Sentences with phrase «from loggers»

About battling tree lovers, from loggers to activists, it won L.A.'s Mockumentary Festival award last year.

It goes without saying that anyone involved with green building should cut their own wood or buy their firewood from loggers concerned with sustainability.

(12/09/2009) A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon - trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms.

They fought to have it protected and added into the World Heritage National Parks register to ensure it is safe from loggers and development in the future.

The Brukdown that is like Calypso came from loggers in the jungle.

Everyone is at it, from loggers felling the Amazonian rainforest and fishers fighting over the last few cod to SUV drivers running the oil wells dry and politicians on their gravy trains.

You can't solve problems in a forest for long simply by taking the chainsaw from a logger.

Not exact matches

loggers from around the country will showcase their best brunch dishes, from cocktails to cakes, breakfast breads, tarts, and quiche - there is something for everyone!

Belize's estimated 200,000 citizens trace their roots back to native Indians, African slaves, British loggers, Chinese from Hong Kong and refugees from assorted American countries, mainly El Salvador and Guatemala.

Kent also said his business was destroyed by the «Rutherford - Cain gang» from Niagara County, who were rival loggers.

Indeed, as the sun begins to set and I turn away from the teenage loggers to begin my long hike out of the Borneo jungle and away from their desperate conditions, I realize this is not an option for them.

The loggers should benefit from logging, not sales companies.

Staving off this rainforest destruction — and subsequent revival of forestlands — through conservation efforts like the United Nations» Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program would be a big win for U.S. farmers, ranchers and loggers, according to the report.

Researchers using custom - built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and attached to free - flying birds on migration, have gained ground - breaking insights into the mysteries of bird flight formation.

A Web logger, or blogger, will see an interesting item on the Middle East peace accords from Reuters, then post a link to it on his blog, adding a few sentences of endorsement or critique.

Working to Ewers's experimental design, the loggers will leave patches of rainforest of different sizes, and at different distances from other patches of rainforest, to determine the effects of different levels of deforestation.

Ecologists from around the world are working with the very people who would seem their sworn enemies — rainforest loggers.

Data - loggers installed along a narrow travel pathway from the sea were used to gather accurate data on how much time tagged adult birds spent away from the island and how frequently they returned to feed their chicks.

But those loggers record only 5 minutes of sound every 15 minutes, and any signals are likely to be contaminated with noise from seismic surveys, says Duncan.

A new data logger developed by Fraunhofer researchers simultaneously collects data from vehicles with combustion engines, electric drives, external sensors, and location data, and permits the development of new hybrid and electric vehicles.

The data logger's versatility makes it appealing to partners from industry.

Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.

And an accord between a loggers trade group, the Forest Products Association of Canada, and environmental groups calls on industry to reduce greenhouse gas «along the full life cycle from forest to end of product life.»

It is suggesting that the million - plus owners of Chargecards use public payphones when making calls from any building which may have a call logger on the switchboard which prints out the vital pin number.

The study drew data from weather records from airports, used to model when the ground was frozen; Department of Natural Resources records on harvest levels for various tree species; and interviews with forest managers and loggers.

This super sweat wicker, which you could totally sport under a regular T, emerged from runs damp but not dripping, making our mile loggers smile.

I am a disc jockey from San Francisco in the 70s at the gay bath houses.Was a logger for 11 years.

Reminders of lumber's importance are everywhere, from the smile on each year's Logger Days Queen to the shine on the flagpole - high axe sculpture in front of the high school.

For example, recently developed Gratnells PowerTrays and PowerTrolleys continuously analyse the appetite for power from USB electronic devices such as phones, tablets and data loggers, responding with an optimized rate of charge and syncing between them to produce a complete storage, charging and syncing solution.

Other additional features include data logger, radio start system that helps the driver to start the car from a distance, radio communication, fresh air system, etc..

Even a very very quick cog change of a manual (this I timed with the Data logger takes 0.28 s for 1 - 2, 0.37 s for 2 - 3 — from data coming from the clutch switch which activates the rev control and shift limit, activates the timing retard aka «misfiring system».)

They're sitting outdoors in the snow, acclimating to the temperature as we survey the test course and install our VBOX data logger in the bright red 2009 Civic Si four - door we drove up from Minneapolis last night.

They didn't come from privilege or prep school; the nine young men in the University of Washington scull who won gold in the 1936 Olympics, infuriating the Führer while the home crowd cheered, were the sons of farmers, loggers and longshoremen.

The title story, «The Lives of Rocks», in which a geologist, living in the forest and weakened by cancer treatments, comes to rely on the help and company of two children from a rigidly fundamentalist family who are happy to help until she teaches them that the earth is millions of years old; and «Fiber» in which a logger muses on his job in the Yaak Valley before turning on the reader with a direct plea to help protect the area - in a few swift words changing the reader from casual observer to participant.

The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.

A Campbell River landmark during the town's early years, the Willows Hotel served both an international sportsfishing clientele and the rough and ready loggers from isolated camps.

By 1745 the Spaniards, coming from Mexico this time, advanced as far as New River about 60 miles north of Belize City and created a lot of problems for the loggers.

The name is taken from the Hawks - bill and Logger - head Turtles that rest here.

That room, intended to be «a space of contemplation,» is lined with wood from the felled forest; once the initial clear - cutting was complete, Paterson and a group of loggers planted the new saplings themselves, as photographed above.

However, North Carolina private loggers and land - owners interviewed for a Wall Street Journal investigative report last week admitted that trees more than 100 years old, including some from wetlands, does wind up in pellet plants.

Guisao began his transition from being a logger who harvested the forest to being a ranger who protects it after a community assembly four years ago, when the 1500 members of the Tolo River organization jointly decided to affirm their land rights and protect the forest.

Incidentally, if you are interested and have a little spare $ $ you can buy temperature data loggers from this website — it's really a kick to do your own tests.

The Hindu: Polluted skies, dead rivers, disappearing forests and displacement of peasants and tribal are what we see around us 40 years after the Chipko movement started On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 years ago — a group of peasants in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling [continue reading...]

Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.

Backed - up data on a memory card from one of two data loggers (stripped down computers that control power distribution and data collections) indicated that everything was working.

In the future, perhaps, loggers will use chainsaws that burn alcohol distilled from sugar cane and drive trucks fueled with biodiesel.

Despite Brazilian officials who say they are working to protect the groups and have seen tribal populations on the increase, threat from encroaching loggers becomes graver with every passing day.

According to a representative from the Guajajara community in northeastern Brazil, a group of illegal loggers recently captured a young indian girl from a neighboring uncontacted tribe and burned her to death.

A rubber tapper by trade, Mendes fought to preserve the rainforest which sustained the profession, opposing development and deforestation from cattle farmers and loggers.

He joined the Canadian Navy at 17, and when he returned to his small town in Northern Saskatchewan, «my older brothers had been loggers and miners so I heard from them about logging and mining» and so, until law school, he worked in those jobs with them.