Sentences with phrase «in urban waste»

Drugs and chemicals that are flushed down toilets and drains have long been reported in urban waste water and the streams into which it flows.

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Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

Food redistribution groups helping Salt & Straw in its waste - minimizing efforts include Urban Gleaners in Portland, Food Forward in Los Angeles, and Food Runners in San Francisco.

She said «there is a growing realization that agriculture is the solution to reducing food waste, getting youth in employment, urban agriculture and sequestrating carbon emissions».

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

In developed countries, as well as in rapidly growing urban areas just about everywhere, steps to prevent food waste at retail markets, restaurants and homes will be vitaIn developed countries, as well as in rapidly growing urban areas just about everywhere, steps to prevent food waste at retail markets, restaurants and homes will be vitain rapidly growing urban areas just about everywhere, steps to prevent food waste at retail markets, restaurants and homes will be vital.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablIn a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerablin - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

Our ventures also prevent the waste of millions of pounds of nutritious food, expand access to healthy, local options in urban food deserts, and scale our model nationally through strategic partnerships with colleges and universities.

Researchers collected data on plate waste in four urban, low - income school districts both before and after the new standards were implemented, and found that under the new standards:

Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.

In a densely populated urban or suburban area, for instance, broadcast TV advertising is impractical for many campaigns because too many spots will be wasted on viewers outside district lines.

Government has also launched what it calls the Integrated Urban Environmental Sanitation Master Plan (IUESMP), to complement all existing strategies in the sanitation, drainage and water management sub-sectors to holistically deal with sanitation and waste.

CHF's poverty map for Sekondi — Takoradi, the country's third - largest urban area, takes into account access to housing; room and housing density levels; solid - waste services; sanitation and water; and income, says Ishmael Adams, acting country director for CHF in Ghana.

Gridlock costs motorists in the country's 439 largest cities $ 115 billion a year in extra fuel and wasted time, which translates to $ 808 per driver, according to the Texas Transportation Institute's annual Urban Mobility Report.

The gulls that are now killing whale calves off Argentina weren't a big problem until an increase in fishing and urban waste drove an increase in the gull population.

Researchers also study the metabolism of some less - than - natural ecosystems — large cities — in terms of how urban areas consume resources and generate waste.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

The researchers collected plate waste data among 1,030 students in four schools in an urban, low - income school district both before (fall 2011) and after (fall 2012) the new standards went into effect.

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in urban areas with higher human and mosquito population densities, in years with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-human hosts that result in wasted bites.

Did you know that, according to studies, rural Africans who eat diets high in fiber, eliminate food waste in one - third the time it takes people from urban westernized cultures.

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Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

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Solomon and Anissa Listak, executive director of the recently founded Urban Teacher Residency Institute (UTRI), insist that investing in teacher preparation up front will save the staggering sums wasted by teacher turnover.

I recognize that even in suburban districts some GT programs are poorly run and other issues can exist, but to simply say that «for urban schools, the standard G and T system is often a waste of time» is a truly ridiculous conclusion.

It is my opinion after spending about 40 years teaching elementary school (K — 5th grade in rural, urban, and suburban schools) that standardized testing is a waste of time and resources for many reasons, one of which is that they do not test what you want to know about a child.

«With an increase in urban living, along with consumers» busy lifestyles, more than ever pet parents are looking for hassle - free and advanced waste - management solutions.»

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

In this apocalyptic world, massive earthquakes devastate the planet, laying waste to urban landscapes.

A synthesis of pop and kitsch, focus on producing bricolages out of objects from an urban environment and waste, humor and wit were some of the main subjects prevailing in their works.

Assemblages by John Outterbridge like Ragman, Urban Man, and No Time for Forgiving (with that NO in block wooden capitals) speak of the same streets and of Llyn Foulkes in the burbs or Ed Kienholz up in the Bay Area, as does Raymond Saunders with his waste of news clippings and a flag, and anyway Purifoy worked at the new Watts Towers Arts Center, opened in 1970.

Hyperrealistic paintings which result from a disarming pictorial precision and lead to a melancholy reflection about these new modern urban sceneries, the ones that take shape at street corners, in the suburbs, in the waste of this consumerist era.

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

For Working Back he will show photographic documentation of ephemeral sculptural forms made with things found in proximity to one another in the waste sites that surround the urban environment.

Phyllida Barlow's practice reflects a distinct new direction in contemporary sculpture, one concerned with urban detritus, waste, recycling and a kind of «anti-form».

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

Let people from all over the city participate, and together we'll get some reductions in pollution, waste, and the tyranny of motor vehicles over our urban lives.

Dr. Bullard has authored numerous books on the prominence of waste facilities in predominately African - American areas all over the nation, as well as others that address urban land use, industrial facility siting, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and equity.

I float the idea that folks in and around the tropics use the hashtag #ZikaDengueHotSpot with images showing waste piles or other untended spots creating habitat for the mosquito behind these urban outbreaks.

Species were hunted almost to the point of extinction, making fish far more expensive, and the oceans became a dumping ground for industrial and urban waste, spreading contamination throughout the marine food chain and making it unsafe to eat fish in great quantities.

In developing nations, leaks in urban water systems can waste 50 — 70 percent of the water that should be flowing through their pipeIn developing nations, leaks in urban water systems can waste 50 — 70 percent of the water that should be flowing through their pipein urban water systems can waste 50 — 70 percent of the water that should be flowing through their pipes.

With urban growth outpacing the capacity of municipal dumps, waste management is a major problem in Bogotá and throughout the continent.

The Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI) is a phenomenon whereby the concentration of structures and waste heat from human activity (most notably air conditioners and internal combustion engines) results in a slightly warmer envelope of air over urbanised areas when compared to surrounding rural areas.

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculturIn 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculturin different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculturin urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

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