Sentences with phrase «of viable communities»

Figment, a site started by two Conde Nast veterans that is trying to capitalize on the absence of viable communities for book readers online...

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As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

Today marks the official launch of HWTrek, a crowdfunding platform tailored specifically for hardware innovators that not only links them with a community of experts for consultations before crowdfunding but connects them with viable manufacturers afterward so the promised product can be successfully distributed.

So although you can't yet invite your community to invest, there are two viable forms of equity crowdfunding in action:

This is because as online communities become more and more insular and specialized, piggybacking off of mainstream content will become less viable.

«We considered the impact Starbucks can have in this community, and whether it is a viable site in terms of driving business for us and being profitable,» Hines said.

Through this latest investment, we hope to demonstrate to others the value and importance of seeking out better, more viable ways of achieving our business aims, all for the greater good of our communities.»

It means that stakeholder community banks would be consistent with the Viable Economy but only a part of it — a necessary if not sufficient condition for it.

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

If there is any sector that would be a viable candidate for a rotation from US bonds to stocks based solely on the character of current investment allocation, it's the foreign community.

Viable, wholesome community is what each of us needs in order to experience well - being, care and support.

But in a pluralist society of general education and at a time when the community Church of faith is bound to come, we should surely consider whether the spiritual tactics of the people's Church are still viable, and if the «shortage of priests» does not partly stem from this.

Stapledon thus brings together his basic concerns for a viable community and a metaphysic as his narrator questions the ultimate meaning of the only good he is able to perceive — the symbiotic love of two human beings.

The crucial ecology of institutions — community, public school, home and church — which once unconsciously supported the church school and made it viable has eroded.

But if Royce was incapable of rebuilding community on the basis of an abstraction as vague as loyalty, certainly Peirce was even less likely to have been able to construct a viable notion of community.

If Reno wants to dismiss the ethical dimension of this issue, he will have to convince me that what happens in a confined poultry house from start to finish — and its complete impact on land, chicken, farmer, eater, community — is ethically defensible, especially in the face of the viable and sensible alternatives offered by operations like my own.

But in a manner very similar to Robert Nisbet's argument in Community and Power (Oxford, pp. 60 - 61), Russell suggests that the emotive function of the family is not sufficient to sustain it as a viable institution.

EcoXpo's events encapsulate a philosophy of wellbeing, where our thinking and actions create ecologically viable communities, locally and globally.

Through the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the dairy community supports socially responsible, economically viable and environmentally sound dairy food systems that promote the current and future health and well - being of our consumers, communities, cows, employees, businesses and planet.

Farmer - Veteran Coalition The mission of the Farmer - Veteran Coalition (FVC) is to mobilize our food and farming community to create healthy and viable futures for America's veterans by enlisting their help in building our green economy, rebuilding our rural communities, and securing a safe and healthy food supply for all.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

In 2013, the American billionaire, and one of the world's richest people, Warren Buffett, said: «I believe that newspapers delivering comprehensive and reliable information to tightly - bound communities and having a sensible Internet strategy will remain viable for a long time.»

The successful entrepreneur gave the advise in an interview in Accra stated that if they the youth in the Muslim communities engage themselves into viable business ventures the current level of economic hardship will be a thing of the past.

Far from helping conservation and other Green Party aims, they would result in the immediate end to conservation work carried out as part of shooting and inflict mortal blows to rural communities which depend on shooting to remain viable.

Nana Ama Amafoa, the Queenmother, appealed to the First Lady to assist in the mobilisation of women in the communities so they could be resourced and make their livelihoods, which were mainly farming, gari and palm oil making, more viable.

«SUNY Board of Trustees have charged Downstate leadership with identifying ways to maintain a financially viable healthcare presence in Cobble Hill to continue to meet the needs of the community,» according to the letter.

