Sentences with phrase «for urban»

At IFAT 2016 Fraunhofer presents a modern, intelligent and sustainable water energy transition concept for urban areas.

The USDA researchers used a different metric for urban areas, where residents may be more reliant on walking and public transit.

Lastly, it is to create digital matrix bar codes for urban tree identification and classification.

Martin Schreibman, a biologist at Brooklyn College in New York City and an advocate for urban aquaculture, concedes that aquaponics poses myriad challenges but, like Rakocy, he sees the tank as half full.

One licensed retailer displayed a Mossberg Model 500 shotgun with a pistol grip next to a poster that read «Great for Urban Hunting.»

Though the states bald eagle population has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, the birds havent shown a fondness for urban real estate, preferring to nest in forested areas along the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

Traffic, however, remains the biggest killer for all urban wildlife.»

During the long dry season farmers here depend on irrigation to water their vegetable crops, growing lettuce and tomatoes, green beans and onions, mangos and melons for urban markets all over the country and for export to Europe.

These results could therefore be very important for urban planning.

But there is a solution in which we, as the public, can still have well - lit surroundings and our astronomers can have better conditions for our urban observatories.

Its findings are relevant for urban planners among others.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

This is starting to happen already: all - electric cars or plug - in hybrids are beginning to hit the mass market, and will be particularly appropriate for urban or suburban drivers where the limited range of current battery technology is less of a concern.

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of Columbia's Center for Urban Real Estate, an organization behind the idea to vastly expand lower Manhattan with yet more landfill, acknowledged that the promotion of waterfront development had put people into the path of danger.

A 1 - mile walking distance for urban and rural residents or a 10 - minute drive for urban residents and 20 - minute drive for rural residents were considered reasonable availability to a WIC retailer.

Starting in the 1990s, studies from Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden began making the case for urban life as a distinct risk factor.

«If so, improved tree hydration could become a higher priority for urban forestry management.»

Does your discovery have practical implications for urban planning?

Dubbed as Red Dot design, it's very compact and space - saving for every urban kitchen.

Even when psychologists include kids from other communities, too often they use experimental procedures originally developed for urban children.

A spokesman for Urban American Management said the company was trying to work with residents.

Collectively, the six districts educate 45 percent of the state's public school children, and the conference seeks to speak with one voice in advocating for urban education issues.

• Restoration Tree Trust, which provides trees for urban and rural areas.

The project is scheduled for Urban Design Commission review Wednesday and a Plan Commission review Monday.

Recently, I participated in a forum on workforce development sponsored by the Center for an Urban Future and the New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals.

Fifty years later, Del Smith, director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship in Rochester, says African - Americans have made a lot of progress, but the business community is still catching up.

Unlike Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, no Republican visited a public housing complex, and there was little discussion of making housing more affordable or bolstering infrastructure, bread - and - butter issues for an urban Democratic electorate.

For an urban school district like the Syracuse City School District, scores were in the single digits.

The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York, said REBNY is banking on the «investment theory» of political campaigning.

«It's really hard to think of another place in New York City that has fallen so short of its potential for economic development,» Jonathan Bowles, director of the Center for an Urban Future, told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

Former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan's new book Street Fight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution charts the recent and dramatic transformation of New York's public spaces.

According to the New York Times, which cited a report by the Center for an Urban Future, Marshall directed more money toward library projects in Queens than the four previous borough presidents combined.

I mean, who doesn't want to join their spouse driving around the city looking for urban decay?)

The Center for Urban Community Services has opened a «Single Stop» office on Southern Boulevard, to help Bronx residents determine whether they qualify for different types of public assistance.

The Center for an Urban Future's Christian Gonzalez - Rivera says there are barriers to obtaining state funded aid for part - time students.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

The event includes a panel with Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director of Center for an Urban Future; Nilda Mesa, Director at NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability; Kathryn Garcia, Commissioner, NYC Department of Sanitation.

Since the younger Mr. Díaz entered Borough Hall in 2009, the Bronx — long a byword for urban decay — has added about 15,000 jobs and almost 17,000 new apartments.

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Center for an Urban Future will hold a «policy symposium on the future of middle income jobs in New York City.»

JAMESTOWN - A representative from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will be sharing details about population management for urban deer during a work session of the Jamestown City Council tonight.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have joined forced to try to get more funding for urban school districts.

«The need [for infrastructure improvements] is clearly tremendous,» said Adam Forman, a senior researcher at the Manhattan - based public policy think tank Center for an Urban Future.

«A big expenditure for urban schools has become student support services.

In advance of Wednesday's budget release, Cuomo's staff released the highlights of an anti-poverty plan that includes increasing the minimum wage from $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour, more funding for an urban youth jobs program and investing millions in housing, homelessness services and emergency food.

But he acknowledged that many only know the borough as a byword for urban decay, something he says he can change both as a local representative and a national face.