Sentences with phrase «own local environment»

The director of Esperanza Community Housing, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, and her neighbors, many of whom are Latino, say that their local environment is too often treated as if it were disposable.

There are tax credits that businesses can take when they make efforts to improve the local environment starting within the confines of its own walls.

Corruption, damage to the local environment, and cultural and political insensitiveness are all the potential risks that would undermine China's efforts to push out the grand vision that pledges to be implemented based on mutual respects and mutual cooperation.

As the World Commission on Environment and Development noted in its report Our Common Future, decentralization of industry reduces levels of pollution and other negative impacts on the local environment.

If your dog had to fend from itself and feed off of the local environment, it wouldn't be so gentle about it.

There may even be some gains in becoming once again more sensitive to the seasons and the weather and the specific nature of our local environment.

Furthermore, there is no assurance that people will take care of their local environment.

[3] By the word «fittest» Darwin meant «better adapted for immediate, local environment», not the common modern meaning of «in the best physical shape».

Most importantly, the extraction process leaves the local environment intact since the trees are never cut down destroying the farmers» forested properties.

Steklarna Hrastnik states that its operations and the principle of sustainability, the company's social responsibility, respect for its employees and involvement in the local environment reflect the values that clients and buyers appreciate and expect.

The Maui liquor stores are just one example of how Tamura's modifies its locations to best fit the local environment.

In order to help farmers earn certification, Cassia Co-op implemented a robust internal management and organization system that brings benefits to both farmers and the local environment.

Currently, the plant breeders are introgressing the Bt gene into farmer - preferred lines and are evaluating their acceptability and suitability for local environments.

The yield varies enormously according to the varieties grown and how well the particular plants adapt to the local environment; we have grown stunted plants with as few as ten pods and large, bushy plants with fifty or more.

I'm confident the jumperoo will provide a safe local environment were my son can rotate and grab items because my son will have a limited distance to reach.

Our programs enrich natural history and science lessons and help build connections to the local environment.

That common bond we share is one that will help our children have compassion for all the animals and plants in their local environment.

Do you feel it is possible to emphasis taste better in American school menus and in other local environments, still while keeping the choice option that is common in the American culture?

Jeanette says: «This great initiative has involved volunteer challenges for our employees, including helping at holiday clubs to encourage families to look after their local environment and wildlife, as well as clearing scrub on local heathland.

It is also not obvious how large the world is compared to our own local environment.

Creating and sustaining an environmentally - friendly school environment is essential to the health and wellness of students and staff, as well as the health of the local environment and community.

Local practices and regulatory schemes may well be creative and better suited to local environments than the imported blueprints; however, they do not live up to the liberal normative standards taught at departments of journalism and politics.

This proposal to greatly expand the number of permanent, locally based drop - off locations would be a very positive, cost - effective addition to the state's ongoing, overall strategy to protect our communities and local environments.»

In it, he calls for everything from taxing fatty snacks like cigarettes and breaking the long hours culture, to the need for beefed up local democracy, so we can collectively design healthier local environments.

Thank you to all the Longmeadow and Bragbury End Community Garden volunteers and local Councillors making a difference to our local environment pic.twitter.com / e2vgjKLjoP

Both involved actively engaging younger secondary school pupils in topical issues and helping them see how they could influence both their local environment and a wider political issue.

Rob is committed to the NHS, better schools and a cleaner local environment.

State health and environmental regulators have known for decades that at least 62 properties — most in Niagara County — contain varying degrees of radioactivity that tested at levels two to more than 10 times normal for the local environment.

Carol Barbone, the group's campaign director, said: «If Stansted were permitted to expand to maximum use of the existing runway, the local environment would suffer, the national economy would suffer and we would have taken a giant step backwards in the battle to combat climate change.»

And as the industry develops we will remain vigilant to all emerging evidence to ensure fracking is safe and the local environment is protected.

Supporters of the bill say nitrogen pollution in Long Island's water threatens the local environment.

We need to ensure that protecting the local environment is properly considered alongside the broader issues of protecting the global environment.

The Clean Water Act also requires such plants to use the best available technology in order to best protect local environments, something Mr. Schneiderman says Millstone is not doing.

During college and his first years of graduate school at the University of Hawaii, Winter soaked up indigenous Hawaiian culture while also seeking scientific tools for understanding the local environment.

Having a roof that can absorb rainwater does a tremendous amount of good for the local environment and cuts costs related to water purification and treatment.

The climate impacts alone are confounding, given the diversity of species, landscapes and local environments in the United States.

The current view proposes that stem cell differentiation is controlled by their local environment, the so - called niche.

The impact on the local environment would be considerable, with pollution and untreated sewage trapped inside Venice's lagoon.

The findings give archaeologists clues as to how early agricultural societies dealt with climate fluctuations and differing local environments.

Why do these closely related and apparently ecologically similar birds respond differently to the changes in their shared local environment?

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

«Not all of them come from the local environment in Egypt,» Walton said.

One species, Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, is easily cultivated in the lab — with or without magnetic nanoparticles in their interior depending on the presence or absence of iron in the local environment.

If leaks from pipelines are not detected early enough, the resulting leaked oil could contaminate the local environment and water sources.

The first was isotopes (or forms) of carbon and nitrogen in bone protein, which reflect the diet and local environment in which the fish lived.

Significantly, these materials are made at the ambient temperature in the local environment — not at the high temperatures at which human - made structural materials are generally processed.

Rarely will a local environment perfectly integrate the feral organism into its established ecology.

Imaging spectroscopy provides information about the local environment of the atoms, similar to the incredible resolution offered by scanning tunneling microscopy.

Changes to skin pigmentation pathways probably reflect selective pressures related to sunlight exposure that humans experienced as they spread out from humanity's origins in Africa to other parts of the world and adapted to local environments.

The galaxies were then divided into those that are central to their local environment (the center of gravity) and those that roam around in their host environments (satellites).