Sentences with phrase «how green infrastructure»

Grasses in a terrarium soak up «raindrops» from a PVC pipe, demonstrating how green infrastructure keeps stormwater out of sewers.

Forest Trends (co-convener & participant; The Nature Concervancy lead convener) will discuss how green infrastructure investments are being made to meet multiple goals.

In Houston, for instance, we have so many rivers, bayous, creeks, and streams that it's easy to see how green infrastructure could wind around and through dense urban villages of many sizes and scales.

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This will be followed by a breakfast workshop at Broadmoor, hosted by Mass Audubon, illustrating how natural green infrastructure can preserve and restore water quality and habitat through good planning, conservation design, and LID.

Our 2014 report Building Homes Where We Need Them gives an idea of just how much land near to existing infrastructure is available on the capital's green belt, using a slightly different geography (2 km rather than 1 km, and including some stations that are further away than 45 minutes from Zone 1):

«Not just whether cities have high - density development, but how the built infrastructure is connected — and disconnected by green spaces — has a great impact on heat island intensity,» said study co-author Marshall Shepherd, the UGA Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences.

All of this goes to show how every area of the school can be used to motivate and encourage learning, with green spaces an integral part of this learning infrastructure.

5 pm Playa Summit with Emma Geller Green (Sara Blazej and Zach Smith) in conversation with Domingo Castillo (Artist and Director of Noguchi Breton), Naomi Fisher * (Artist and Director of Bas Fisher Invitational), Colin Foord (Coral Morphologic) and Felice Grodin * (Artist and Co-founder AST) about the rapidly changing infrastructure of the city of Miami, how spectacle effects the natural environment, and the effects of Art Basel Miami Beach on the city — in the spirit of Gaian interconnectivity.

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Starting with reduction and donation, Global Green's team is partnering with urban planners, city agencies and community groups to evaluate how food scraps from a specific neighborhoods can be recovered most efficiently through «Distributed Food Scrap Processing Infrastructure» and increasing the use of compost and other products made from food waste.

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«Through smarter, more sustainable energy systems, we can improve vulnerable infrastructure and reduce ongoing energy costs, as well as demonstrate how we create green jobs as we respond to the realities of sea level rise and climate change.»

After discussing these results with the TFCBC, American Rivers considered how the benefits of green stormwater infrastructure (essentially, using plants instead of pipes to manage rainfall) could address several of the community's top priorities beyond just managing stormwater.

As President of Siemens Industry Inc. and an expert in sustainable technology, Andreas Schierenbeck discusses cities of the future; addressing all aspects of sustainable city infrastructure, including transportation, traffic systems, airport technology, water and waste management, green buildings, mobility and how together they work to enable sustainable consumption.

Learn how to incorporate water conservation, efficiency and green infrastructure solutions to achieve multiple environmental, economic and social benefits.

«What is less understood is how large - scale green infrastructure projects affect air temperatures, which is what people actually feel.»

This presentation will show how these principles are important, must - have considerations for the successful design and implementation of green infrastructure projects.

Whether or not it ever gets built will depend on how serious GM is about becoming a leader in green vehicle design; future climate legislation (namely, the price we put on carbon); hydrogen infrastructure, and how that hydrogen is made; the cost of fuel cells; and the cost of batteries.

Yahoo! and fellow companies running data centers in Quincy, Washington are already getting help with greening their operations thanks to plans to create recycled water infrastructure to reduce how much water the data centers consume.

Greener Data Centers: Brian P. McCann, CMO of OnPATH Technologies Explains How The «Virtualized Infrastructure Layer» Can Save Resources

Issues examined include: whether we really are facing a «Green» energy future or not; the rise of electric vehicles; the long term relevance to law firms of growing demand for natural resources — including water resources; and how a global economy will demand a far greater global transport infrastructure.