Sentences with phrase «impact change in our communities»

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While the International Mobility Program will certainly help a few American companies to «park» their foreign employees in Canada during this tumultuous time, it's the broader policy changes that will tangibly impact the tech community at home, as well as foreigners seeking a safe and stimulating place to innovate.

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

According to the SBA, DELTA loans of up to $ 1.25 million must be used to retain jobs of defense workers, create new jobs in impacted communities, or to make operating changes with the aim of remaining in the «national technical and industrial base.»

Saul Luciano Lliuya, a farmer who lives near Lake Palcacocha in the Peruvian Andes, has sued Rheinisch - Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE), a major German utility company, to pay for the impact of climate change on his community.

Steve Miller recently posted... Love Can Change the World: 6 Ways to Make an Impact in your Community

This award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated a positive and tangible impact or effected change in the Greater Vancouver community through her dedication and leadership.

While I agree that the tax system should be fair and equitable for all, I am very concerned that the proposed changes will negatively impact hardworking small and medium - sized business owners, lawyers, accountants and physicians who play by the rules, create jobs in our community and are also raising young families in Riverbend.

Exceptional track records and extensive collective experience puts us in a unique position to impact meaningful change to the crypto community.

«Across North America and around the world, companies in every sector are assessing the impact of U.S. tax changes and making decisions that will have lasting consequences for employees and the communities in which they live and work,» writes The Honourable John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council.

«The communities SCIAF works with in developing countries are already struggling to cope with the impact of climate change.»

Such intra group communication changes are of great significance to faith communities; however, this often is neglected in our concern over the impact of mass media.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

Along with the personal tragedy they cause, changes in the realm of work are having an impact on the community.

With support from the Alliance, the companies will seek partnerships with local organizations and community leaders to increase the scope and impact of the initiative and drive change in the marketplace for the health and well - being of their communities.

This vital work, to be carried out in alliance with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Honduran micro-finance institution FAMA, and Honduran conservation organization ICADE, aims not only to make smallholder businesses more competitive and self - sustaining, but to boost the communities» resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation promotes philanthropy as a means to create change in Fairfield County, focusing on innovative and collaborative solutions to critical issues impacting the cCommunity Foundation promotes philanthropy as a means to create change in Fairfield County, focusing on innovative and collaborative solutions to critical issues impacting the communitycommunity.

Mass Audubon's Shaping the Future of Your Community program assists municipalities in considering holistic climate change impacts and reducing vulnerability.

The NAYS Academy provides administrators with a strong foundation of knowledge on a variety of topics and issues pertaining to managing youth sports programs in today's ever - changing environment, as well as the tools to positively impact the youth sports experience for all children in their communities.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

It was not clear from this review whether or not community efforts would lead to permanent changes in breastfeeding patterns; however, this analysis confirmed previous speculation regarding the presence of a supportive health system synergized with community efforts: those community interventions that were linked to positive health systems with breastfeeding support already in place appeared to have a greater impact on breastfeeding.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Still, as I've seen in other countries, healthy school meals have to be part of a wholesale cultural shift in schools and communities for the changes to have a wide - ranging impact.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

«We have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to reduce the severe impacts of climate change like rising sea levels, which will disproportionately impact coastal communities in Massachusetts,» said EPA Administrator McCarthy.

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

New York must finish the job, by fully implementing DERA to protect public health — particularly children in highly - impacted communities — and advance the state's climate change agenda.

We could make a bold commitment to invest in renewable energy, one that will get us off fossil fuels completely and provide tens of thousands of new jobs — especially in the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change.

Another resolution on the Tech Alley Impact on the Community was read, calling for zoning changes to be implemented to preserve affordability in the area.

Heathrow's new proposal for expansion have changed significantly from those put forward in 2010 and reduce the impact of expansion on our local communities.

Campaigns like this can have the best motives in the world but it doesn't change the negative impact of the Jewish community,» Mr Gardner told politics.co.uk.

Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate change.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

In that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquIn that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquin the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquin developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.»

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

«By doing this, we can better understand and predict the future of HABs and water safety in the Lake Erie community with the impact of changing climate and environmental factors.»

Such changes in plant community structures also have long - term impacts on forest regeneration, Averill said.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

This suggests that manmade luminescence (two examples shown above) may have long - lasting impacts on natural ecosystems, changing which species live — and dine — in certain communities and potentially reordering local food webs.

Next, the research team will study how the potential negative health impact of tobacco shops and liquor stores can be mitigated in South Los Angeles through community action and policy change.

Most indicators of the state of biodiversity (covering species» population trends, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition, and community composition) showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity (including resource consumption, invasive alien species, nitrogen pollution, overexploitation, and climate change impacts) showed increases.

Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

«Understanding the major step changes in land utilisation over the last 80 - 100 years provides a unique understanding of the drivers within changing land - use that might have the most significant impact on pollinator communities,» Dr Senapathi says.

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«It's a less obvious impact than losing all the birds because the change in the plant community is gradual, but Guam is becoming an increasingly different forest now that it has lost all of its frugivores,» Rogers said.

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

Such changes would ideally «require consideration of sea level rise impacts in comprehensive plans for coastal communities,» the 17 - member task force says.

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

The changes in sea level can have a dramatic impact locally on coral communities, but it's how those warmer, higher waters affect the atmosphere that really matters globally.

To determine the possible water flow changes and the impact on the plant community, the team installed access tubes into the ground to measure the changes in soil water in storage.