordan to the Young Leaders Network, a group of future leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Leaders Network, a group of future leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

«ARAMARK is proud to stand in partnership with other industry leaders and supply chain partners to transition away from gestation crates in a timely fashion,» said Kathy Cacciola, ARAMARK's Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability.

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

«With the Trump Administration and their allies in Congress working to gut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and rollback key environmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the lEnvironmental Protection Agency and rollback key environmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the lenvironmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the letter states.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Democrats both, received scores of 100 from the group, which assessed votes on key environmental issues, including the Clean Water Bond Act, renewable energy, septic storage and bolstering solar panel technology.

The Bridging Gowanus community planning process was convened by the local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Development.

From activists for social and environmental justice, to advocates for affordable housing and alternative transportation, to leaders in the struggle for immigrants» rights and civil rights, NKD is building a progressive Brooklyn alliance.

The story is drawing strong reaction from environmental advocates and political leaders.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

Westchester County Board of Legislators Majority Leader and Subcommittee Chairman Peter Harckham (D - Katonah) welcomed Raymond Kvalheim, a project director with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and Jason C. Denno, from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation and CWNS state coordinator, to discuss necessary wastewater infrastructure improvements and how to document these needs.

The Industrial Development Agency's board of directors voted 14 - 1 in favor of a tax break and capital investment package — despite criticism from residents and elected leaders who complained the local community was shut out of a deal they say poses environmental threats and only a promise of future jobs.

Cuomo has received more than 22,000 petition signatures, letters and postcards in support of the plan, as well as letters from 42 environmental conservation and sportsmen organizations and 35 businesses and community leaders.

The proposal has been met with skepticism from some county, town and environmental leaders.

«This is an opportunity for the United States to be energy - independent from the Muslim countries of the Middle East, and New York should be a leader, but instead, Cuomo just gives in to the environmental Luddites of the Democratic Party.»

«The Sierra Club has been a leader among environmental organizations, from keeping New York's drinking water clean to leading the fight against hydrofracking, they have been a crucial partner in protecting New York's environment.

In particular, threats from the federal government were acknowledged by Cuomo during his state of the State address and in remarks from legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate, from the potentially harmful environmental policy of

The advocates included actress Debra Winger, filmmaker Josh Fox and environmental leader Bill McKibben, as well as activists from communities across New York's Southern Tier.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environEnvironmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmentalenvironmental goals.

... Mr Bloomberg told the Financial Times his event would be more focused on getting private and public sector leaders from developed and emerging economies to work together on finding «actionable solutions» to challenges from economic inclusion to environmental sustainability.»

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.

Fearing repercussions from Skelos in his capacity as Senate majority leader, Dorego employed Adam through Glenwood - affiliated environmental company AbTech Industries.

Adam Skelos, 33, had sought to profit from fracking through a contract with environmental company AbTech Industries, as Dean — then the Senate majority leader — tried to pressure the state to legalize the procedure.

Skelos, 68, and Adam, 33, both of Rockville Centre, are scheduled to be sentenced April 13 in Manhattan federal court for conspiring to use Dean's power as Republican majority leader to help Adam get work from a real estate developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental firm.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, D - Manhattan, the ranking Democrat on the Environmental Conservation Committee, wants Republican leaders to release the information they obtained from three companies responsible for the pollution in Hoosick Falls and the town of Petersburgh, where private wells were also polluted with PFOA, which has been linked to cancer and other ailments.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said local leaders found out about the plan through media reports and were not briefed about any potential environmental impact from the demolition.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Melissa Haeffner, a PSU environmental science professor and the study's principal investigator, said that residents who received communications from their local water bureaus or served on a city water system advisory board or committee had perspectives and concerns that were more aligned with those of political leaders and professional water managers.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

Sources in the environmental community say European leaders are starting to get calls from the White House laying the groundwork for a U.S. exit.

In 2003, an academic - community collaboration called the Environmental Justice Partnership (EJP) was launched, bringing together faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a community board that includes East Baltimore residents, leaders and members from local organizations.

This workshop will bring together some of the world's leading experts in social and environmental safeguards as well as bring in some of the local community leaders from Brazil and Mexico to discuss what types of systems work, which don't, and how to build off the existing ROW recommendations for developing successful programs.