Sentences with phrase «global built environment»

This black box miracle is a great tool to enable nations to reach agreements about CO2 that do not require costly changes in the infrastructure of our global built environment.

Architecture 2030 was asked to present its perspective on the U.S. and global built environment at one of these meetings — the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's Climate Change Expert Group (OECD CCXG) Global Forum in Paris.

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«We are not only creating a world - class work environment to help retain and attract the best and brightest global talent, but also building a campus that our neighbors can enjoy, and that we can build in a fiscally smart way with low environmental impact.»

Through a global network of physical LOFT labs, we have built environments where teams discover, incubate, and accelerate work on new technologies, products / services, and processes in a fail - fast culture where every idea is given a fighting chance to succeed.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

83 Degrees Media tells the stories of urban and emerging neighborhoods, community building, placemaking, entrepreneurship, creativity, arts and growing companies by featuring stories about talent, innovation, global diversity and environment in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

But based on data provided by the National Energy Board and the Environment Canada Hughes found that there was no way that Canada could build more pipelines and meet promised global reductions in greenhouse gases.

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Instead of destroying all boundaries for the sake of one homogeneous global market, it calls for the subordination of economic activity to the building up of human community, and community with the natural environment as well.

To begin the process of building that packaging, we start with research including brand and category insights, competitive analysis, an intense look at the retail merchandising environment and an investigation into new ideas and methods in the global marketplace.

Solvay serves diversified global end markets, including automotive and aerospace, consumer goods and healthcare, energy and environment, electricity and electronics, building and construction as well as industrial applications.

From a global perspective, the PLP report includes the Company's 2025 goals aimed at working to improve the health and well - being of all people, building resilience in communities around the world and positively impacting the environment.

The midtown building where Schlossberg had a part - time office has evicted him, telling News 4 in a statement Thursday, «Corporate Suites has a diverse and global community of business professionals working in a rich environment with mutual respect.

· Will show the world that construction managers who have come through the Academy are a talented and diverse workforce who make a real and positive difference to global challenges in the built environment.

A recent World Bank report reveals that Global Average Annual Losses from disasters in the built environment are now estimated at $ 314 billion and can increase to $ 415 billion by 2030..

As part of CIOB's commitment to raising global standards in the built environment sector, the Academy will be launching free online CPD sessions in the coming months, including a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Ethics and Compliance.

In 2004, Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Centre for Health and the Global Environment, and James McCarthy of Harvard University, claimed: «We are already observing signs of instability within the climate system -LSB-...] there is no assurance that the rate of greenhouse gas build up will not force the system to oscillate erratically and yield significant and punishing surprises.»

Now building on a large scale, the answer is a global Earth observatory, consisting of 1,000 or more well - equipped ground stations around the world that track environments and key ecosystems fully and continuously.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

The built environment, whether concrete structures or paved roads, absorbs heat, increasing the impact of global warming — but alternative materials could be a relatively cheap way to reduce temperature rise.

The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any thought to the consequences.

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtGlobal Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

SeoulArts is dedicated to pursue the universal truth and environmentally friendly creative endeavors while building a global learning environment to share our art with the world.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published its manifesto of priorities for the new government, entitled Building Global Britain, which contains recommendations to support a high quality, sustainable built environment across the UK.

As such, the World Green Building Council has released a report which summarises global research over the past two decades on indoor environments.

We live in complex knowledge building environments with increasing global connections.

We help build the global citizenship skills needed to solve world issues such as human rights, gender equity, the environment, sustainable development, poverty, and global peace and justice.

Designer will collaborate with GPM faculty and staff, global partner - sites, and other St. Jude departments to design, build, deliver, and manage educational content for use in distance and blended learning environments as well as the Cure4Kids medical education website.

Curriculum is built on industry standards and is designed to provide junior - and senior - level students the experience and skills they need to succeed both in the competitive college scholarship and admissions environment and in the twenty - first century global workforce.

When a school or district builds on this foundation, combining the entire Framework with the necessary support systems — standards, assessments, curriculum and instruction, professional development and learning environments — students are more engaged in the learning process and graduate better prepared to thrive in today's global economy.»

