Sentences with phrase «local action»

Clearly, it's time for local action to address a problem of global significance.

While supporting regional collaboration it clearly highlights the importance of local action in the drive for sustainable growth and recommends practical actions for planning and development.

Look for similar projects that help your students build global competencies while taking local action.

Recently, the company has taken storytelling to the next stage, using visual images as well as sounds and smells to draw customers into local action for sustainability.

The goal of this guide is to inspire both teachers and students to connect local issues to global concerns and inspire local action.

We must demand local action to set things right.

Should you stop using your energy to debate on social media, and channel it toward local action?

The rest of us will likely need a combined approach that encourages national action where possible and local action where we have the resources to arrange it.

With its five - on - five teams, two - player local action and vibrant cut - scenes, it was a must - own in its day.

Children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness need your active involvement in the legislative process — without local action, there can be no progress.

The association is also providing opportunities for local action.

There have been a number of local actions against us, and we've won them all.

But we wanted this report to concentrate minds, translating academic understanding into local action.

This watering action will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

[ANDY REVKIN says: As I said in my talk, the main benefits of local actions on energy and related issues (transportation, sprawl) would be economic or social, with the grand challenge of climate stability ---- This is a joke right??? — as I said zero change in global temperature would result ---

To realize its mission to enhance and share humanity's scientific understanding of the Universe, the AAS calls on all its members to take local action in support of dark skies.

by Deborah McNamara on September 21, 2015 0 Change is our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions climate events Climate Week 2015 how to create climate solutions how to take action to address climate change how to take local action leading up to Paris climate talks

Because in our interdependent and rapidly evolving world all actions impact on one another; even local actions can have global and long - term consequences.

Councillor Trevor Norton (District Council of Loxton Waikerie), Craig Ferber (Project Manager, Loxton to Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Committee), Michelle Campbell (Local Engagement Officer, Commonwealth Environmental Water Office) and Ian Atkinson (Chief Executive Officer, Nature Foundation South Australia) watching environmental water flowing into a wetland at Loxton Riverfront Reserve in 2014.

· To change the behavior of LDCs, domestic constituencies must be developed within these countries that understand the connection between local actions and global environmental problems.

NWEI's New Hampshire based partner organization, Global Awareness Local Action, will be hosting Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability January 26th through February 9th, 2012.

This will involve working with six local authorities including their local safeguarding children boards to develop and support them to implement local action plans.

Avance Coffee Conference October 11 - 12, 2017 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director of Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods, will be a speaker on Climate Change: Reconciling Global and Local Actions at this conference hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association.

Ahead of the next round of global climate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for the biggest event the world has seen to encourage local action on climate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 September.

In addition to overseeing production of NYSUT's annual Representative Assembly, Program Services also works to develop and administer NYSUT's nationally - recognized leadership training and local union programs - the NYSUT Local Action Project (LAP) and the NYSUT Leadership Institute.

To build on these victories, the Fossil Free movement is preparing to launch a new wave of local actions around the world to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate the shift to community - run renewable energy.

Most community groups never get beyond small local actions and, even when a spark catches fire, as in the case of the Occupy movement, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast.

Our ultimate goal is to catalyze collective local action to realign control of air, land and water.

If the state had preempted local action on that issue, we may not have had the national ban we have today.»

Any improvement will require local actions and investment: it is impossible to legislate for the necessary «culture change».

«Our results can empower people in the Coral Triangle region and throughout Oceania, where millions of people rely directly on coral reef fisheries and desperately need improved management, to take effective local actions that help ensure their own food security,» the scientists conclude.

«You can't prove quantum mechanics, but local realism, or hidden local action, is incompatible with our experiment,» NIST's Krister Shalm says.

JSIS also links global issues to local action through International Action Day, which recently focused on global access to water, and the Green Team, which encourages schoolwide actions to support environmental sustainability.

Chiefs can use soft power — like identifying pressing local problems and convening local leaders — to then support local actions meant to preempt the state's use of hard power.

Erik monitors federal, state and local actions affecting charter schools.

It requires imaginative new governance models and eliminating rules that impede local action, bold new approaches to using federal and state funds, and savvy political strategies.

To respond to this need for actionable knowledge at the local level, IDRA has developed a web - based portal that can be used by community - school partners as they craft a shared vision; assess local needs and assets; identify proven practices that strengthen school holding power; develop ways to implement, monitor and evaluate local actions plans; and build inclusive enduring partnerships to sustain momentum and action.

Dubbed «local action research projects,» they included such surveys as «What Do You Think of Our School's Mathematics Program?»

SAN FRANCISCO, CA: The global challenges of our time demand local action now: reinvigorated community involvement, renewed civic spirit, and YOU!

It is still relevant today too with the local multiplayer scene growing, but the online world is a much bigger one and the exclusion of any online capabilities in favour of local action leaves this game throwing a few duds.

Up to eight Joy - Cons can be connected to a Switch for some truly frantic local action, or four Switches can link with two Joy - Cons each, again resulting in the same scenario.