Sentences with phrase «on rural»

To protect owl and salmon habitats, the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan reduced timber production on national forests in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California by more than 80 percent, resulting in mill closures and job losses that were particularly hard on rural areas with no other industry.

Nothing else looms on rural horizons like these glaring, spinning machines.

This technical document highlights the importance of water management, as growing populations, expanding cities and unsustainable natural resource management are increasing water stress on rural communities, while climate change and shocks are exacerbating flooding, landslides and saltwater intrusion into freshwater systems.

It provides concrete policy recommendations for what needs to be done to reduce the impact on rural livelihoods, health, food security, urban slums, and disaster vulnerability.

A panel on the rural development choices facing leaders of developing countries ``.

Land valuations, lending criteria, misrepresentation from business advisors, increasing cost of production, low commodity prices, over regulation, animal rights activists all these, and many more reasons are causing a tidal wave to crash down on the rural -LSB-...]

But Lincoln wrote * plenty * on rural economies, and he was a keen student of the Bible too, and so we can assert with considerable confidence that Abraham Lincoln and Wendell Berry are on the same page morally and politically and economically, and their shared values and long - term goals are very different from the self - centered values and short - term goals of Big Carbon.

Barriers to empowerment Working with existing community structures and reducing the barriers to entrepreneurship for women are key to empowerment, according to Rachita Misra, senior program manager at the SELCO foundation, an India - based non-profit focused on rural development.

I found the EPA study on Rural & Urban Trends in Proximity to Large Cities, but am skeptical of the «purity» of the data feeding it.

GISS Step 2 makes the urban adjustment based on rural stations within 500 km of the urban station.

Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.

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Given the strong dependence in rural areas on natural resources, the impacts of climate change on agriculture, forestry and fishing, and thus on rural livelihoods and incomes, are likely to be especially serious.

Wind projects, he added, «blight rural lives» and have, among other negative environmental effects, «significant impacts on the rural economy and the rural environment.»

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.

Farmers and others who depend on rural livelihoods for income are benefitting from rising agricultural productivity around the world, including in parts of Asia and Africa where the need for increased food supplies is most critical.

Interest in building the project was born after Randy attended a presentation on the value that locally - owned renewable energy projects can have on rural economies.

Ms. Linowes, who holds a B.S. in computer science and an MBA, has served as technical advisor for Laura Israel's Windfall, the award - winning documentary on the impact of large - scale wind development on rural communities.

The goal of this strategy is to maximize IFAD's impact on rural poverty in a changing climate.

In addition to the MTR project, I created a story map illustrating the development of Marcellus Shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Pennsylvania, and discussing the environmental and public health consequences fracking is having on some rural Pennsylvania communities.

In addition to «backcountry» applications (i.e. without road / vehicle access), the hut prototype has received considerable interest from private individuals who are looking to erect prefabricated structures on both rural and urban «front - country» sites (i.e. easily accessible by vehicle).

In a dramatic win for residents» groups who have raised widespread concerns about the impact of wind farms on rural communities, the committee recommended that noise measurements be expanded to include low - frequency noise, or infrasound.

The EPA may as well have declared war on rural America, given the inflexibility of its new rules that heavily restrict the use and purchae of wood stoves.

Researchers quickly began suggesting the drought that wreaked havoc on rural Syria served as a spark for civil war.

Dorenne Hansen, of Glenville, Minn., stands on a rural highway near a wind turbine in a field, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, near Northwood, Iowa.

If this bill passes, it could result in another Big Wind blitz on rural Maine.

My commute was only four miles each way, but half of the route was on a rural road with a 45mph speed limit and a narrow, bumpy bike lane with a steep ditch to one side.

James Hansen of NASA, who installed costly solar panels on his rural rooftop in Pennsylvania, does a good job:

We live on a rural road, so we get deliveries of propane for the stove, but don't have a gas line for that cleaner source of heat.

In the lead up to the 2011 «Sowing Seeds» artist workshop, organiser Vagaram Choudhary tells us what influence previous editions have had on the rural Indian villages visited.

