Sentences with phrase «for urban sustainability»

She is Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), Co-Editor of the First and Second UCCRN Assessment Reports on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3), and Co-Chair of the Urban Thematic Group for the United Nations UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Campaign for an Urban Sustainability Development Goal (SDG).

While in use at the demonstration centre, the panels showcased distributed solar power for homes in British Columbia, bringing to life «practical solutions for urban sustainability, [and how to] move away from fossil fuels.»

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Greenchip Renewal Partners International Institute for Sustainable Development Responsible Investment Association Équiterre Nature Canada Greenpeace Canada SHARE Canada Forest Products Association of Canada Canadian Business for Social Responsibility Canadian Urban Transit Association Clean50 Climate Smart Business Genus Capital JCM Power Corporate Knights Toronto Atmospheric Fund The Asthma Society of Canada Bullfrog Power NEI Investments Sitka Foundation Alterra Power Corp. 20/20 Catalysts Program Renewable Cities VanCity Canadian Solar Industries Association Anglican Church of Canada Blue Green Canada Network for Business Sustainability Canadian Wind Energy Association Canada Quebec Employers Council Dunsky Energy Consulting NAIMA Canada Alliance québécoise de l'efficacité énergétique Marmott Énergies Biothermica Association québécoise de la production d'énergie renouvelable Enerkem Canadian Labour Congress Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada Plug» nDrive Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l'environnement Business Council of Canada Sustainalytics Sustainability CoLab Écotech Québec National Union of Public and General Employees Insurance Bureau of Canada Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Iron & Earth

Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.

Topics include the best practices for urban farming, bringing products to market, sourcing locally, sustainability, and the latest on the imposing Food Safety Modernization Act.

In an effort to meet the needs of the Broome County Department of Social Services (BCDSS) Welfare to Work (WTW) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Broome County Urban League (BCUL) along with several community based organizations have come together and will offer their expertise and resources with work experience activities (WEP) leading to employment and self - sustainability.

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.

These efforts continue as New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offer communities the opportunity to compete for tens of millions of redevelopment dollars for the presentation of a thorough, innovative, and collaborative sustainability plan for their region.

They also called for better water supply, drainage and waste treatment and the rehabilitation of urban rivers that could help improve sustainability and lifestyle.

Current plans include several small schemes for facilitating research and travel, while four major projects are also under way involving different UK academic institutions, to promote research into urban sustainability.

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

About Blog Aloha Urban Farming offers the hydroponic Vertical Garden and Solar Garden which save water and grow healthy food, tomatoes for sustainability.

About Blog Aloha Urban Farming offers the hydroponic Vertical Garden and Solar Garden which save water and grow healthy food, tomatoes for sustainability.

Dignified, adequate infrastructure and services should be prioritized for rural areas and poor parts of urban areas; the parasitic exploitation of villages by cities should be eliminated through measures for maximum urban self - sufficiency and sustainability; public transportation, walking and bicycling needs to be prioritized over private motorized transportation; adequate shelter / housing with land rights should be a high priority for urban slums.

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policy.

Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments

In 2011 Lumos Research for the Canadian Urban Libraries Council released a report that was very encouraging to the sustainability of the public library system in Canada.

Lumos Research for the Canadian Urban Libraries Council has released new reports that are encouraging to the sustainability of the public library system in Canada.

About Blog Aloha Urban Farming offers the hydroponic Vertical Garden and Solar Garden which save water and grow healthy food, tomatoes for sustainability.

About Our Funders Several sources provided grants to help implement the Crissy Field Center's renewable energy systems and sustainability features, plus related monitoring systems and curriculum development designed to incorporate these dynamic teaching tools into the Center's award - winning educational programs for diverse teaching tools into the Center's award - winning educational programs for diverse urban youth.

Pratt Institute Trustees have named Adam Friedman as director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, New York City's preeminent provider of architectural, urban planning, and environmental sustainability services to community - based organizations.

Its multiple sections can be viewed as large - scale models for AVL's gruesome, and no doubt satirical, thought experiments in architecture, sustainability, and urban planning.

