Sentences with phrase «made transition town»

While she was mostly interested in keeping things out of their local landfill, DiRemigio says that the FreeStore, which is located in the annex of a local Methodist church, has also made Transition Town Media much more widely known throughout their local community.

Not exact matches

The Hammers defender really caught the eye in the Premier League last season, making the smooth transition from Championship football to the top flight after joining from Ipswich Town.

With everyone's schedules jam - packed and getting increasingly more hectic as the holidays approach, it makes sense to have a couple of go - to pieces that can easily transition from work meetings to a movie date, or from shopping to a night out on the town.

When Siren's mother is taken, the town must rally behind her, and help her make a peaceful transition into the water, before the hunters can find out where she is.

And in recent years he's made the transition and proven himself to be a great director (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).

So the five disgraced troopers are brought in by their former Captain, John O'Hagen (Brian Cox), to set up a new patrol station and make sure the town transition is smooth.

After making a surprisingly chilling force of evil in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade, Yoakam, who also co-wrote, makes a disastrous transition to lead status as Val Casey, the marshal of a small western town in the early 1900s.

Apart from a strong supporting role as an FBI agent in Ben Affleck's excellent The Town, Jon Hamm hasn't made the expected transition from the TV success of Mad Men to real film stardom.

As an employee of Career Transition Counseling, Ryan makes his living flying from town to town firing people so that their bosses don't have to.

We know the Caravan will not last much longer as Dodge makes its transition to a performance brand, leaving mainstream duties to Chrysler, but the Town & Country is still a solid pick for those who can't do without sliding doors and seemingly endless cargo space.

Book - to - film is always a risky transition, but the quiet, compelling American Rust, which follos two friends who both long to escape their dying Pennsylvania mining town, might make the jump better than most.

This is a tourist town slowly making a transition from backpacker hideaway to a more mainstream destination.

This suite of small works — started as visual interpretations of his pulp novel Ten High in the early «80s — feature several recurring characters (including one very skinny horse) in a setting that looks like it's already made the transition into a ghost town.

As London makes its gentle autumnal transition from rich green to dark gold, last weekend saw the fair come to London town.

The transition in Searle's focus from the work made as a masters student (Searle received her M.F.A. in 1995)- resin sculptures encasing found objects - started with her piece for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale show in 1997, «Life's Little Necessities», staged at the The Cape Town Castle, when Searle introduced the pentagram shape of the Castle laid out in spices as part of her installation.

Because that initial email provided such a stimulus for me to write a lengthy response, I chose to make my email public (slightly edited) and offer it as an open letter to all Transition Towns.

He is great on the merits of emerging sharing economy models, new public transport systems and town planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mtown planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mTown movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.

Commitments don't need to come from the national or even the state level — every business, every town, every community can make a transition to 100 - percent renewable electricity and it gets us one step closer to creating a safer, more sustainable environment for us all.

Since then, Myles and her fellow Transition Town Media members have helped to make it one of the most robust and successful Transition Initiatives in the United States.

When I posted the trailer for In Transition — the documentary about the Transition Towns movement as a response to peak oil and climate change — commenter CB was less than enamored with the film making style.

But while the Transition Movement has made admirable strides in mobilizing large swathes of the population into environmental action, as was hinted at in the New York Times article on Transition Towns, they are still skewed toward a left - leaning, greeny, liberal and counter-cultural demographic.

(TreeHugger has a lengthy series of posts on the transition town movement that has taken Europe by storm, but which has apparently only begun to make inroads in North America.)

As witnessed by Rob Hopkins» response to Alex Steffens» critique of Transition Towns, this is a movement that is intent on building bridges and making friends.

Rather it's a transition, a wholesale shift in the way we construct our towns and cities, how we move ourselves and goods around, how we make and package the goods we consume (as well as how many of them we purchase), how we grow our food, and more.

By including this information alongside her explorations about town, this website makes it a natural and smooth transition for audiences who go from researching the area to seriously browsing and considering available properties.