Sentences with phrase «of urban challenges»

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They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

They recently received a $ 10,000 grant to help grow their business from the New Economy Initiative's small business challenge, and his farm was among one of five Detroit based urban farms to be awarded.

Erin True, co-owner of Urban Wood Goods in Gurnee, Ill., says she needed to see certain shipping challenges for herself.

One of the most pressing immigration challenges is the fact that 76 % of all newcomers have chosen to settle in the three major urban centres: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

HOW TO BUILD A SMARTER CITY IoT Track hosted by Flex We assemble experts from energy, transportation, government, finance, and other sectors to discuss the challenges and successes of connecting our urban areas.

Many of the challenges that urban regions face spill over the boundaries of municipal governments — none more so than in the current Ontario debate over public transit.

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.

Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban vertical farming looks like to him.

One of the world's largest urban innovation hubs, MaRS supports a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

With NDP support concentrated in urban areas of the province, the PCs also face a major challenge from Brian Jean «s Wildrose Party in rural Alberta.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

For some Wesleyans today the greatest challenge confronting the church is to respond to the diversity of cultures and ethnicities that now characterize urban American society.

A critical challenge of liberation theology is its rooting in local praxis and base communities, and here the main British version has been a multifaceted urban theology which has built on a tradition of pastoral, political and community - building activity in cities.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

And we see the COACH taking on the challenge of rebuidling an urban Philly team, and he's confident, of course, that is talent and virtue will succeed in their transformative ways once again.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

The mission challenge of our day is an urban challenge.

The emergence in recent years of a new media environment which overarches the urban - technological one takes that hermeneutical challenge a step further.

In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern life.

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.

The challenges of a number of urban churches in Chicago are outlined featuring diverse intellectual energy required in a changing city.

The church should respond by affirming the worth of urban people through challenging their hearts and minds with effective educational opportunities.

In December 2007, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board dismissed with prejudice, the Petition for Cancellation of Smokey Chipotle where Kraft Foods conspired with Urban Accents, Inc. (listed below) in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 1995.

«[Agriculture] needs to become part of our culture again, we need to educate urban Australians on the challenges we have and we need to have government develop the right policy, preferably non-partisan and with length of tenure, to meet the roles required.»

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

There is a growing concern that the fast expanding and globalized competitive world market is causing decline in grower returns and expansion of urban development and environmental regulations causing production cost increases and challenging the viability and sustainability of producing these crops.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

Being a mom - to - be in the city is certainly not without its challenges — not the least of which is finding a place to put all that cool urban baby gear that is slowly accumulating in my NY - sized apartment.

Committee members will also include: Brian Brady of Mikva Challenge, Dr. Byron Brazier of the Apostolic Church of God, Celine Coggins of Teach Plus, Sarah Cobb of Neighborhood Parents Network, Guillermo Gomez of The Healthy Schools Campaign, Timothy Knowles of the Urban Education Institute, Karen Lewis from the Chicago Teachers Union, Phyllis Locket of New Schools for Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's Church, Juan Soto of Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, Alderman Latasha Thomas, Robin Steans of Advance Illinois, Senator Kimberly Lightford.

To address the specific challenges of urban and inner - city families, where fatherlessness and the negative consequences that come with it are often at their worst, NCF continued expanding.

I don't have kids, but one of my best friends teaches developmentally challenged, urban preschool kids, and I go read to his kids once in a while.

Committee members will also include: Brian Brady of Mikva Challenge, Dr. Byron Brazier of the Apostolic Church of God, Celine Coggins of Teach Plus, Sarah Cobb of Neighborhood Parents Network, Guillermo Gomez of The Healthy Schools Campaign, Timothy Knowles of the Urban Education Institute, Phyllis Locket of New Schools for Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's Church, Juan Soto of Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, Alderman Latasha Thomas, Robin Steans of Advance Illinois, Senator Kimberly Lightford.

I don't love it for everyday use because of it's a challenge in urban environments.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

On the Democratic side, a number of candidates have already entered the race to challenge the Republican councilman, including Paul Graziano, an activist and urban planning consultant; Austin Shafran, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration; Paul Vallone, an attorney, who ran for the seat back in 2009; and former state Assemblyman John Duane.

«The urban deer population ignores municipal boundaries, ranging through Syracuse to the Town of Dewitt and surround areas, and no single municipality has the means or the mandate to effectively address this challenge,» the mayor said.

He grew up in Mount Vernon, a city that faces many of the economic and governmental struggles that challenge urban areas throughout the state, and has since moved to Rye, one of the wealthiest cities in the country.

State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens and Arva Rice, the president of the New York Urban League, sit down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about economic challenges facing African - Americans in New York.

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.

For her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.»

With this focus on electrified urban centres, allied to escalating costs of operating conventionally - fuelled cars are oil prices increase, rural areas may require some further action to resolve mounting personal transport challenges.

Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.

Bronxites were challenged to create a sign that visibly represents The Bronx, urban gardening or other unique aspects of the borough; the top three finalists were awarded cash prizes, including a $ 500 1st place prize.

At 11 a.m. Monday, Mayor de Blasio will deliver opening remarks to the 2017 Urban Resilience Summit, a conference convening leaders of the Rockefeller Foundation «to spur new solutions and collaborate on best practices to tackle 21st century urban challenges.&rUrban Resilience Summit, a conference convening leaders of the Rockefeller Foundation «to spur new solutions and collaborate on best practices to tackle 21st century urban challenges.&rurban challenges.»