-- Opera Campana dei Caduti — Rovereto - Italy Fishwick Papers — The Smokehouse Gallery — London MAGNET OPEN ART PROJECT — Concord, New Hampshire — USA RARITIES — Hastings / Brighton 13 ELP Annual Exhibition — Triangle Gallery — London Show Me The Monet — Royal College of Art — produced by BBC Dreams — The Freud Museum — London LightBite 2011 — Nottingham — UK Type / Script — Chapel Gallery — Ormskirk 2010 Artisti Mitteleuropei 2010 — Casa della Cultura — Calitri (AV)-- Italy Wishing — ArteOra Spazio Arte Contemporanea — Foggia — Italy The Public Are Not Invited — The Nottingham Workshop - UK ELP Box Set 2010 Launch — 242 Gallery — London 6 × 4 Postcard Exhibition — Yorkshire ArtSpace — Sheffield Link — ArteOra Gallery — group show curated by Maria Vinella — Foggia — Italy Penang International Printmaking Exhibition — Penang State Museum — Malaysia Freud Experience — solo exhibition — Freud Café Gallery — London A Suite of Lighted Rooms — Pushkin House Centre for Russian Culture - London Acqua Bene Comune — Foggia — Italy Twelve — Space Gallery — London Print for Peace 2010 — Arte AC Tecnologico Institute — Monterrey — Mexico Prize Winner — «Copertine al Tratto» 2010 — Subway Edizioni — Milan — Italy C'era una volta Pasolini — group show — Galleria Terre Rare — Bologna — Italy F.A.C.T.S. — Center for the Study in Political Graphics — Los Angeles — USA London Fashion Week — MariaFrancesca Pepe collection — Somerset House — London 2009 The Grand Plasto - Baader - Books — Kaleid Gallery — London Alexandria MiniPrint Biennal — Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center — Egypt Segni 20 × 20 — Micro Macro Gallery — Turin One Night Only — group show — Shoreditch Town Hall — London Quijiang International Print Festival 2009 — Quijian — China Eco Art Project ’09 — Rome IMPACT Centerpiece 09 — SpikePrint Studio — Bristol Pasquale Siniscalco Gallery — Milan Estetica 09 — Church of S.S. Annunziata — Calitri (AV)-- Italy Premio Spazi Evasi ’09 — Francavilla al Mare (CH) Unplug — Solo show — EstremaDura Café Gallery — Verbania — Italy Eleven — ELP Group show — Banside Gallery — London Ex Libris — Group show — Meliusz Center — Debrecen — Hungary 2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial — Guanlan Museum — Shenzen — China Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts — Museum of Humour and Satire — Gabrovo — Bulgaria Sorry If I'm Not in Line — Factory - Art Contemporanea — Trieste Ex Libris Mini Print Biennal — Sint Niklaas Dienst Museum — Belgium CDO's and Double Clubs — August Art Space — London Adreanlina 09 — Former Jewish Fish Market — Rome Wonderland — Brothers Grimm Museum — Kessel — Germany Vigna degli Artisti 09 2008 Light One Night — Group Show — ArteOra Gallery — Foggia — Italy Temptation — Group show — Cupola Gallery — Sheffield Urban Jungle — Group show — London City Hall Orange Calls Italy - Shortlisted for the final group show — PolarExpo Space — Bergamo ArteIngenua Second Act — ArteIngenua prize 08 — Guido Iemmi Art Studio — Milan — Italy Concorso Fumetto Giovani 2008 Jury Prize — illustration — Museum of Modern Art — Foggia — Italy Second Impressions — Romford Art Institute — Essex E17 Art Trail — Kelmscott School — walthamstow — London Sustainability — Latajaka Gallery — Warsaw — Poland Wonderland — Deutsches Maerchen und Wesersagen Museum — Bad Oeynhausen — Germany Lessedra International Mini Print — Lessedra Contemporary Art Gallery — Sofia — Bulgaria Evento MUSAE 08 — Museo Urbano Sperimentale Arte Emegente — Tourism Palace — Jesolo (VE) Decarbonart — Greater London City Hall — London — curated by Katja Rosenberg Art Fusion — Live painting performance — The Hub — Aldgate East — London I Am Ten — Bankside Gallery — London 2007 Tetovo IV International Biennial — Museum of Tetovo Area — Republic of Macedonia Dontpanic Design Exhibition — 93 Feet East — London Less Common Event — The Arts Gallery — Bond Street — London Shortlisted for San Fedele Visual Arts Prize — San Fedele Gallery — Milan — Italy Media Poster exhibition — DontPanicMedia — Cargo — Shoreditch — London Museo Urbano Sperimentale Artisti Emergenti — Motta Monte Corvino — Italy PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR 2007 — START SOMA gallery and CSPG Center for the Study of Political Graphics Los Angeles — Phoenix Hotel — San Francisco World Annual Print Show — Lessedra Contemporary Art Gallery — Sofia - Bulgaria Triangle Artists Open Studios — Arts Unwrapped 2007 — Hackney — London Innovative — Don't Panic Media, Playstation Season — Manchester International Festival 2007 PRE: CURSORI 2007 — Aragona Castle Museum Gallery of Taranto — Italian Ministry of Culture Illustration group show — Literature Department Gallery — Florence University Draw Drawing 2 — Foundry Gallery — Shoreditch — London — London Biennale 2006 2006 Italian Factory 2006 — Finalist in the competition — Casa del Pane Gallery — Milan XHIBIT ’06 — The Arts Gallery — Holborn — London Alhambra Café Gallery — Aldgate East — London Secuestro Express — ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts — London Cinderella» s shoe — Ascoli Piceno — Italy 2005 In the city: Eye for Art — Curator Space Gallery — London From here to here — London Design Festival — London Those Who Wonder — London College of Communication — London Ofcom Office of Communications — Riverside House Southwark — London 2004 The Sound of Print — Symposium — Victoria and Albert Museum — London Ad Fab — Solo painting exhibition — Red Gate Gallery — London Berlin Design Mai — In collaboration with Shift Magazine — Germany Conversation — London College of Communications — London 2003 Ichiza Project — in collaboration with Crossroad Works

