Sentences with phrase «local environment projects»

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Cadiz CEO Scott Slater told me the project would empower the local community by adding 5,900 new local jobs without harming the environment.

We need to protect the environment by reducing GHGs, and First Nations and local communities in B.C. need the work that our sector can deliver through clean and renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, hydro and biomass.»

Prior to local project approvals, you'll provide the public with a detailed, verified Community Impact Report regarding the project's impacts on jobs, small businesses, housing, the treasury, the environment and public health; and

Eldorado works closely with the local communities where it has mines and projects to create employment opportunities, improve access to education and healthcare, protect the environment and develop infrastructure.

The project is being delivered by a consortium of service providers lead by University of Canberra and includes NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries), Central Tablelands Local Land Services, NSW Department of Primary Industries (Office of Water), University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Green Shoots in North Wales is a partnership project between the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Environment Agency Wales (EAW), the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru (FWAG Cymru) and the Local Biodiversity Action Plan partnerships in North Wales.

The New York State Department of Agriculture and markets and the Erie County Community Development Block Grant program provided key funding for the project, and the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning led the local effort to gather and assess public input with guidance from the Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board;

Deforestation in Indonesia is particularly problematic from a climate perspective because the local flora holds so much carbon, said project leader Lisa Curran, a professor of ecological anthropology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Her job was supported by the French government for the first 2 years, after which she secured funding for an extra year from the Global Environment Facility, an international environmental fund, to use West Africa as a demonstration project for the participation of local communities in the management of biosphere reserves.

Typically local groups including universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) draw up proposals with the help of agencies such as the World Bank or the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which also assist in implementing the projects.

With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the three - year project will empower developing counties to advocate for universal access to reproductive health as a critical component in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in health through increased funding, an improved policy environment and increased visibility for family planning at the local, national and global levels.

Whether you feel passionately about healthcare, children, poverty, or the environment, volunteering with a local project gives you a chance to make a difference while making a date.

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Through a nationally recognized service - learning project, students have become stewards of a local fragile wetland environment.

The 2015 Schools Conference session included Tony Dolan of Curtins discussing «Transport and access issues for school construction projects» and Gareth Woodfin, HLM, discussing inclusion in a session entitled «Challenges faced in designing facilities to accommodate both mainstream and special education needs under one roof and how they were overcome to provide an inclusive learning environment for the local community».

Our aim is to build links enabling the community to become more involved in their local environment, I believe this fun project fulfils that aim.»

One of the best and most widely implemented examples is the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Support the Environment) project, a global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and fauna.

The criteria for the Social Innovation Leadership Award include the following: Effective and sustainable mobilization of resources in support of program and project work, including support from local communities, incorporating ethical values, efficient management of financial and human resources, good governance practices, transparency and accountability, and effective communication, and finally, involvement in communities and protection of the environment.

I went there to inaugurate a chapter of Roots & Shoots, my global network of youth groups that perform local service - learning projects for the betterment of animals, the environment, and the human community.

AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING The Environmental Building Award is given to the school building project that can demonstrate a benefit to both the learning and local environment through ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING The Environmental Building Award is given to the school building project that can demonstrate a benefit to both the learning and local environment through environment through its design.

Delivered to site 85 % complete, the project for Ashville College minimised disruption to the live teaching environment — which has day and boarding pupils - along with the local residential neighbourhood.

The Square of Life project sets students off on a journey to explore their local and global environments by gathering information about the plants, animals, and nonliving objects found in their schoolyard.

Harvard Ed School research project EcoMUVE, a virtual environment educational tool, is shared with children and local community during Cambridge Science Fest 2010.

The project preserves local culture and the environment while promoting rural business initiatives.

The project preserves local culture and the environment while promoting rural business initiatives and stimulating competitiveness through active pedagogies.

Within the local team, each person was responsible for a project (teaching project, environment project, medicine project, etc.).

PBE deepens personalized and project - based learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local community and environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

PBE is also a natural complement to Personalized and Project - Based Learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

The Green Apple Day of Service provides an opportunity to transform all schools into healthy, safe and productive learning environments through local service projects.

With support from JGI, kids in the clubs undertake local projects to improve the environment where they live, as well as examining more global concerns.

In addition to our education programs, VolunQuest sponsors several outreach projects that aid the local community and environment.

This locally - owned sustainable tourism operator supports a range of eco-tourism projects in different local communities, each with a focus on economic development, preserving Mayan culture and protecting the environment.

Through this exciting sea turtle conservation project, volunteers have the opportunity to nurse sea turtles back to health while studying and exploring the captivating local culture and environment of the Osa Peninsula.

Founded in 2008 by The Travel Corporation, the TreadRight Foundation encourages sustainable tourism and has completed more than 40 projects benefitting the environment and local cultures and heritage.

The local people manage this ecotourism project and the profit goes back to them, to be used in culture and environment conservation project.

Our projects focus on helping the local communities, wildlife, indigenous people and the environment in cooperation with the local / indigenous communities.

We sponsor projects that aid the local community and environment.

What's so great about volunteering abroad is that you spend your donations on a worthwhile project of your choice to help out local communities, wildlife and the environment while having a nice (deserved) break venturing in to a new country.

Since 1999, the Hammer Museum's Hammer Projects series has furnished international and local artists with a laboratory - like environment to create new work or to present existing work in a new context.

Educational projects are encouraged, with the intent of nurturing and developing a dynamic environment that promotes cross-pollination between creative and local communities.

Celia Coram, Trustee, Global Generation Global Generation supports young people to generate change in the business and local community to create a sustainable future by implementing interdependent projects to increase awareness of self, community and natural environment.

His project featured the aforementioned animals (not the strange zoo I thought I had seen, but the type of concrete animal sculptures that adorn many South Florida lawns) juxtaposed with the real wildlife (pelicans and gulls) that struggles daily to survive amid and at the edges of the local urban environment.

In addition to the outdoor sculptural works (which apparently remain accessible even in winter) 2016 also saw the start of the Verbier 3 - D Glacier Project, four years of interplay between artists, locals and environmentalists looking at the challenges of climate change and chronicling its impact on the local environment.

PiST / / / Interdisciplinary Project Space is a non-profit art space in Istanbul that produces new and experimental works which explore urban environments, everyday life and public / private space conflicts through collaborative experimental work with local and international art professionals.

Auto Body highlights elements from the local environment and seeks to build community through each project.

Community grants help link forests and people by assisting local communities through forest education programs, and supporting green building projects for low - income families, and other activities that underscore the links between people and their environment.

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What our economy needs right now is a whole lot of green: Green jobs, green projects and green investments that will boost local economies while improving our environment and quality of life.