Sentences with phrase «most public environments»

Engaging and surreal, walking into what feels like such a private space in one of the most public environments in the art world, this stand has more detail than most artworks — worth a visit of its own, it would be worth the gallery creating this installation around the world.

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Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

One of the few issues on which most economists agree is the need for public policy to protect the environment.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Most people probably didn't know that Tony was a federal public service worker — a scientist at Environment Canada, nearing retirement — but they sure do now.

Such a practice reduces the government's motivation to apply its best technology and most vigilant management to the safekeeping of waste; it assumes that the right to increase the risks to public health and the environment can be purchased.

During the years of the Pataki Administration, the state raised its tobacco tax, enacted one of the nation's most sweeping restrictions on smoking in public places and in work environments.

In a pre-reform environment, he found ways to draw attention to these most important issues — through public forums with expert testimony and lobby days with passionate advocates — when the traditional institutional means were blocked.

«More than just an advocate for public safety, education and the environment, along with many other policy issues, Peter and his family have been defenders of diversity and tolerance, which has fostered Queens becoming one of the most inclusive places on earth.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

, who stands to be the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is one of Congress» most outspoken climate skeptics.

In the conclusion of their article, they wrote, «Ultimately, preventing the introduction of litter into the marine environment through increased public awareness remains the most efficient and cost - effective solution to this dilemma.»

«The physicians come from a very wealthy environment, most working in public hospitals as clinicians who are one - on - one with a patient.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

«Most of what we do that resonates with the public is to get weird, unexpected microbes out of the environment,» said the assistant professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

Based on the environment and public health situation in Cebu City at the time, these cases of diarrhea were most likely brought about by infection, Eisenberg said.

She most recently testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

-- is a non-profit organization that draws from the most current research to identify harmful chemicals in our environment and several resources to help protect the public from unnecessary toxic exposure.

Science in the public interest, of several dating sites and apps, That's not exactly the most optimal dating environment.

Aided by the palettes of cinematographer Dick Pope, Leigh crafts an environment that conveys the ebb and flow of Turner's life, from his most successful period in the 1830s through the decline of public interest in the years leading up to his death in 1851.

While most public Cloud services give you several pre-configured packages and tiers (and often the option to switch to any of them at any time), with a private Cloud solution you call the shots, and you create the perfect environment for your needs in an «a la carte» manner.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

Prue has also been involved in the development of public policy documents, most significantly the Best Practice Guidelines in Early Childhood Physical Environments.

Among these conditions are 1) education's privileged legal status in most state constitutions; 2) schooling's uniquely decentralized operation and diffuse revenue - generation structure; 3) local political dynamics and institutions that foster a favorable fiscal environment for public schools; 4) a multitiered structure for funding schools with complicated intergovernmental funding incentives and reliance on inelastic tax sources, such as property taxes at the local level.

It is not only the regulatory environment that founders must directly challenge, but the entire sweep of policies, practices, and pedagogies, from federal law to local union contracts, from teacher preparation programs to the design of mainstream textbooks, that together define how most public schools today function.

Jaded or not, the results from last night's Mayoral primaries will have a profound effect on one of the nation's most robust public charter school environments.

By bringing people together and creating an informal and balanced environment for discussion, Grantmakers for Education offers important opportunities for meaningful dialogue, collaboration and action on the most critical challenges in public education today and into the future.

«One of the most remarkable environments I have ever visited is Piedmont IB Middle School,» said Sneha Shah - Coltrane, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's top official for education of gifted students.

Most recently, Sam served as Chief of Staff to the President of Milwaukee's Common Council and as Dean of Students with Milwaukee Public Schools where he oversaw school safety and worked to build a school environment that supported student academic success.

Most district administrators have the mentality that charters are taking students, money and facilities from the districts and therefore fight charters rather than appreciate that they serve students that need a different environment from what is offered in traditional public schools.

They happen three times a year in most D.C. public schools and are as commonplace to a school environment as sending out progress reports to parents or having teacher planning days.

On a national scale, being a teacher in North Carolina is arguably among the most challenging environments in public education.

Click HERE to view a video of the transformation that took an abandoned property — one that was a huge drain on the environment and on town morale — and built in its place what might be the most amazing public library in America.

Most will go to another working environment, either on a farm or to police, search and rescue or another public service.»

Current Renovations: Description: Smoke - Free Environment - All public areas and most guest rooms are smoke - free.

Our public programs take you into some of BC's most beautiful and serene settings to fully embrace and understand the local environment.

And you can learn about scuba diving in theory in the environment where you feel the most comfortable with, whether at home with a cup of coffee, at your public library without any sound or even in your favorite coffee shop with a hot chocolate for motivation.

I never thought of going into the advertising business, i never had the previledge of going to a formal school to learn this stuff, i learned by listening and being aware of my environment, more of a gut feel, and that is how i base my design and approach potential client, i am from the Philippines and frankly the field here is still played the traditional way, it works though direct approach more to the heart of the buying public, you should see the ads for Mcdonalds, i'm still dreaming but i wish i could follow the footsteps of David Ogilvy, for me he is one of the most brilliant person in this field, i wish i could also get to meet and talk to people like you who has a different view on this, need to know more, if not i'll just go back to repairing busted TV's and stereo ’s

On the other hand, it represents the public in its most important events: politics, economics, technology, social environment and social theory, ethics, and economics of art.

Born in New York in 1951, Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists, producing video installations, sound environments, and performances that offer the public profound experiences of immersion in space, image and sound.

For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000 - sq - foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin's natural and urban environment.

Stumbling its way through political deals and compromises among politicians guided by local interests and large entrenched industries, in an environment where most detractors erroneously proclaim profound economic gloom and doom in an effort to frighten the public into submission, the legislation somehow made it past the House.

«We commend the bipartisan group of leaders including Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (CA), and Senators Joseph Lieberman (CT) and John Warner (VA) among others, and we stand behind them in their efforts to initiate and drive this critical piece of legislation that addresses one of the most important issues facing our nation today.»

Often we find climate change is a common cause but it is how this manifests itself which is key: changes in climate play out through natural resources — the underlying environment that particularly people in poverty most directly depend on» said David Nussbaum, CEO of WWF - UK to representatives of the public, private and NGO sector at the launch of the report in London on 10 September 2014.

Nor would you know that, if you compare the damage various energy technologies do to the environment, wildlife, public health and the climate, wind is one of the most benign.

By taking people virtually via the web into the environment of melting ice and changing landscape, Cape Farewell was the platform by which the most current information was available to the public, empowering them with the necessary tools to be active in the climate change debate.

For the most part, the EPA has been able to avoid partisan politics and focus on its core mission of protecting public health and the environment, says EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, speaking mid-November at a National Press Club luncheon.