Sentences with phrase «more rural projects»

«The «industrial chic» look works well with open shelves and suspended features, while in more rural projects, we might use materials such as timber and wicker.

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Increasing use of herbicides exposing more women and children to harmful pesticides throughout the Midwest A new project of the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) highlights growing concern over sharply rising herbicide use and risks to pregnant women and children living in the rural Midwest.

In his speech, Poloncarz says even more can be done to promote projects in small villages and communities, improve Main Streets and continue to provide transportation to senior citizens in rural areas, but he says that could be threatened thanks to the proposed elimination of community development block grants by the Trump Administration.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

Among her priorities are grant - funded projects that link youth and seniors; keeping taxes low; a more vibrant Main Street, with art galleries and other producing businesses; an enhanced atmosphere of respect within town government; and keeping the rural character of Gardiner intact.

The project had collected genetic samples from more than 2,000 people living in the same rural areas that their grandparents had called home.

The Ogallala Initiative, a U.S. Department of Agriculture project, funds studies designed to make the agricultural industry — and the rural communities that depend on it — more sustainable.

«Cities tend to be warmer than their rural surroundings; they retain more heat,» says Jason Schatz, a graduate student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and affiliate of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) project, who co-authored the study with WSC lead investigator, Chris Kucharik.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

More than 65 percent of the most recent TIGER grants awarded went to rural, or mixed urban - rural projects like yours.

(A) IN GENERAL. - Of the total amount of funds made available to carry out this chapter for each fiscal year, not more than 10 percent shall be set aside for rural infrastructure projects.»

In addition, all applicants for TIFIA credit assistance (other than in connection with projects to capitalize a rural projects fund within a SIB) must demonstrated that the construction contracting process for the project can commence no more than 90 days after the execution of a TIFIA credit instrument.

[205] As noted above, 23 U.S.C. § 608 (a)(3)(A) limits TIFIA budget authority available for Rural Projects receiving the reduced interest rate to not more than 10 percent of the total TIFIA budget authority in any fiscal year.

With more than 100 paintings and photographs from the 1920's to the 40's and four contemporary environmental projects (including one by Maya Lin), this exhibition homes in on the utopian, isolationist, rural face of the Midwest.

The measures will support the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s latest «Amazing Thailand Go Local» campaign, a landmark project to promote the kingdom's emerging generation of secondary destinations, better balance the distribution of tourist arrivals between urban and rural areas, even out the seasonality factor between the months of travel, and encourage more travel during weekdays to reduce pressure on the weekends.

LCW: Norte Maar's projects seem more edgy than the normal artistic fare one encounters in conservative rural communities.

Researching the growing, harvesting and processing of kenaf and fund raising for a humanitarian rural agriculture project that will advance kenaf worldwide and assist many more farmers and communities than just those included in the project

This includes projects that provide safe drinking water to communities, so they no longer have to boil water, the provision of clean energy to rural communities, support for sustainable agriculture that improves yields and incomes or more efficient cookstoves that save families money on fuel bills and reduce their exposure to toxic fumes.

One of the more promising findings came from Africa, where the number of offsets from projects that promote the use of clean cookstoves among the rural poor surged at least 40 % and probably much more.

GRID has more than ten years of experience with successful and sustainable rural electrification projects.

These changes combined with higher sea levels and associated storm surges, more intense droughts, and increased precipitation variability are projected to lead to increased stresses to water, agriculture, economic activities and urban and rural settlements (high confidence).

And this is just the beginning: with massive wind projects under development across its northern and eastern provinces, and 19 ultra-high-voltage transmission projects connecting windy rural areas to population centers (all to be completed by 2014), more milestones lie ahead in China.

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Inequities between urban and rural power customers also need to be addressed: rural Ontario is being penalized by being forced to host wind power projects and then charged more money for electricity.

This project will leverage several innovative components — including a robust practice management platform, video conferencing, and built - in document assembly — to more effectively serve rural clients throughout the state and provide volunteer lawyers with a more convenient opportunity to assist New Mexicans in need.

«Some applicants are interested in sharing a student,» says REAL project manager Angela McCue, who wrestles annually with the logistics of getting more second - year law students and articling students into rural high - needs areas, especially those where legal aid services are needed.

The project enables a network of utility companies and household generators to serve rural populace more effectively.

Some suggestions for how researchers and health services might do a better job of engaging with Aboriginal patients and communities have come from a research project spanning rural, regional... Read more

However, there likely will be investment «tiers» that develop with high - demand urban projects garnering top prices and lower - demand projects — oftentimes smaller projects in more rural areas — commanding lower prices.

To qualify, foreign entrepreneurs must invest at least $ 1 million (or $ 500,000, if the investment is in a rural area) in projects that stand to create full - time jobs for 10 or more workers.