Sentences with phrase «impacts in communities from»

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

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«Like many of our social impact initiatives, the innovation and inspiration comes from our partners who are volunteering in and contributing to their communities,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Starbucks Global Responsibility, Community and Public Policy.

We're teaming up with @NAACP and these celebrities to send 17 buses of young people from communities impacted by gun violence around the country to the #MarchForOurLives in Washington D.C. tomorrow: https://t.co/7vbOJmqQkN @AMarch4OurLives pic.twitter.com/BJ 4uzPGlBs

Grounded in Boston Fed research, the Challenge encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

As an example of our firm's commitment to citizenship and community engagement, Goldman Sachs Gives continued to expand its reach in 2017, through initiatives such as the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choice.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

In order to partially mitigate the impact on the small business community, the government has also committed to reduce the small business tax rate by 40 % (from 2.5 % to 1.5 %) by 2017 - 18.

Join us on May 10th at Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech startup incubator in the U.S., to hear a variety of success stories and lessons learned, meet organizations at the forefront of impact investing, and see curated group of startups from the Greentown Labs community share how their innovations are impacting our clean energy future.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

These ministers, from across Canada, will be instrumental in guiding the direction of the Canadian economy and will make decisions that have a direct impact on the health and vitality of the Greater Vancouver business community.

Alison believes that diversity, a multi-disciplinary approach, and the lessons and principles learned from the past, will be crucial to the advancement of these newer technologies and thus in creating the communities, social, and economic impact we all desire.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

If Reno wants to dismiss the ethical dimension of this issue, he will have to convince me that what happens in a confined poultry house from start to finish — and its complete impact on land, chicken, farmer, eater, community — is ethically defensible, especially in the face of the viable and sensible alternatives offered by operations like my own.

Grindmaster - Cecilware has committed to being a responsible company in ways ranging from minimizing its impact on the environment to preserving a corporate culture that expresses its commitment to its employees and the communities where it operates.

The certification from the Rainforest Alliance shows that Caribou Coffee is concerned about how its business impacts the world on a global scale, but the company is just as focused on how it affects the communities in which its stores are located.

«This means operating appropriately and responsibly in many ways, from minimizing our impact on the environment to preserving a culture that expresses our commitment and support to our employees, their families and the communities where we live and operate.»

Ms Ruston told parliament on Tuesday they were not moving away from the 450gL target, but it was becoming increasingly obvious there were challenges in being able to deliver the water without having detrimental impacts on river communities.

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.

In her paper, Liz Young from Local Harvest highlighted the positive impact such projects can have on farmers and local communities.

We must work to manage our direct impacts — those that result from NWNA's operations; and we must work in partnership with local communities, academics, not - for - profits and others to monitor our collective impacts, minimize and eliminate them and steward and sustain the resources on which we all depend.

Mr. Brewer continued, «Our partnership is an instrumental step forward for both of our organizations, and we are excited to get to work on multiple projects that will use a portion of the profits from our commercial business activities to make a positive impact on many communities in need.»

From working to reduce sugar from beverages in the American diet, driving sustainable solutions to preserve the environment and protecting consumer choice, when we work together we can have a great impact on communities across the counFrom working to reduce sugar from beverages in the American diet, driving sustainable solutions to preserve the environment and protecting consumer choice, when we work together we can have a great impact on communities across the counfrom beverages in the American diet, driving sustainable solutions to preserve the environment and protecting consumer choice, when we work together we can have a great impact on communities across the country.

«Thanks to our community investments in the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, the Global Center for Health Innovation and now Hilton Cleveland Downtown, we are attracting major events to downtown Cleveland and visitors from across the globe, increasing the economic impact for our residents and region.»

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.

Among the decorations: a bouquet of white lilies from Bengals owner Mike Brown, representative of Bednarik's impact in the NFL community.

Our aim is to ensure that LGBTQ - led families will be free from the impacts of ignorance, hostility, harassment, discrimination and oppression, intentional and / or unintentional, and can participate fully in all levels of community life.

The evaluation, by the Institute of Health & Society at the University of Worcester, examined the impact of a Fatherhood Institute training package on 134 health visitors and community practitioners, drawn from 12 sites across eight English NHS Trusts in 2012 - 14.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

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.

Join the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition and others from across Kansas to create an impact in their communities.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

A group of students from Newburgh is nearing the end of a trip to Ecuador and, when they return, they'll be applying their global service learning to community impact projects in their neighborhood.

In fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EIn fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the Ein Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EU.

«The required 24 - hour lighting in a parking lot only yards away from many homes will have a negative impact on the quality of life in the community,» Golden said.

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.

From noon to 1 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, NYC Councilwoman Annabel Palma, and and Community Board # 9 Chairman Rogier van Vlissingen will host an Herbalife Round Table to discuss the impact the pyramid scheme is having in Soundview, an area with the highest concentration of «Herbalife Nutrition Clubs,» Community Board # 9, 1967 Turnbull Ave., Room # 7, the Bronx.

Students from Academia Avance in Los Angeles, California, traveled to Hoosick Falls as part of their senior project about communities impacted by water contamination.

«From experience in other similarly - impacted communities in New York, I know that working cooperatively and transparently to confront this challenge is in the best interests of both the people of Hoosick Falls and Saint - Gobain.»

The vast majority of Americans agree public libraries play an important role in their communities and that the closing of their public library would impact the community as a whole, according to data from the Pew Research Center1.

«Since the first day we have been in office in 2013, there has been tremendous concern and outreach from our constituents about the potential impact which has caused great consternation both in the affected community and beyond.»

Representatives from six different local companies sat down with the association's president and CEO Melissa Fleischut on Monday at the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce offices for a talk about the potential elimination of the minimum wage tip credit and the impact it would have in the Saratoga Springs community.

The goal of the Griffiss International Airport is to expand its economic impact in order to ensure that the community achieves the maximum benefit from the airport's potential for enhancing economic growth.

He added that the trail's impact could be substantial for the community because it brings in money not only from residents, but from tourists coming to the county and purchasing things within the community.

County Environment Director Travis Glazier said the signs will likely have little impact, but the leader of the Bhutanese community in Syracuse said the signs will «play a significant role to stop the refugees from fishing at Onondaga Lake.»

«These developments, and others, have cast a pall of uncertainty and fear over the Hoosick Falls community, with wide ranging impacts from health and emotional well - being to the local economy,» he wrote in the letter.

«Pre-K has the highest impact for kids from low - income communities, kids of color, so in the very districts that probably can't afford it is exactly where we need it.»

«New York State has been working around the clock to deliver federal funding to communities impacted by Sandy in Long Island and around the state as well as areas still recovering from Irene and Lee,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.

Vet mitigation plans through a formal and collaborative environmental review and impact study and commit to getting approval from Community Boards in the affected neighborhoods before work begins.

That was a situation here the state was benefiting from our municipality, but there was a sharing of the proceeds going to the communities that were impacted,» Jacobs said in an appearance Sunday on WBEN's Hardline program.