Sentences with phrase «environmental needs of our community»

Our programs and educators positively impact key issues linked to the critical social, economic, and environmental needs of our community.

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Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott, among others, speak of the need to extend our moral concern to the land or the environmental community and to develop a land...

Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott, among others, speak of the need to extend our moral concern to the land or the environmental community and to develop a land aesthetic.

Environmental water is needed because the Basin's river system is often placed under pressure because the natural movement, distribution, and quality of water is altered due to river regulation and infrastructure that was built to support burgeoning communities and agricultural production.

As part of our mission to support education, research, and scholarship within the school nutrition community, the School Nutrition Foundation has partnered with the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) on the School Cafeteria Discards Assessment Project (SCrAP)-- and we need YOUR help!

Our local team of community experts will help meet the needs of parents as they tackle many challenging parenting issues... sleep, breastfeeding, maternity education and preparation, child and environmental safety, food and nutrition, parenting, and educational and special needs advocacy.

«Hospitals are the heart and soul of the community and we need to be open for business no matter what,» says Kai Abelkis, environmental coordinator for Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, community and we need to be open for business no matter what,» says Kai Abelkis, environmental coordinator for Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado.

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

Position Description: The Riverkeeper Ambassador Program is a community - oriented, grassroots, environmental program designed to raise awareness about the needs of the Hudson River and it's tributaries, and the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley.

«The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, in a sCommunity Environmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, inEnvironmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, inenvironmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, in a scommunity has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, in a statement.

Governor Cuomo should let this plan go, and the Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) board should immediately direct staff to aggressively move these funds to the communities that are in desperate need of it.»

The Treasury and the DTI have continually sought to ensure that environmental objectives are watered down to avoid any conflict with the short - term needs of the business community.

At Monday's meeting, which was hosted by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, resident said the developers needed to do a better job of looking into the impact the building will have on the community, in terms of displacement of local tenants, as well as its environmental impact on increasing traffic and casting shadows on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

Katherine Nadeau, Policy Director at group Environmental Advocates of New York, said that the possibility of more federal funding to assist New York communities remediate brownfield sites comes in a time of need.

Given developing efforts to mine deep - sea hydrothermal vent fields for precious metals, the scientists involved in this research suggest that conservationists and management agencies need to consider a broader range of factors in their efforts to predict the environmental impacts and the resiliency of affected communities.

The Commission intends «to shine a light on the civil rights implications of toxic coal ash, as well as other environmental conditions, on communities most in need of protection,» said Commission Chairman Martin R. Castro in a statement.

«This study takes an integrated approach that addresses the need to advance Arctic environmental research at the system level, a challenge that has been recognized by the broad scientific community as necessary to improve predictions of future change,» said Cox.

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

«A sense of ourselves as ecological creatures is needed, planning as families and communities to reduce environmental pressure, and maintain and renew ecosystems,» he said.

«As the world community pursues new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know who is leading and who is lagging on energy and environmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yalenvironmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at YalEnvironmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University.

The Community agreed in June 1989 that it needed an agency to collect and standardise environmental data, and to monitor the implementation of environment legislation across Europe.

Environmental issues, resource management, and the continual evolution of technology are all issues that aboriginal communities will need to address in the future and, consequently, there will always be a demand for well - trained aboriginal scientists and engineers.

Although SEC filings would no longer be required, communities could still learn something about its waste management and production practices because the company would need to provide information for various kinds of environmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental Integenvironmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental IntegEnvironmental Integrity Project.

«At the same time, we need to give all students a coherent view of the processes of life so that they'll understand issues in their own lives and communities — issues like health, environmental protection, and biosecurity.»

A Unified Microbiome Initiative would develop the transformative tools and research teams we need to harness the power of these communities to improve human health, agricultural productivity, bioenergy production, and environmental stability,» Chun said.

«Developing these types of studies that bring the results into a greater community context is extremely valuable to policymakers that need to make decisions for their areas,» Jeremy Mathis, director of ocean and environmental research at Pacific Marine Environmentenvironmental research at Pacific Marine EnvironmentalEnvironmental Lab, said.

Members embrace the intrinsic value and right to exist of the other - than - human and of natural environments, and recognize that the pursuance and advocacy of a planetary ethic of environmental and social justice needs to be grounded in, as well as restorative and celebratory of, local and indigenous communities and cultures.

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on nNeed Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on needneed.

The Crissy Field Center has begun working with community - based organizations in need of tuition - free summer programming focused on outdoor experiential environmental education.

«Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.»

That same template established in the documentary course through which I worked with Prof. Maria Luskay and energetic student teams to create six films that capture the reality that any environmental solution will fail if it does not integrate the economic needs and norms of local communities.

I realise the scientific community's forecast regarding the time window in which to accomplish what needs to be done to reverse our environmental destruction is most often bleak, but in a perverse way, if it weren't getting so bad, we wouldn't have a hope in hell of taking action.

All societies need environmental rules, regardless of whether that are sovereign nation states, or small independent localised sustainable communities.

Consider environmental degradation... the immense pressures of economic forces on local communities... the dire need for sustainable urbanization, affordable infrastructure, and accessible communication.

The trouble is, many communities across this nation have a history of systematically denying people of color access to healthy environments and important decision - making processes, as well as important resources needed to combat environmental inequities.

While I probably don't need to tell you that sprawl is uniformly bad (even this so - called «green» sprawl)-- both for the environment and for the sake of fostering sustainable communities (among others)-- it can't hurt to get this primer from the Environmental Law Institute:

And, as far as health impacts are concerned, when the Director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health admits that more research is needed on the health impacts on fracking (and Rob Jackson of Duke University says in this same article that it will take three to five years to determine fracking's health impacts), it shows just how serious these questions are — especially outside New York, in communities where fracking is already going full - bore.

In 2012, the World Health Organiation and the UN environment programme published a major report on the state of EDC science, which concluded that communities across the globe were being exposed to EDCs and their associated risks and that urgent research on the health and environmental impacts was needed.

While the dangers in Flint and Standing Rock eventually became major stories this year, they were not the only ones worthy of attention, and there are other environmental crises hurting communities of color that still need the support of media to amplify a harsh reality.

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.

With the environmental disasters taking place in cities across the country from Santa Barbara, CA to Houston, TX to Santa Rosa, CA, city leaders and community stakeholders are beginning to recognize the vital need to think, plan, and act to improve their resilience in the face of future environmental disturbances.

In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.

One need only consider the Clean Water Act, RCRA (resource conservation), CERCLA and amendments (Superfund), SARA (community - right - to - know), Clean Air Act and amendments, Organic and Synthetic Fiber Rules, Montreal Protocol, etc, to show that the environmental lobby has had a lot of success.

According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced fluids from fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of new water needed for hydraulic fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.

The discussions covered questions of what kind of environmental data is needed for the Arctic region and what kind of data the meteorological community can offer to those operating in the region.

The study, which was featured in the August 9, 2010 issue of Nature magazine and later published in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

This unprecedented statement by social movements of climate - impacted communities from the global South as well as faith, labour, environmental, and anti-poverty groups representing tens of millions of people from around the world sets out the minimum needed from the Paris summit COP21.

A St. Louis pastor heads to Chicago on this week to tell Environmental Protection Agency policymakers that a program under the Obama administration's clean energy plan should consider the needs of low - income communities.

Placed - based Projects: we work with communities to achieve local and lasting economic growth by incorporating the social and environmental needs of the area.

The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) was founded by a group of researchers, educators and community activists who saw the need to affirm and revitalize principles of democracy and social justice in energy and environmental policy.