Sentences with phrase «plant area focuses»

The retail flower and plant area focuses on locally grown material in season and also incorporates flowers bought directly from growers in California, Florida, Canada, South America and Europe, especially Holland.

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GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.
Given their focus on plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products, much of GFI's work does not have a direct bearing on much of the animal advocacy movement, although they are contributing to a neglected and potentially high - impact area.
Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.
As Surlean Foods focuses on expanding their cooking operations, the plant will have an added culinary R&D center with a customer presentation area as well as enhanced Quality Assurance capabilities.
Hr Hutton said: «Planning applications for new plants are likely to focus on areas in the vicinity of existing sites so it's welcome that the NDA is making its significant land and assets available to the market.»
«What we show is that maybe there should be more of a focus on having native species to your area preferentially planted in your gardens.»
Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60 projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).
Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.
The 4 - year - old institute consists of six core research areas focused on a wide range of technologies, from cancer vaccines to robotic bees that will pollinate plants.
Specialization in at least three of seven possible focus areas (biochemistry and cell biology, genetics, medical biology, microbiology, ecology, plant sciences, zoology / animal sciences), with the option to develop a focus area into a primary focus.
Research at CSHL now focuses around five main areas: cancer, neuroscience, genomics, plant biology and quantitative biology.
This past year — 2016 — we took steps in a number of crucial areas to increase access to care through the expansion of our physical plant in Belmont, Massachusetts, as well as to focus efforts on emerging uses of technology to improve delivery of care.
This Focus Issue on Biotic Stress will showcase Update reviews on recent advances in the field and primary research articles covering all research areas on plant host interactions with pathogens and pests.
Biofuels and bioproducts are a growing research focus for WSU, and the work of the Lewis laboratory is an example of the role of basic plant biochemistry research in advancing our progress into this and related areas
His research is focused in two principal areas: The bio-production of commodity chemicals from plant biomass and the bio-production of high value pharmaceuticals.
Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.
Herb focuses on the practical and the specific, including ideas for seating, signage, planting considerations, teaching / meeting areas, outdoor classroom management, pathways, equipment storage, raised gardens, and more.
The Green Belt Movement (GBM) through support from ABC Home and Planet Foundation has planted over 500,000 trees in Kenya's Coastal region with focus on these four areas: Msambweni, Matuga Voi, Wundanyi and Mwatate constituencies.
Skyline's 16 manufactured housing plants each have a regional focus, so not all models or decors are available in each area of the country.
Waterborne offers events and building options that focus more on the coastal areas of the island, as well as providing off - shore alternatives for energy with tidal power plants, military submarines for defense, even floating luxury apartments for housing.
offers events and building options that focus more on the coastal areas of the island, as well as providing off - shore alternatives for energy with tidal power plants, military submarines for defense, even floating luxury apartments for housing.
Primarily focused on seasonal highlights, this tour provides an overview of our extensive collection of rare and unusual plants, carefully cultivated into 13 designed garden areas, along with a general history of the property.
Researching its history, former Wave Hill gardener Carolyn Hestand Kennedy — also a former Nally intern — discovered that back in the 1970's Wave Hill founding Director of Horticulture Marco Polo Stufano and John Nally, former Curator of the Gardens, wanting to create a shade garden on the north side of the property, began by planting a few oaks there, leaving them to grow for decades as they focused on more central areas of the garden.
Focusing her attention on specific aspects of the weather, the beach shore, architectural details and plants that grow in these areas - Gallace's oil paintings are realized with wet - on - wet brushwork into formal compositions and completed on small wooden panels.
The collective hopes to slow the advance of luxury real estate in the area by buying a vacant lot and building a community health center focused on medicinal plants and herbs.
Note: We chose not to focus on the extent to which existing sewerage treatment plants in the Atlanta area are meeting effluent discharge limits.
Her work focuses on the impacts of climate variations on animal and plant life, and change on global agriculture and urban areas.
It takes place annually at the Messe München exhibition center in Munich, Germany and focuses on the areas of photovoltaics, solar thermal technologies, solar power plants, as well as grid infrastructure and solutions for the integration of renewable energy.
The event's exhibition and conference both focus on the areas of photovoltaics, PV production technologies, solar plants, electrical energy storage, electric mobility and solar thermal technologies.
One area where companies are increasingly focused is the development of liquid fuels from plants.
The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.
KR: The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.
The collection of writings is diverse in geographic focus and issue - areas: including climate change, «megadams», nuclear testing, tree planting, toxic contamination, fossil fuel extraction, and the environmental consequences of armed conflict.
In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.
Despite becoming the focus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency form 1970 to 1976 for its unusually high incidence of childhood cancers caused by toxic leaks at a former area chemical plant, Toms River not only has the most stringent drinking water testing in the nation, it is consistently ranked as one of the safest U.S. cities over the last three years.
His primary focus of practice since the mid-1990s has been the representation of several industrial contractors who operate in the areas of construction, maintenance, heavy equipment, and related services associated with refineries, petrochemical plants and the production of oil.
«Here [in Rockford], I focus on a small area where there are several manufacturing plants and company headquarters,» she says.
The yard didn't have any structure at all to begin with, so last year we focused on adding shape, interest and function by creating a pea gravel patio for our fire pit, a flagstone walkway, and designated some planting areas.
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