Geospatial Analysis of Remote Sensing Data to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Heat Island Effect, Air Quality, and Global Warming (2009)

I have a joint venture going on right now with what I think is going to turn out to be a super disruptive partner who's building a very large ebook reading and purchasing environment that's going to be global, going out through the wireless providers and doesn't require anything from the publishers.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

Alila Villas Uluwatu is designed by award - winning Singapore architectural firm, WOHA, which has built a global reputation for innovative design for projects in tropical environments earning it the Royal Australian Institute of Architect's (RAIA) International Award at the 2006 National Architecture Awards in Brisbane for their House on Rochalie Drive in Singapore, and Architectural Review MIPIM future projects award for The Met, a high - rise condominium in Bangkok, to name a few.

Forged in response to the company's global goal of reducing energy and water consumption by 20 per cent by 2020, the initiatives will build on Marriott's decades - long commitment to preserving and protecting the environment.

Tajima's most recent work extends her interrogation of «the built environment and the maximized performer to the global flow of life energies sought by unraveling systems.»

Lewitt focuses on conventions of support and shelter, of energy and infrastructure, in the context of the surplus matter that is up - cycled into the built environment: a process by which the material byproducts of global energy production is itself magically accounted for as a stock of supplies.

The Cooper Union's Service to Sustainability Awards recognize people and organizations that share the Institute's commitment to enhancing public understanding of sustainable environments and green building design and construction, and work to promote the adaptation of sustainability on local and global levels.

Using visual methods alongside text and materiality, Urbiquity aims to investigate sociality in the built environment and generate new knowledge of the ways we inhabit increasingly multilayered, contextual and connected global localities.

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

Such a situation would make the Arctic ice coverage more variable and remain on net much thinner, but there'd be a stop - limit heat - exchange function built into the system that'd govern to what extent the Arctic can warm and whether an increasingly ice - free boreal environment would offset global warming elsewhere by some margin.

He wasn't willing to help our country but he made sure his own surroundings were protecting the environment and he used all of the tools available when building the home in Crawford supporting the fact that global warming does exist.

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are planned, designed, and constructed and;

The new relationship will leverage Shimizu's extensive network of sustainable building services clients to further expand the global reach of the International WELL Building Institute's ™ (IWBI ™) WELL Building Standard ™ (WELL), which is the world's first building standard focused exclusively on the effects of the built environment on human health and well building services clients to further expand the global reach of the International WELL Building Institute's ™ (IWBI ™) WELL Building Standard ™ (WELL), which is the world's first building standard focused exclusively on the effects of the built environment on human health and well Building Institute's ™ (IWBI ™) WELL Building Standard ™ (WELL), which is the world's first building standard focused exclusively on the effects of the built environment on human health and well Building Standard ™ (WELL), which is the world's first building standard focused exclusively on the effects of the built environment on human health and well building standard focused exclusively on the effects of the built environment on human health and well - being.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (March 22, 2016)-- As the next step in their global alliance to accelerate the integration of human health and wellness in the built environment, Delos ™, the pioneer of Wellness Real Estate ™, and Lendlease, one of the world's leading integrated infrastructure and real estate groups, today announced their collaboration to advance the WELL Core & Shell Certification and pre-Certification programs as a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenants.

In addition, Athena has an ongoing relationship with the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), a non-profit organization whose overall aim is to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built environBuilt Environment (iiSBE), a non-profit organization whose overall aim is to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built eEnvironment (iiSBE), a non-profit organization whose overall aim is to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built environbuilt environmentenvironment.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

EURO4M is an important building block for GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), the European initiative for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation.

There are already many excellent volumes that capably expose the fraudulent theories about ozone depletion, global warming, pollution, pesticides, cancer risks, nuclear power, PCBs, asbestos, acid rain, deforestation, carbon dioxide, biodiversity, soil depletion, etc. 2 Rather, we hope to demonstrate convincingly that concerns about the environment (some overblown, others completely fabricated) are being cynically exploited by influential individuals and organizations whose goal includes building a global tyranny.