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An important framework for doing so is the CITYFOOD network: Linking Cities on Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Systems that has been set up in joint collaboration with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability.

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Dr. Sultan al Jaber, CEO of the Masdar Initiative, said, «Masdar City will question conventional patterns of urban development, and set new benchmarks for sustainability and environmentally friendly design — the students, faculty and businesses located in Masdar City will not only be able to witness innovation first - hand, but they will also participate in its development.»

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

Steering Committee, ICLEI, and consultants at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Bellevue Washington, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Cities Leading through Energy Analysis and Planning (Cities - LEAP) Program, are working to advance the state of the urban sustainability practicSustainability and the City of Bellevue Washington, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Cities Leading through Energy Analysis and Planning (Cities - LEAP) Program, are working to advance the state of the urban sustainability practicsustainability practice by -LSB-...]

In consideration of themes and programming for the 2017 congress, the local organizing committee envisions a broad and inclusive view of topics on environmental and sustainability education that will highlight the impact of urban ecosystems and local, place based initiatives that can be translated into practices on a global scale.

An optimal transport and land use scenario was developed through modelling predicted demand, thus creating a future spatial design that promotes urban efficiency and sustainability for residents and the city government.

«Vancouver is fortunate to have an innovative and courageous building industry,» says Gil Kelley, General Manager of Planning, Urban Design, and Sustainability for the City of Vancouver.

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Paul currently works in applied research at CUNY Building Performance Laboratory, supervises graduate students at City College's graduate program in sustainability in the urban environment, trains and consults in teaching techniques for Urban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private seurban environment, trains and consults in teaching techniques for Urban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private seUrban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private sector.

A group of organisations, including the UN FAO, the International Sustainability Unit - Prince of Wales Charity Foundation, the CFS - Civil Society Mechanism, Communitas Coalition, Global Food Security Cluster - Urban working group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, RUAF Foundation, IUFN, UCLG, ILO, IFAD, UNCD and Habitat International Coalition jointly organised at the World Urban Forum a session on city region food systems.

We focus on sustainability goals for green roof projects and solving environmental issues, such as stormwater management and the urban heat island effect.

So says a new report on urban policies for dealing with the risks of climate change, published this month in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

There is recognition among urban sustainability leaders that the district is an important scale for addressing sustainability, including reducing carbon emissions, improving our natural systems, and building community action.

On this week's eco@africa, we meet Nigerians striving for sustainability, German farmers using ancient techniques, and Ugandan school children getting green - fingered with urban farming projects at school.

More than that the objective is to integrate management of the urban water cycle — sewage treatment and effluent reuse, stormwater treatment and recycling and potable water supply to maximize utility, efficiency, cost effectiveness and ecological sustainability — for which I have won awards.

Since 2006, he has been associated with the San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability.

Much larger than the C40 but with less press appeal than Bloomberg, the association ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability (composed of 1220 local governments) also participated from the conference actively and UN Habitat launched a global campaign called I'm a city changer, aimed at «sensitizing and creating awareness among citizens on urban issues to achieve better cities.»

The principles of sustainability are integral to our work: designing buildings that run at a fraction of the current energy requirements, or urban quarters that can support thriving communities, improving the quality of life in a city for all.

I found myself in one of those happy circumstances a little ways back at an event titled «Understanding Urban Sustainability: One Block at a Time,» hosted by the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) and the Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc).

On the one hand, this data can be used for a lot of good, such as healthcare, urban planning, sustainability and safety.

About Blog Aloha Urban Farming offers the hydroponic Vertical Garden and Solar Garden which save water and grow healthy food, tomatoes for sustainability.

Australia About Blog The 10th Making Cities Liveable Conference is a platform for government, academic and industry professionals to discuss public health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, urban design, biosecurity and more.

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