Sentences with phrase «local ecosystems from»

Gilded with steel keeping the now hollowed 800 - year - old Western Red Cedar from toppling, the stalwart stands as a symbol encouraging the protection of vulnerable environments and reminds local residents of their victories won to protect local ecosystems from irresponsible de-forestation.

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Aiming to connect migrant and refugee entrepreneurs with Egypt's local ecosystem, the event gathered over 250 entrepreneurs from from Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Eritrea, Sudan and South Su...

in Puerto Rico, we are witnessing an infectious positivity flowing from local governments in support of developing strong local startup ecosystems, which is creating benefits for entire countries, economies and societies.

He built this team and established the market presence and ecosystem for FireEye in Japan from scratch, achieving $ 6M in revenue in the first year and growing it to $ 35M revenue with 100 + local employees in three years.

Urban Station developed a proposal that combines specially designed spaces and services with a physical platform where freelancers, entrepreneurs and companies from different industries can conduct their activities in a flexible manner, concerning themselves only with their work, with the possibility of joining a community charged with entrepreneurial energy in an ecosystem that brings together entities like Endeavor, Tedex, Start Up Chile with entrepreneurs from every sector, multinationals and local companies, transcending borders and strengthening the network.

Foundation will host the Celebration, featuring leading speakers from the local and regional ecosystem.

Apart from supporting local farmers, businesses and economies through modern solutions like blockchain and digital currencies, the FoodCoin Ecosystem connects people on a personal level that's becoming increasingly uncommon in an indifferent global eEcosystem connects people on a personal level that's becoming increasingly uncommon in an indifferent global ecosystemecosystem.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

From June 2010 — December 2015, I was the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, (AFSA) which is Australia's first national alliance of producers, local food businesses, community gardeners, farmers market coordinators, food social enterprises, local governments, health professionals and many others who share a vision of a food system based on the values of fairness to all, health and well - being, and ecosystem integrity.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

Cleaning up local beaches is critical to preventing plastic debris from entering the ecosystems and polluting waterways.

The plan to drill fire suppression wells would not harm the local ecosystem, environmental groups said, though they added that conducting more «controlled burns» more often would help prevent future fires from getting out of control.

On the side lines of these engagements, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) will gather members of the full local ecosystem — from investors to academia to established and emerging entrepreneurs alike — for an entrepreneurship ecosystem event.

How Mercury Gets into Seafood Scientists have known how mercury from industrial pollution affects local freshwater ecosystems and poses a human health threat [see «Mapping Mercury»; SciAm, September 2005].

Local communities and land - owners will benefit not only from regular payments but also from the benefits that a flourishing ecosystem brings.

Eradication appears impossible, and they threaten everything from coral reef ecosystems to local economies that are based on fishing and tourism.

From the ocean, the fresh water flows into the Greenland fjords where is influence local circulation with impacts on the production and ecosystem structure.

Ice core data from the poles clearly show dramatic swings in average global temperatures, but researchers still don't know how local ecosystems reacted to the change.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

The study confirms experience from European heathlands and other REDD + projects in the tropics, that ecosystem services such as timber production and carbon sequestration often compromise other services, such as biodiversity and local livelihoods.

According to Beard, their paper in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds light on a poorly documented interval of our own evolutionary history, and shows climate and environmental change can utterly alter a local ecosystem — from a wet, subtropical forest in the Eocene to a dry desert today.

But closely related tortoises from the neighboring Seychelles archipelago have been imported recently, and they have helped restore the island ecosystem, including bringing back the endangered local ebony trees.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

The Convention seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, including threats from climate change, through scientific assessments, the development of tools, incentives and processes, the transfer of technologies and good practices and the full and active involvement of relevant stakeholders including indigenous and local communities, youth, NGOs, women and the business community.

Launched in early 2017, CBCAN is now an established forum regularly bringing together industry experts, university tech transfer officers, researchers and others from the local and extended biomedical ecosystem to help promising discoveries that may have commercial potential move forward in the pipeline towards commercialization.

