Sentences with phrase «like planting trees»

With the bulk of the work on buildings like the Steve Jobs Theater now complete, workers are now moving on to landscaping elements, like planting the trees that will decorate the massive HQ.

But at Nest we believe activities like planting trees should be in addition to reducing your own emissions — not instead of it.

That means Hawaii would offset more carbon dioxide than it produces, through activities like planting trees, which can essentially store carbon, the greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

And the trees they plant on Oct. 24 are symbolic of the passion they have to change the world by combining small efforts like planting trees and large ones like developing a sustainable transportation fuel.

In essence, they pay somebody else not to pollute, or they pay for activities like planting trees that are assumed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The app allows you to pledge to complete an act of green like Planting a Tree (you could even plant your own Christmas tree like Lisa from Condo Blues is going to do!)

For a real life analogy — a SIP investment is like planting a tree, watering it and watching it grow over the years to give you fruits.

I also liked the plant a tree idea.

Not exact matches

Olnick said FPL would like to see a change in state laws and local ordinances to adopt and enforce «Right Tree, Right Place,» to ensure trees aren't planted too close to lines and equipment and allow FPL access to remove those trees.

Whenever we have big down days and it seems like the bull market is on its last legs, I remind myself of this line from Martin Luther King: «Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.»

Like his analogy, I was faithfully planting acorns, patiently clinging to the promise that decades later they may bear fruit in the form of an oak tree in the lives of healthy people and healthy churches.

He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn't fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green.

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»

The Holy Book told us that a word of kindness is like a Tree of a Good Seed that we plant and that we will hearvest... while a bad hurting word is like a Tree of a bad seed.

The believers are like fruit bearing trees that have been planted by the Lord in the paradise.

This seems like a simple thing and some might call it silly, but planting a tree has a pretty significant impact environmentally.

Not to mention a flood as massive as the one described in the bible would have wiped out all flora as well, did noah get all the different types of plants, trees, algea and the like on board to make sure those survived as well?

It is said that you can not teach anyone what they do not know already; and Jesus, being a good teacher, has reached back into the tradition that he shares with the young man and pointed out what both of them know: If you would be like a tree planted by rivers of water, learn to know, love, and obey the Law of God.

It is like asking if God knew Eve would eat the apple then why did he plant the tree.

You are like a tree planted by the river bringing forth fruit in it's season.

They had small, elongated, piquin - like fruits on short shrubby plants that were still found in association with mesquite trees and hackberries.

We've got lots of herbs and chives and toms planted as well as onions, beans, strawberries and some fruit trees which are FINALLY looking like they'll produce something edible this year.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

My fav photo is driving through Puna - I love roads surrounded by plants and trees, it feels like adventure!

I've seen hibiscus trees for sale at garden stores, plants like this one that have been pruned into a 3 or 4 foot tall tree.

The earliest the first harvest can take place is eight years after planting, when young trees — like those pictured here — yield about 5 kgs (11 lbs) of dry cinnamon.

That said, some plant foods have a higher bioavailability of protein compared to other plant foods so if you want to increase your plant protein, here are 10 rich sources: lentils, beans, peanuts, tree nuts (such as cashews and almonds), seeds (such as hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sesame seeds), quinoa, leafy greens, nutritional yeast, tofu and tempeh, wild rice, and green vegetables like broccoli.

«The greatest demand is for sheep meat and wool, dry land cropping and irrigated row cropping (at scale) and permanent plantings like tree nuts and citrus,» Mr Thomas said.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Henriette: «Good agricultural practices farmers can adopt to better cope with the effects of climate change include things like planting shade trees, implementing efficient irrigation methods and covering the soil with compost to make it more resilient.»

The same plants I recognized from my days at Noma and in Copenhagen, like the bolted vegetable flowers, the chickweed, and the Norway spruce tree.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

The baccatum plants tend to stand out in the garden like small trees.

, I'm starting to see our hosta and peony plants push up through the ground, and it looks like all the flowering trees on our street are about to burst.

Plants don't always seem like the most interesting of topics to study, but there are lots of brilliant, hands - on activities which are fantastic for learning about different types of flowers, trees and plants and the conditions they need toPlants don't always seem like the most interesting of topics to study, but there are lots of brilliant, hands - on activities which are fantastic for learning about different types of flowers, trees and plants and the conditions they need toplants and the conditions they need to grow.

If you haven't started this tradition for your older children, you can still include them by planting a tree to recognize a special occasion like kindergarten graduation, a birthday or a holiday.

Never have I seen a peach year like this one in Maine, and how grateful we were for our mighty two trees, planted just three years ago.

An eco-friendly foam and innerspring mattresses like the ones sold by Naturpedic tend to be made with fewer chemicals, plastics, and PVC (vinyl), and a greater percentage of renewable and sustainable materials, such as cotton, fast - growing bamboo, coir, plant - based foam, and natural latex (rubber from tree sap that's been injected with air).

It can also be healing to do something special to honor your baby like a dedicated memorial stone at the zoo, planting a tree, create a blog or a website, celebrating birthdays, holding on to mementos, also wearing pins, getting tattoos, or applying car stickers of remembrance can help to heal as well.

Or, another option is to plant the placenta beneath a tree like Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves.

Although village trustees said they liked the district's landscaping plan, which would retain about 60 trees and plant 95 new trees, several board members said they would not approve the park plan unless the district made aesthetic changes to the proposed shelter.

Since we homeschool, it's great on sunny days like today when we can be outside learning about clouds, birdwatching, checking out different types of trees and plants, playing with our chickens and breathing in all that fresh, spring air.

I particularly like the Truffula Tree Cutters engineered with Lego and the planting seeds projects.

Another unique gift of flowers for the mom is a flowering bush, like a rose bush or a flowering tree, to be planted in the yard or in a planter on the patio.

In honor of Earth Day, we'll plant a tree for every new person who «Likes» CREDO on Facebook between Earth Day (April 22, 2011) and the end of the month (up to a max of 75,000 trees)

At least you guys have proven that you are not being paid for just planting trees like some «False Prophetic Journalists» keep telling us.

The former mayor commended the work of Midler, the Broadway icon who helped start the New York Restoration project — a public - private partnership between the city and major donors, like Bloomberg and David Rockefeller, who pushed the tree planting effort.

I am like a tree planted by the bank of a river that brings forth its fruits in due season.»

Liverworts are a group of ground - hugging plants with male and female reproductive structures shaped like tiny palm trees.

As an arbuscule is formed, new plant and fungal membrane must be generated, like the bark on the extending branches of a growing tree.