Sentences with phrase «lives near a plant»

However, according to this NY1 / YNN - Marist Poll, nearly half of residents who live near the plant — 49 % — oppose closing it.

Do you live near a plant?

That transition is inevitable though, and if Tobin wants to act in the interests of the people who live near the plant, he could help them to secure solar and wind that experts tell us are cost - effective and would greatly benefit both the Navajo and Hopi people.

And more often than not the people who live near the plants said they just wanted to better understand what was happening in the plants, and wanted to know that they were being well - maintained and regulated.

«Living next to a coal - fired power plant is sort of like the neighbor from hell moving in,» Marti Blake, who lives near a plant in Springdale, Pennsylvania, once told us.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

I live near a Tyson plant.

Our family isn't vegetarian (we eat seafood and sometimes organic dairy) but we eat a mostly plant based diet and live in Thailand, where there are pockets of vegans who run restaurants near the temples.

By 2000 Pacific Farms scaled back their commercial production (which they hope to restart in the near future), but they still grow plants for customers who want to grow wasabi as a hobby (six live plants for $ 22.95 plus shipping).

Nature Foundation SA has begun pumping Commonwealth environmental water on to the floodplains and wetlands that support vulnerable plant and animal life near the Murray River National Park and downstream of Chowilla floodplain in South Australia's Riverland.

To overcome the shortcomings of the live export trade, a new processing plant is being built near Darwin and another is mooted for far north west Queensland.

The Des Plaines trail meanders through areas such as Van Patten Woods, a popular family destination near Zion, as well as unusual natural areas such as the Wadsworth Demonstration Project, where the river winds through a living laboratory to study wetland restoration, and MacArthur Woods near Libertyville, home to endangered plants.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

Residents argued that the bicyclists damaged plant life, caused an increase in criminal incidents and, in general, disturbed the quality of life near the natural area.

«It's important that we shut it down,» said movie actor James Cromwell, who lives near the CPV site and earlier in the summer was arrested during a sit - in in front of the plant and sentenced to seven days in jail.

Some people living near the Kraft Foods manufacturing plant in Walton are worried the factory could soon cut jobs.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- As nuclear plant issues arise in Japan those who live near the Indian Point power plant can't help but wonder if it could happen here.

The governor should use his State of the State address to defend why upstaters living close to those plants are less vulnerable than downstaters living near Indian Point.

Researchers found that people living near Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island exhibited higher levels of stress more than a year after the nuclear plant's 1979 incident compared with individuals outside the area.

Children under five living near a chemical plant in West Virginia were found to have higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers

Children living near the site of Tomsk - 7 are being evacuated as the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that plutonium was released by the explosion at the Siberian nuclear plant earlier this month.

complains Doris Smith, who lives near the Pantex plant and is a spokeswoman for a local opposition group, the Panhandle Area Neighbors and Landowners.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

The birds apparently have been poisoned by eating worms living in contaminated soil near the old chemical plant.

True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.

Across the world's oceans, seas and coasts, tens of millions of tonnes of it are released by microbes that live near plankton and marine plants, including seaweeds and some salt - marsh grasses.

That could help explain why so many of Earth's plants and animals went extinct around this time, even those living nowhere near the impact crater (SN: 2/4/17, p. 16).

And just like people, plant species tend to be most like their closest relatives, and to live quite near them too.

Thus, even some plant species may be able to keep pace with quick climate changes in the near future if they live in the right spot now.

In an article in the Houston Chronicle announcing your appointment, Juan Parras, an activist who lives near Houston's refineries and chemical plants, said you will need «the guts and fortitude to challenge those who need to be challenged.»

For instance, people living near refineries are exposed to more nickel and vanadium, while those near coal - fired power plants breathe particles with higher sulfate content.

A new map from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shows the long - term radiation risks to people living near Japan's ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The world's largest stockpile of plutonium lives at a nuclear reprocessing plant in England near the coast of the Irish Sea.

Existing power stations near the end of their working lives are ready to be decommissioned, while a new wave of plants has been given the go ahead.

Judging by other fossils discovered near the location where the R. eurasiaticusfossil was found, the multituberculate apparently lived in a temperate area rich in plants by the shores of shallow lakes.

Most of the research has been done on folks with very high exposures, including those who lived near chemical plants in West Virginia and Ohio, where drinking water had become contaminated.

We are exposed to toxins from a wide array of sources including fish and seafood, cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes from vehicles, dental fillings, flu vaccines, jet fuel (especially if you live near a major airport), manufacturing plants, pesticides, crop dusting, fertilizers, fungicides, motor oil and more.

If you live in a high - pollution area or near a nuclear power plant, you certainly should consider taking additional antioxidant supplements as a daily measure of prevention.

What will happen to the people living near the Arkema chemical plant, who were there when it exploded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey?

A 2014 Japanese study revealed that 57 children living near the Fukushima nuclear power plant that was damaged in 2011 had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and 46 were suspected to have the disease, as well.

Not that it matters, as the giant plant life that covers the ruins has taken to consuming whatever comes near, like a giant Venus flytrap with a hunger for human flesh.

Tell students that half the groups will research information about animal life in or near the river (s); the other half will research information about plant life in or near the river (s).

Idea 1: For younger students: Have students create a picture book about the animal and plant life in or near local rivers.

In addition to promoting a few catnip products in various sections of the cat aisle, Mark Teixeira, president of Bell Rock Growers, suggests retailers place live catnip plants up front near the register.

Of course, it is easier to get beef pancreas if you live near a beef processing plant.

• ON APPEARANCE: In addition to setting up a live «pond mannequin,» Miller said retailers should purposefully merchandise their artificial plants near the live plants.

Sensible Habitats (Grades K - 1) >> Fort Point Take your nature detectives on an intriguing investigation near the Golden Gate to uncover the rich diversity of human, plant, and animal life.

I'm Brittany, a 20 - something year old living simply near a small town in the Canadian prairies, who loves traveling independently and deeply, exploring off the beaten path both locally in my province of Manitoba and beyond, eating and cooking healthy, plant - based and gluten - free foods and meals, taking photographs, learning about foreign cultures, languages and cuisines, and seeking meaningful experiences and authentic adventures wherever I go.

Of the two unrealized endeavors, the first comprised a planting of buttercups and would have occupied a large area in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, near where Sandback was living at the time, in 1970.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,