Sentences with phrase «of urban leaders»

And people want more interesting walkable destinations,» said Cortright, who is also a senior policy advisor for CEOs for Cities, a national organization of urban leaders.

Frustrated by the ongoing diplomatic stalemate, a number of urban leaders have decided to take matters into their own hands, adopting solutions that already exist or inventing new ones for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the effects of ongoing global warming.

In «In Their Own Words» (p. 14), three principals embrace the new mantra of the urban leader.

Not exact matches

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

The NUA itself emerged from a consultative process, whereby UN-Habitat collected the inputs of a diverse community of urban scholars, leaders, planners and activists.

Habitat III brought together thought leaders on the future of urban areas, fostering dialogue and collaboration.

The new wave of companies based in San Francisco is producing a generation of engineering leaders who have real ties to urban life.

She also wrote several profiles of Chicago business leaders, including comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni and Urban League of Chicago CEO Andrea Zopp.

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

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.

Their political strength and high approval ratings will make it difficult for the next PC leader and whoever becomes the premier after the next election to ignore the concerns of urban Albertans.

B.C. Green Party Leader Jane Sterk accused the NDP of trying to «have their cake and eat it too» by appealing to urban environmentalists while leaving the door open to a twinned Trans Mountain pipeline with a different backdoor outlet.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick as well as leaders of companies such as Ford, BMW, Google and ride - sharing rival Lyft have cited 2021 as a date when self - driving cars could constitute the bulk of vehicles in urban centers.

Smart Mobility Panel Featuring thought leaders in transportation and urban planning, Onramp's panel discussion will focus on the intersection of public, private and academic collaboration when it comes to the future of driving innovation.

«Tested, and ready today, to earn back the confidence of families, of millennials, and moms and dads, of urban and rural Canadians, and of small business leaders, and seniors, who want government to be an empowering force for good,» he said.

«Expanding the product with Adam and Geoff and bringing on leaders like Adam and Crystal signifies our commitment to our customers in progressing the efficiency of projects, buildings and ultimately doing our part in the industry to contribute to urban progress.»

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

Bill Marsh, the Team Leader of the Black Country Urban Industrial Mission (BCUIM) spoke to Premier about how the group helps employees in the manufacturing industry.

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

Typical factors of a psychological and sociological nature are of considerable consequence, for example, the typical make - up of the potential sectarian or of the sectarian leader, of the sectarian audience, of the urban parishioner, and of the ecclesiastical bureaucrat.

Bennett accepted a post as rector of a struggling urban parish in Seattle that quickly flourished, lifting up Bennett and his wife, Rita, as leaders in a burgeoning neo-Pentecostal movement.

Christine Caine, the speaker, author, and activist out of Australia's Hillsong Church, announced last week that she will begin a training program featuring inspirational videos, industry - specific articles, mentorship pipelines, and urban events to encourage Christian women leaders in the marketplace.

Arloa Sutter is the founder and visionary leader of Breakthrough Urban Ministries in Chicago.

While religious leaders have the attention of politicians and the media, they must advance a comprehensive agenda for urban change informed by the principle of subsidiarity.

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (CCI) is ready to cooperate for the enhancement of the work at the national level (communication: written and electronic media, formation of present and future leaders, dialog and «Tagung», research and development, evangelisation, human rights issues and advocacy, urban - industrial mission, etc.).

Urban Catholics express more puzzlement than overt hostility regarding what their church leaders call the invasion of the «sects.»

A contemporary of Gregory VII and Urban II, as a youth he was deeply stirred by the religious awakening of which they were symbols and leaders.

After years of urban sprawl and the creation of miles of big - box commercial areas along LaGrange Road and 159th Street, Orland Park leaders have turned their attention to vitalize its downtown.

Leaders of both the Urban School Food Alliance and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation are set to meet in Chicago next week.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Leader Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (all Democrats) reached an agreement behind closed doors to repeal much of what is left of the draconian drug laws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

«The incredible transformation taking place at the Sibley Building serves as further evidence of the many positive changes taking place throughout Rochester's urban core and represents a renewed sense of optimism that is driving our region's economy forward,» Assembly Majority Leader Joseph D. Morelle.

When black and Hispanic leaders bemoaned the lack of a promised «urban agenda,» Cuomo appointed a number of minorities to administrative posts and created a jobs fund for inner - city youth.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and her chief of staff returned from London today after a three - day conference swapping ideas with other urban leaders about the challenges facing 21st - century cities.

Launching the report in Accra on Tuesday, Programme Leader for Sustainable Development, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone for the World Bank Ivo Imparato says although there is a platform for cities and investors to meet the challenge of urban resilience, it would take a significant amount of support.

At the same time, the campaign is developing an «urban agenda» after concerns were raised by a group of black and Latino political leaders during a meeting this month in Mount Vernon, Westchester County.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

Public Advocate Letitia James; Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; District Leader Carlina Rivera, who is running for Mendez's seat; District Leader Anthony Feliciano; Jamila Hammami, director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project; the Urban Justice Center; and faith leaders from the Islamic Council of America and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, will also be participating in the rally.

New York needs a health thinker and leader who can do just that: assume many roles and assess problems from different angles, including upstate and downstate, urban and rural, with an ultimate focus on ensuring and improving the health of all New Yorkers.

«The mayor of New York City is one of the leaders of urban America,» he said.

«I'm trying — as one of the leaders of urban America — to change the discussion, to get our candidates on all levels to talk about income inequality and what they're willing to do about it,» said de Blasio on Tuesday.

The teams also include numerous minority leaders, including Hazel Dukes, the president of NAACP New York, Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, and Elinor Tatum, who heads the Amsterdam News.

The council leader dismissed criticism of the Council Tax rise saying this was «London / urban myopia.»

On Friday, Paladino took to a national stage presenting his opinions on education to a conference of urban school leaders in Miami.