Sentences with phrase «local actions around»

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.

Not exact matches

While those actions are targeting the private sector, decisions taken by the government during this year's stock market rout — something that wiped around $ 5 trillion from the value of Chinese listed firms — help explain why looking for signs of stock market manipulation remains a popular investment strategy, and not just from local investors.

Trudeau's government could launch their own legal challenge against B.C. for any actions the province takes, around respecting First Nations right or defending local health and safety.

We have reporters from around the world who are seeing the positive changes, which is why it is so shocking to me that our own local leaders are blind to impact their actions could have on our economic development.

«So the fact is we are doing projects like this, under fire, all around the world and yet in our own country, after a disaster, it literally takes the repeated action of a United States congressman working with a county executive and a great state senator and an assemblymen and local elected officials a-thousand days to get a two - lane bridge replaced.

Alvin is a self - confessed outdoorsman who strives to «reap the rewards of solitude» whereas Lance is a horny youngster who has no interest in sleeping under the stars and counts the hours until the weekend comes around when he can try to get some action with the local «talent».

Between the personal reminiscences with which Anderson, Schwartzman, and Coppola infused the story, the shared trip to India around which it was built, the intermingling of the action with local contingencies, and the wealth of artistic and cinematic references from his own experience, Anderson turned The Darjeeling Limited into a virtual archive of the physical and intellectual process of its production.

Certainly, local TV news broadcasters are ripe for the satirical plucking, and setting the action around the macho insecurities of the late»70s is a smart touch.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

For over two weeks in Lima, WGC and Women's Caucus members participated directly in the negotiations, held press conferences, conducted advocacy trainings, wrote articles, released reports and briefing papers, joined demonstrations and marches and collaborated with dozens of colleagues from around the world who participated through all this action in the COP in Lima or in support activities back home in local communities.

The Summit connects local PTO leaders so they can collaborate on ways to build urgency and action around the role of parents in education.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

Even with all the private company entrepreneurship revolving around Philadelphia School District initiatives lately, local observers expressed surprise at signs that District CEO Paul Vallas himself was appearing to be in on the action.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self - organized TED - style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world - changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

That said, students are more likely to run across the very most empathy - growing books through their local libraries than by merely surfing around at Amazon for the most action - filled potboilers.

Every September for the past 13 years, they have shown the same passion while serving local communities around the world during our annual Responsible Business Action Month, creating a ripple effect of positive impact.

A group of London Hilton hotels plan to mark Earth Hour 2012 from 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 31, 2012 as people and organisations around the world turn off their lights in support of action on global climate change.

He also said that there were only around 10 surfers in the water, we were hoping to catch the Bingin locals in action but we had to take what we could I guess.

According to our source, Blizzard is looking to implement local play with multiple Switches, allowing you to team up for local co-op action as you run around Sanctuary to stop Diablo.

For a few minutes as Drake wanders the dusty streets of a small town in Nepal, he shakes hands with locals, kicks a ball around with kids, investigates the cattle — and all of these actions are instigated by the melee attack button on the joypad.

The site says the following: «Blizzard is looking to implement local play with multiple Switches, allowing you to team up for local co-op action as you run around Sanctuary to stop Diablo.»

This free and public event, themed around «100 Actions for the Future City,» will be a daylong investigation of strategies, ideas, and propositions featuring artist talks, initiatives by local organizations, performances, workshops, and a panel of mayors including Kasim Reed of Atlanta, Gregor Robertson of Vancouver, and Maurice Cox, former mayor of Charlottesville, VA..

In this social action, inspired by a local legend, neighbors tied blue fabric together, creating a single ribbon that wove around homes and other structures until it encircled a peak that overlooked the town.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

EcoChallengers also had the opportunity to choose an action around contributing to building a vision for the local public transportation future.

[ANDY REVKIN says: Another reporter here, Felicity Barringer, is immersed in state and local actions on energy / climate and I'll be doing much more on that front, here and around the world, in coming months.]

Immediately after Trump's announcement, we mobilized hundreds of actions around the U.S. to call for climate action from local governments.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

The Climate Reality Project operates around the world through various branch offices focused on driving local, regional, and planet - wide action for climate solutions.

The 2018 Global Climate Summit, held in San Francisco, will bring together leaders from state, tribal, and local governments, business, and citizens from around the world, to demonstrate how the tide has turned in the race against climate change, showcase climate action taking place around the world, and inspire deeper commitments from each other and from national governments — in support of the Paris Agreement.

On the ground, ICLEI will be also working with local and regional governments to take action in areas that cut across the 2030 Agenda like biodiversity around urban areas and sustainable public procurement.

On Day 2, the first full day of the conference, we heard several inspiring stories from leaders who have stepped up to build coalitions around local food, to facilitate local investing opportunities, to create a lifestyle change action guide, and more.

The campaign seeks to raise awareness about «the crisis - level water shortages, inspire personal action around water usage and advocate for improving local water situations.»

Perhaps the course with the most influence on my life was Menu for the Future, which really solidified my actions around choosing local and organic foods when possible as well as examining packaging and making choices to buy products with minimal packaging.

The different multiplayer modes, available both in local play and online, contain plenty of customization options and revolve around different strategies ranging from the every man for himself action of «Free - for All,» the classic team - based fun of «Capture the Flag and the tactical, team - oriented action of «Search and Destroy,» just to name a few.

You can put a Roost Smart Battery in just about any smoke detector and get nearly all of the benefits that the Roost Smart Smoke Alarm delivers: Alerts on your phone when the detector goes off, the phone number for your local first responders right alongside the alert, alerts sent to monitors you choose who might be able to take action if you're not around, and no more 3AM chirps from a dying smoke - detector battery (you'll get an alert on your phone long before then).

Always review with legal counsel all state and local regulations around the adverse action process.

No longer just a local resume services company, Action Resume Service provides entry, professional and executive level resume services, cover letter writing and professional job search support to customers across the U.S. and around the globe.

One KidsMatter Early Childhood service took an honest look at how they worked with their local neighbours to build positive relationships that supported their action planning and discussions around «Component 1: Creating a sense of community.»