The grant will assist Fish Creek Cabin Resort with working capital as they commence a $ 1.44 m civic, recreational and eco-tourism destination project that is transforming a once blighted landscape in the Town of Annsville from an income dormant rental housing community into a 7 - acre four - season economically viable recreation campus.

Rent stabilization certainly is not enough to create viable mixed income communities, especially with high concentrations of low income earners.

In retrospect, the Queens GOP historically held down parts of the northeast from the days of Frank Padavan — the blue and white collar mixed community of co-ops, one and two family homes, always had a viable GOP presence which gives some red candidates a fighting chance.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday promised that his administration would continue to make every part of the state economically viable and liveable by opening up and developing sub-urban communities.

«I think there are lots of viable candidates in the community and [Geoffrey Wells] is certainly one,» Mr. Russell said.

The developer, Community Preservation Corporation Resources, said it needs at least 70 percent of the units to draw market - rate rents in order for the project to be financially viable.

But even back in 2007 before Trump seemed like a viable candidate, so much of what I heard in these communities was how their communities were in decline and people felt nostalgic about how their communities used to be so vibrant, and people used to be able to have the kind of job their parents had and make a good life.

A study in the journal Addiction shows that a viable system for measuring the consumption of illegal drugs in various communities is to analyze samples of untreated wastewater — which contains the leftovers.

The search for economically viable alternatives to fossil fuels has attracted attention among energy communities because of increasing energy prices and climate change.

There must be a very strong public outreach program so that a community can come to understand why these strategies are necessary or why there may not be any viable alternatives, he said, adding that transparency about how the system works and assurances of its safety are also vital.

They lie on the edge of the largely tropical band in which coral communities are viable, and reef diversity here is relatively low, leaving the ecosystem vulnerable.

The majority of the medical community still overlooks Candidiasis as a viable factor in many ailments despite its increasing occurrence.

Since 2017, Blomkamp's Oats Studios has created short films distributed via YouTube and Steam, in order to «gauge the community for interest as to which of them are viable for expansion into feature films.»

Thanks to the far - sighted approach of both Winchcombe Town Council and Winchcombe School, both the community and the school have gained financially - viable, top class facilities that neither party on its own could have aspired to.

It is the most viable solution to promote a sustainable society by activating Social Common Capital in the culture based on holistic traditional thoughts and traditional community lifestyle, and weaves them again repairing once broken bonds as a direct result of living within an ongoing industrialization and materialism based society.

Karen Woolland of wctd, an expert on sports project funding says: «In order to make your project a reality it is advisable to move away from the thinking of a traditional project of synthetic pitch and changing rooms for one main user group, the key is to work in partnership and link with as many community partners as viable.

Open to students at all levels of academic achievement and located in historically disadvantaged communities, SSCs were intended to be viable alternatives to the neighborhood high schools that were closing.

Our community believes that the portfolio of Magnet programs provide a quality, viable choice for parents.

At the November 19th, 2013 City Hall Hearing on Rocketship Tamien, community members discussed John Danner's concept of «Minimum Viable Instruction ``, the foundation upon which he hopes to grab a chunk of the $ 4trillion education market with his for profit software company, Zeal.

If we, the citizens of Oakland, want the district to be financially viable, AND we want many good schools representing a variety of models to meet the needs of different families and communities, we need to ask a different set of questions.

Strong viable schools lead to the future success of every community.

According to Department budget documents, the proposal «would support LEAs in establishing or expanding student - centered systems that: (1) differentiate funding based on student characteristics, providing disadvantaged students more funding on a per - pupil basis than other students; (2) offer a range of viable school options and enable the Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice; (3) make school performance and funding data easily accessible to parents; and (4) empower school leaders to use funds flexibly to address student and community needs.

Further, the FHWA Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation will assist Federal, State and local governments to make walking and bicycling safe and viable transportation options for people of all ages and abilities in communities throughout the U.S..

Although he promises no bullet - pointed list of «what to do in a disaster,» Jackson did say that his research has made him think about «how and why communities are viable, how communities form.»