Sentences with phrase «make urban air»

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

«It is crucial for city and national governments to make urban air quality a health and development priority,» said Carlos Dora, from WHO.

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But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

For example, greening neighbourhoods or painting roofs lighter colours will both reduce the urban heat - island effect and reduce carbon - dioxide emissions through reduced air - conditioning costs, while making cities more resistant to storm damage would reduce emissions generated from rebuilding devastated areas.»

Some is of their own making, like cigarette smoke, but a lot of it they can not avoid, like lead in old paint and smoggy urban air.

«Without the new computing power made possible by Yellowstone, you can not depict the necessary detail of future changes in air chemistry over small areas, including the urban centers where most Americans live.»

«Children spend nearly 80 percent of their time indoors, which makes understanding the effects of indoor air very important,» said co-author, Gregory B. Diette, MD, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment.

Anderson can't help but turn the open - air, urban setting into yet another deathtrap tunnel system, and CGI aerial shots dot Pompeii's opening stretch, showing the complex grid of roads, narrow streets, and aqueducts which make up a Roman city — and through which, of course, the characters will eventually have to escape.

From Philadelphia, Baltimore and Minneapolis to Denver and San Diego there are fresh air options within National Wildlife Refuges making it easy for families to escape from urban chaos.

Inversion is a cover - based action adventure, combined third person tactical shooter that aims to try and shock you or surprise you with the «oh look at me I'm floating in air, shock, panic, shoot just shoot at them» approach which does break up some of the generic monotamy in - between chapters, but the bland urban scenery and dare we say buildings that actually are a fifty shades of grey in colour without the excitement or realism of an alien onslaught — make it feel at times more of a chore.

Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

Kate and Clarity talk to him in his Brooklyn studio about the sociology of urban plein air painting, gentrification in New York City, and how being in therapy and drawing his «dream emotions» made him a better artist.

An open - air exhibition that takes inspiration from the High Line as an urban park cutting straight through the city, creating new vistas and vantage points onto the surrounding natural and man - made landscapes.

Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971) in the then - neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land in New York (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passersby in the streets of New York from a self - made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived as a founding member of the New York - based Anarchitecture group.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

Humans have made a great number of impacts on the land stretching from prevention of catastrophic wildfires, to Urban Heat Islands, to denuding the land, and pollution of the air and water.

It really matters to making policy how much of the warming is from CO2, and how much is from methane, land use changes, urban island (asphalt, concrete, air conditioning, etc.), carbon black, solar changes (sun activity lower and heliosphere at low level), or the catch all — natural variability.

packed with common problems awaiting for solutions - global warming, urban air pollution, contaminants in drinking water / contains samples of distributions of variables, it is actually a very large Bayesian belief network, which can be used for assessment - level analyses and conditioning and optimising different decision / and discussions about the actual topics related to real - world decision - making, there is also a meta level in Opasnet.

Whatever the average regional temperature, it's hotter in the cities, because concentrations of traffic, business, heating, cooking, lighting and air conditioning generate what has become known as the urban heat island effect: what makes this worse is that the asphalt, tarmacadam, stone, brick, glass and tile of which cities are made absorb radiation but prevent ground evaporation as a natural cooling device.

Adding living greenery to our urban buildings in the form of vertical gardens not only helps to make cities more beautiful, but also serves the practical purpose of producing extra oxygen and cleaning the air.

This means that just by targeting these dirty old clunkers, badly tuned rust - buckets, and street racers, we could make a significant impact on air quality, especially in urban areas where the density of vehicles gets high enough for pollutant concentrations to reach dangerous levels.

But many European cities have found the answer to be fairly simple: make it harder (and / or costlier) to park.According to a new study by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, innovative parking policies in Europe are allowing cities to enjoy «revitalized town centers, big reductions in car use, drops in air pollution, and rising quality of urban life.»

That same transpiration of stormwater helped turn urban hot air into a cooler breeze that made the summer streets more welcoming.