Marist is partnering with the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies to host a pilot project aimed at increasing the number of local high school students from underrepresented groups entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers.

AnimalKind lesson plan 10 (from a set of 23) View / order the accompanying resources and AnimalKind film at: www.AnimalKind.org.uk Objectives: • To understand that the local environment (school grounds) affords a variety of habitats that meet the basic needs of a range of animals and plants, which depend on each other in an interconnected way called an ecosystem.

Cats play a complex role in local ecosystems and can not simply be removed from any environment without consequences.

Science clears cats of blame — studies prove that cats are not a significant threat (especially when compared to the very real dangers from human activities) and that they actually play important roles in balancing the local ecosystem.

When a prairie dog colony is decimated by plague, the effects reverberate through the entire local ecosystem, from animals to plants and even the soil.

Although the park is located 300 miles away from the nearest major airport, you will still find healthy, delicious cuisine in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem that is both good for the environment and the local community.

Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project...» We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools — among many others.

Not only will you meet some great people (my recent trip had a combination of Maui locals who've been on Haleakala countless times as well as first timers from the mainland), but you'll learn about the delicate ecosystem and other features of the wilderness from local experts, and spend some time helping preserve this unique place.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

The strongest argument being that ocean acidification from anthropogenic CO2 released to atmosphere is the greatest threat to the ecosystems of the world's oceans - far greater than the very slight local risk that might arise if a sub sea bed geological storage site leaked.

With a joint management plan both countries will be able to benefit from each other's experience and cooperate in the sustainable management of ecosystems and related services of shared characteristics for the benefits of local communities.

What are the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, of which added CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a part, but also from other social and environmental issues?

It is just one of many tools and practices that make up a regenerative agricultural system and bring many benefits to local ecosystems and the people involved from production to consumption.

regenerative agricultural system and bring many benefits to local ecosystems and the people involved from production to consumption.

«The ACR Nested REDD + Standard is built on 15 years of work by Winrock around the world, providing technical assistance and building local capacity to design and implement science - based methods to measure, monitor and report carbon emission reductions from forests,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, director and chief scientist of Winrock International's Ecosystem Services group and Dr. Nancy Harris, lead scientists for the Standard.

Forest protection projects help to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, but healthy forests also preserve diverse ecosystems, and sustain healthy waterways for local people.

Investment - operating costs and salaries of professionals tasked with building / brokering private equity investment in market - friendly GGR approaches which have a license to operate, e.g. from growth capital in an advancing Direct Air Capture company, to structuring the local community - led financing of an ecosystem restoration initiative.

Nuclear power plants are always near water and the neighboring river, lake or ocean sees its local temperatures rise because of the warm water returned from the power plant, threatening the local ecosystems.

«Losses or gains in forest cover shape many important aspects of an ecosystem including, climate regulation, carbon storage, biodiversity and water supplies, but until now there has not been a way to get detailed, accurate, satellite - based and readily available data on forest cover change from local to global scales.»

Integrating different local and national levels of action has come to be referred to as «nesting» and is important for a number of reasons, all of which are laid out in a new report from Forest Trends (publisher of Ecosystem Marketplace) and Climate Focus entitled Nested Approaches to REDD + An Overview of Issues and Options.

Great examples include children, freed from the task of collecting water and firewood, able to attend school and benefit from education; farmers able to support their families with improved yields due to better land management and sustainable farming practices; or the reintroduction of a locally - extinct species due to ecosystem improvement and education of local communities.

That's the word from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance, which says several key safeguards, as well as explicit language protecting intact forests, are missing: According to ECA, safeguards for transparent forest government structures, for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, for conservation of biodiversity all have not been finalized — considering that many of the countries which will benefit from REDD have weak governance to start with, ECA describes these as «gaping holes» that need to be closed.