Sentences with phrase «more urban life»

Here a more urban life is matched with efficient clean energy sources, less driving in more efficient cars, better building technology and green utilities.
A recent analysis by industry watcher IHS and French think tank Futuribles suggests a likely culprit: a trend toward more urban living.

Not exact matches

Yet urban living offers many opportunities for society to craft a more sustainable way of living and working.
The resulting standard of living in the most expensive urban area, Manhattan, was more than twice the national average at 223.9 percent, whereas the cost of living in the least expensive urban area is 20 percent below the national average.
«We see millennial buyers in urban areas selling their cars,» said Stokes, adding that these buyers are also more open than ever to living in areas that aren't right next to a metro station.
As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.
The more he seems to be isolated from the urban life, the more customers believe in Burt's Bees» commitment to be «natural.»
This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.
Compared with the general population, more entrepreneurs have a college education, and proportionally more live in urban areas.
In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.
Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.
The larger benefits for millennials are mainly because of cost of living increases, more years of benefits due to longer lifespans, and better and more expensive health care, said C. Eugene Steuerle, an economist with the Urban Institute who co-authored the analysis.
And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.
Terminus, which leases 3,000 square at Atlanta Tech Village, wanted to remain in Buckhead because of the submarket's ability to recruit young skilled talent from Atlanta's urban core and the more senior talent who live in the northern suburbs.
Apparel Stores Changing consumer tastes and the transition to online / mobile shopping is making life tough for some companies, like Urban Outfitters, which is down more than -30 % on the year.
A few weeks ago: arriving at an urban tent camp where more than 50,000 people live.
As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.
Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living
And a visionary architect in Arizona was projecting architectural ecologies (or «arcologies») which could use the earth's resources more frugally while providing a more humane context for urban life.
Unless we make our large, complex urban centers into something more than grab bags of opportunities, nothing — not enterprise zones, new housing projects or more police officers — will make them good places to live.
«Left conservatives» or «Red Tories,» for example, accept Marx's analysis while aiming at something like Burke's more traditionalist or organic vision — a return to less calculating, more chivalrous, less laborious, less urban and more pastoral, more loving and familial, more pious ways of life.
Ampontan has some nice juxtapositions, jumping off Victor Davis Hanson among others, highlighting the culture - and - mores - rooted FACT that Greece, Southern Italy, Detroit, and urban Britain are simply more difficult and troublesome places to live than Germany, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and of....
My second child was a bit more of a challenge because we lived across the street from a busy urban fire station, but eventually, he, too, became a twelve - hour sleeper.
Most refugees, once they flee to a neighboring country, live in refugee camps or in urban settings, where they may stay for 10 years or more.
Like many urban young people today, they had to endure that scandal, and to make life even more difficult, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee their hometown with their son to a neighboring nation as immigrants to escape persecution and genocide.
«We also take more seriously the right of the small sheep - owners in big forests to continue to live «where they belong» on a traditional level as ecologically on a higher level than their urban critics» («Encouraging» 54).
Even more vulnerable than refugees living in camps, are those hidden in the shadows of urban areas.
But the new Pope, Urban VI, antagonized many of the cardinals by commanding them to live in the posts whose titles they bore and to give up the profitable pluralism — enjoying the revenues of two or more offices without fulfilling their functions or doing so only through poorly paid substitutes — which made possible their luxurious existence in Avignon.
Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.
She yearned for a more glittery and urban life.
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In fact, those living in remote areas are at greater risk of food insecurity than their urban counterparts as, on average, food is up to 50 per cent more expensive in remote communities,» he stated.
Both Richmond natives & do - it - yourselfers by nature, we are continually in search of simple solutions for living more sustainably — sharing ideas, tips and tricks for DIY home decor, urban gardening and cooking.
Living and working in Richmond, Virginia, we're both do - it - yourselfers by nature and continually in search of simple solutions for living more sustainably — here on the blog we love sharing what we've been up to lately along with tips & tricks for DIY home decor, urban gardening and coLiving and working in Richmond, Virginia, we're both do - it - yourselfers by nature and continually in search of simple solutions for living more sustainably — here on the blog we love sharing what we've been up to lately along with tips & tricks for DIY home decor, urban gardening and coliving more sustainably — here on the blog we love sharing what we've been up to lately along with tips & tricks for DIY home decor, urban gardening and cooking.
While I don't miss that sleepless aspect, now living in a more urban neighborhood, I realize how much less in tune with the moon than I was then!
When the urban grind got to be too much, Natalie Pollard did what most of us only dream of doing: She swapped life in the big city of Philadelphia for a town of a more manageable size — Asheville, North Carolina.
Pollard's interest in living off the land and her desire to help others lead healthier, more sustainable lives coalesced when she opened Villagers, an urban homesteading supply store, in 2012.
Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.
So despite living in an urban environment, I'm actually generally less concerned about break - ins than I am about other hazards because, 1) we are busy and despite our best efforts to move through the world mindfully, there have been instances where we have accidentally left something on, 2) we live in a side - by - side condo and more humans means more potential for hazards.
Cuba has more than 11,200,000 people, with 75 per cent of them living in urban areas.
Green walls have been around for many years but with energy efficiency becoming so important these days and everyone wanting to do their part for the environment, we are seeing more of these living green walls being introduced into urban areas offering visual appeal and a host of environmental benefits.
Urban and lower class women were driven to hospitals to give birth because dirty and crowded living conditions made home births more difficult.
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We live in a town that we (mostly) love but are looking to move for better schools for our children or, if those areas with better schools don't pan out, for a more urban area with more support for homeschooling.
And 16 percent of mothers living in urban environments exclusively breastfeed for six or more months.
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One study of kids living in highly - stressed urban settings found that parents who identified themselves as practitioners of positive discipline were more likely to have children who were stress - resilient (Wyman et al 1991).
One of the more common situations of young parents nowadays, is the lack of space, especially for families living in urban areas.
More than half of the participants live in urban areas (67.4 %) and most were housewives (90.4 %) with a level of education (primary, 33.2 %)(secondary, 44.8 %).
It has been found that the living environment affects this type of behaviour: thus, children living in rural areas benefit from more exclusive breastfeeding (30.5 %) than children living in urban areas (24.4 %)[13][14].
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