Sentences with phrase «from ecological projects»

Cosilana's organic, extra soft cotton comes from ecological projects and farms in Turkey and Peru which are certified by SKAL, IVN * and others.

Not exact matches

Now, in a single year each local carpenter — part of Rolando's «Ecological Handicraft Project» — uses the wood from just one tree to craft pots, miniature models of toucans, jaguars and monkeys, and an assortment of high - quality culinary items.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

Deforestation in Indonesia is particularly problematic from a climate perspective because the local flora holds so much carbon, said project leader Lisa Curran, a professor of ecological anthropology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

But next week she'll move indoors to lead the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as it evolves from a beleaguered construction project into a unique user facility.

The programs differ from traditional wetlands restoration projects because they recognize the needs of the people of the marshes as well as the extraordinary ecological riches that surround them.

According to Mervis, he will also be allowed to begin an NSF - funded Long Term Ecological Research project in which he «will soon be visiting penguin colonies on offshore islands, monitoring their return from the open ocean to mate and produce offspring.»

With financial support from Baikal Watch, a joint Russian - American project of the Earth Island Institute and Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives, Paul Robinson - Research Director at Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - was able to accept the invitation and visit Chita.

All profits from the calendars will be directed towards ANPC projects aiming to raise community awareness of threatened plant species and endangered ecological communities.

Ashwani Vasishth (USA) is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, and directs the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College and is also engaged with urban ecology projects from within a social - ecological - systems perspective, at http://sustainablejc.org.

They spent one week at the Historic Lifeboat Station working with staff from Point Reyes National Seashore and the National Park Service, conducting research on ecological projects, including plant species distribution, hydrology profiling, and fish monitoring.

It's not far from the hostel to the UK's largest ecological venture - the Eden Project and if you can tear yourself away from the beach, Newquay is the ideal base for exploring the mysterious county of Cornwall.

Only five miles and fifteen minutes» drive away from Trenython Manor is the ecological and scientific wonder that is the Eden Project, with its trio of meteorologically contrasting biomes, recently added wobbly rainforest walkway and mesmerizing horticultural diversity.

Claire came to the field of landscape architecture to integrate dynamic ecological and cultural processes throughout a project's lifecycle, from the initial vision and design, through public engagement, construction detailing, and ongoing maintenance and stewardship.

- collaboration runs from July 15th to Aug. 31st - called the «Suizokukaan» Ikasu Summer Vacation - includes various projects such as the «Splash Time» water battle event involving the «Splash Shooter» water gun - ecological exhibits on squids from the Research Lab - photo opportunities and exclusive merchandise

From an ecological perspective, all projects are feeding on the disposable income of KS subscribers or potential subscribers.

Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism.

Forest Project interns — mostly teens from the Bronx — conduct restoration projects in Wave Hill's woodland, studying the methodology and sharing it with the ecological restoration community at large.

A website (www.whatismissing.net) acts as a nexus for the project, creating an ecological history of the planet and inviting people to share something they have personally witnessed diminish significantly or disappear from the natural world.

While it's clear, from the Arctic to the tropics, that human - driven warming and other human activities can, and will, have substantial ecological impacts, projecting outright extinction remains one of the trickier enterprises in biology.

Moreover, the agency has sometimes run into criticism from scientists over what they describe as «political replanting» projects that do not always make ecological sense.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, RoberProject, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Roberproject, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

Dr. Klemens» study demonstrated that the proposed project — which seeks to introduce 951 homes into a community with only 988 existing homes (per 2000 U.S. Census for Pine Plains)-- would have significant negative ecological impacts, including the eradication of rare reptile and amphibian species from the site.

The main points arising from the regional assessment were that the Arctic is extremely vulnerable to projected climate change — major physical, ecological, sociological, and economic impacts are expected.

Environmentalists, who have made stopping Keystone a top priority, and many Democrats oppose the proposal due to greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's massive oil sands projects and other ecological concerns.

«With an alliance of environmental NGOs, universities and private businesses, we're developing the capacity to significantly accelerate funding from markets supporting «Payments for Ecological Services», including carbon credits, wetlands banking, biodiversity banking, etc, and to direct that funding to the best ecosystem restoration projects as determined by solid science», he explains.

I like that, although dragging beer from Finland to Italy might not be reducing the ecological footprint much but I get the message and love the way the project is presented.

The graduate scheme for environment is great, you get to be involved with all sorts of project work, from helping write reports to ecological site surveys and client engagement.

Community Social Capital, Built Environment, and Income - Based Inequality in Depressive Symptoms Among Older People in Japan: An Ecological Study From the JAGES Project.