Meantime, on the Continent, Romanticism quickly gave way to Realism, a style which reflected the new Industrial Revolution and its effects on rural communities.

Becker's most recent projects focus on rural America, questioning what is natural and the relationship between humans, technology, and the environment.

Walker's musical influences range from Brian Eno and La Monte Young to 80s and 90s alternative and indie rock bands Spacemen 3, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr and Pavement, which deeply affected him during his childhood in Shropshire, on the rural border of England and Wales.

But there's also Modern art at TEFAF — Alexej von Jawlensky's colorful 1913 canvasHead of a Woman, painted in a colorful expressionistic style, was on offer for $ 3.4 million at Galerie Thomas, from Munich; Surrealist Paul Delvaux's erotic rendition of female nudes in a dreamlike setting is at Salzburg's Thomas Salis Art & Design; Piet Mondrian's landscape painting of a house surrounded by trees from 1902, before the Dutch modernist discovered his signature style of geometric abstraction, is at Düsseldorf «s Beck & Eggeling; and Impressionist painter Pierre - Auguste Renoir's enchanting 1885 canvas Au Bord de L'eau (At the Water's Edge), which beautifully captures a woman rowing a boat on a rural lake, is priced at $ 12 million at Dickinson, of London and New York.

June 3 — July 2 Opening Reception: Friday, June 3 from 5 — 7:30 With an Artist Talk at 6:15 Focusing on the rural environment of Wisconsin, Craig Blietz paints the iconic farm animal and is best known for his depiction of cows.

June 3 — July 2 Opening Reception: Friday, June 3 from 5 — 7:30 with an Artist Talk at 6:15 Focusing on the rural environment of Wisconsin, Craig Blietz paints the iconic farm animal and is best known for his depiction of cows.

The Land We Live In — The Land We Left Behind Meditations on the rural world by a dazzling array of artists.

Hai Bo's «The Northern No. 7» and Wang Ningde's «Some Days No. 9» offer stark counterpoints to each other; in the former, a man bicycles toward the viewer on a rural road, surrounded by emptiness, while in the latter, a man and his young son stand in grayness, their backs to the camera, as trains pass by on either side.

Following his first exhibition at the workshop, Homeland, a meditation on rural South Africa, Sekgala's work has been presented in such exhibitions as My Joburg at la maison rouge in Paris; Transition at Les Rencontres d'Arles in France; and The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, organized by Okwui Enwezor and shown at the International Center of Photography in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, and Museum Africa in Johannesburg.

«I live on a rural property, and I'll often find pretty interesting rusted pieces on the ground,» says Tobias.

Panero continues: «Concentrating on the rural hills, fields, streams, and vegetation of upstate New York, [Tom] Goldenberg employs a wide range of perspective, materials, and techniques — charcoal, walnut ink, pastels — that clearly draws on those classical collections.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and resident in São Paulo since the 1990s, her works have been shaped by the influences of the urban metropolises on the rural environment.

St Cuthbert's isolation on the rural Farne Isles and devotion to hermetic life draws a contemporary parallel to the artist's own struggles within the seclusion of his studio.

Travis Brown's photographs of West Tennessee — portraits, still - lifes, a vine - strangled landscape — owe a debt to Alec Soth's similarly scattered and soulful takes on rural America.

She focuses on rural agricultural communities that are developing tourism, urban enclaves, and indigenous communities.

Life on a rural farm with parents in the garment manufacturing business shaped Grossman's artistic vision and influenced her choice of materials.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

Driving on the rural highways between Baltimore and Westminster, we couldn't help but feel like we were on our own little Clyfford Still pilgrimage.

Bill Traylor, who began his life enslaved on a rural plantation, never received artistic training, but his evocative portrayals of life in Montgomery, Alabama has captured the imaginations of many.

Scottish painter Andrew McIntosh (aka Mackie) takes ubiquitous structures often abandoned on rural homesteads like travel campers or sheds and reveals hidden worlds within: radiant sunsets and expansive skies that appear like portals into another place.