Sentences with phrase «near poverty not»

• «The Florida Project»: Sean Baker's film, which he also wrote and edited, centers on a trio of children, about 6 or 7 years old, who live with their parents in near poverty not far from Disney World.

Not exact matches

Pro tip: Don't let peer pressure dictate that you take a vow of near - term poverty.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

But he struggles with his vision for the sake of his wife Charity (Michelle Williams) and their two daughters, first in near - poverty and later in success as he attempts to stick it to high - society naysayers who don't appreciate his «primitive circus of humbug.»

In the Austen novel, the central character is Anne Elliot, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a widower who has spent his family into near poverty; Anne is a spinster who years earlier had been persuaded by her snobbish family to abandon her true love because he was not up to their elevated social standards.

A student who is using a voucher and is attending fifth grade, has family income near the poverty line, a particular race or ethnicity, and has low math and reading test scores, for example, would be matched to one or more students who are also attending fifth grade, have incomes near the poverty line, are of that race or ethnicity, and have low reading and math scores, but do not use vouchers.

Even so, he's not blind to its problems, portraying the bad smells in the air near factories with no EPA regulations, the racial strife and the poverty.

Many, if not most, people in the world would trade their lifestyle for mine, because the numbers say that many people in the world are either in poverty or near poverty, and don't have choices.

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If it's between slowing (not halting, mind you) the alleviation of the worst poverty in the world by only allowing / helping those regions to industrialize mostly if not exclusively through non-emitting energy sources like wind / solar / hydro / geothermal / yet - to - be - perfected fourth generation nuclear / current riskier nuclear, on the one hand, and on the other hand destroying the stability of the climate to the point where mass extinction is a near certainty and the very survival of humanity is in question, obviously it is a no - brainer - we should choose not to destroy the planet.

Canada Man found dead inside burning car near northwest Toronto casino, Canadian Press Morneau didn't seek clearance from ethics commissioner before introducing pension bill, Globe and Mail Liberal government urged to be more aggressive in tackling poverty, Globe and Mail

A Senate Committee had just released an interim report on rural poverty and, in my capacity as a rural Realtor, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the real thing, because the column featured commentary from such luminaries on - all - things - rural as Senator Hugh Segal, and National Anti-Poverty Organization President Debbie Frost; so I just knew that the final result was guaranteed to be seriously entertaining, something along the lines of «Debbie and Hugh do Dundas County», coming soon to a township near you!