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Tree planting projects helped change our thinking about how we can protect our environment through business and industry, and these programs are still very effective in developing countries like Ghana.

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Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

China Planning More Infrastructure Projects for Growth, NDRC Official Says China needs more subways, highways and sewage plants, and construction of that infrastructure will help the economy, a senior planning official said.

Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

A weekly afterschool program that brings together students of varied ages and older adults to work outside helping to control the spread of invasive plants, providing trail work and being part of the Weeks Pond rejuvenation project.

Club members have helped the Park District with other projects, such as regular clean - ups at Knoch Knolls Park, and planting seed harvested from the school's prairie site.

Also charged in the 10 - count case are Peter Galbraith Kelly, a former energy company executive who hired Percoco's wife at a time when it was seeking assistance from Albany with a downstate power plant, and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, founders of Syracuse - based Cor Development that prosecutors say paid Percoco to help with projects in central New York.

Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.

The $ 620,000 award constitutes a 25 percent match that will help leverage other funds toward the purchase and installation of equipment to upgrade the treatment plant as part of the $ 2,480,000 wastewater project.

Money from the grant will help fund a project at a wastewater treatment plant in Onondaga County.

The former mayor commended the work of Midler, the Broadway icon who helped start the New York Restoration project — a public - private partnership between the city and major donors, like Bloomberg and David Rockefeller, who pushed the tree planting effort.

By planting a tree in their constituency, MPs, led by Speaker John Bercow and including Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Philip Hammond, John McDonnell, and Diane Abbott will help to demonstrate that the Commonwealth and projects such as the QCC are a force for good.

In addition to Percoco, 48, of South Salem, the government has charged energy executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, 54, of Connecticut, with paying Percoco's wife $ 270,000 for a low - show job to help with a power plant, and Syracuse businessmen Steve Aiello, 59, and Joe Gerardi, 58, with paying him $ 35,000 for help on a state - funded project.

They say two Orange County resolutions, if passed, could help stop the plant and the associated Valley Lateral pipeline expansion project.

The roots of this story were planted in the 1930s, when the TVA was created as a New Deal project to help haul America out of the Great Depression.

Another objective of the project is to find new proteins that can help in turning plants into fuel.

Principal Chi Kim was really grateful to see the AARP members helping the kids plant in the garden because they are an integral piece of the sustainability of this project.

The smaller one was for a couple succulent plants and I was going to give it to my son's girlfriend for helping me with the photos on this project.

With each tank purchased, Parks Project donates back to national parks to help with cleanups, trail restorations, and plant removal.

With this new collaboration Christian Mingle's first project will be to help plant gardens in underprivileged communities located in south Dallas.

SOLV's Green Team program brings experts into classrooms and puts tools into student hands, helping students and teachers restore local streams by collecting garbage, eradicating nonnative plant species, and planting thousands of trees, among other projects.

Through clubs and classes, they raise money for families in need, work on a «coats for kids» project, plant trees, build park benches, help with efforts of the Northwest Blood Center, Children's Miracle Network, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Red Cross, and many others.

Through narrative and video, students take viewers on a detailed survey of the garden project — determining its purpose of beautifying the campus and preserving native species, consulting local plant experts, seeking plant donations from the local government, enlisting digging help from a parent.

Plant a tree in your neighborhood, download teaching materials, or help fund our projects in Kenya.

Grounds and Building Maintenance Helping with on - site building maintenance and grounds keeping projects (planting, weeding, cleanup, painting, construction and repairs as needed).

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I am extremely happy that you mentioned our eco-friendly approach as we are all dedicated to this project and thanks to our guests we can help plant trees around Budapest.

Hike into Haleakala and help remove invasive plants or work on other projects to protect the area's unique eco-system.

Learn more about the project, and some of the plants — grown by the Marin Headlands Nursery — that will help restore wildlife habitat.

Presidio Native Plant Nursery Time: 1 - 4 pm Location: Presidio Nursery, San Francisco Projects: Help us at the Presidio Nursery where we grow nearly 60,000 plants each year for habitat restoration pProjects: Help us at the Presidio Nursery where we grow nearly 60,000 plants each year for habitat restoration projectsprojects.

People who want to know about the lifestyle of the locals, their customs, history of the area and its culture, want to visit the town school, he National Park facilities, churches, stores, the recycling plant and the community center that houses the Symphonic Band project, they can go to Tortuguero Town visit tour with the help of a guide.

Still, a pilot project burning Montana coal in IGCC plants and sequestering the CO2 in Montana geological formations would be a very informative and important step, even if only because it would help create more market for IGCC plants and help develop the technology.

At a time when melting polar sea ice is causing so many to focus on which political power will place its flag over the Arctic, controlling the Northwest Passage shipping lanes and the petroleum resources beneath the sea ice, Miami artist Xavier Cortada has developed a project that engages people across the world below to plant a green flag and native tree to help address global climate change.

Miami artist Xavier Cortada created Native Flags as an urban reforestation project to help restore native habitats for plants and animals across South Florida.

The project, founded two years ago by young local designer Melissa Jimenez, production technician Karla Aguilar and manager Juan Jose Bolaños, also helps communities, artists and artisans develop their crafts, supports responsible manufacturers, and develops some products like a bamboo textiles line and a collection of preserved native plants for decoration.

Trees for the Earth is focused tree planting, agroforestry, and supporting reforestation projects in developing countries in order to help them meet their international land restoration and climate commitments.

Perhaps if the carbon pollution standards weren't tied up in the courts, they would have pushed the Mountaineer project through and helped kill off a few more outdated coal plants.

As an active partner in the «Smart Biogas Network» project, BayWa r.e. helps maintain plant operation to ensure a reliable source of energy to local communities.

concentrated on reducing its environmental impact through its own operations, including «virtually paperless» internal and customer transactions, and through engaging with local communities to support urban reforestation projects, helping to plant more than 100,000 trees around the country.

Reid said she expected virtual power plants will ramp up dramatically as pilot projects help to sort out the different technologies and systems, and states continue removing regulatory hurdles.

An agroforestry resource center helping rural people in developing countries improve their livelihoods through environmentally sustainable land management projects including tree planting

«This order is an important step forward that will result in new projects in the ground, but much work remains to ensure that community solar can achieve its full potential to make affordable local clean energy available to customers all over the state, to help realize Governor Cuomo's clean energy goals, and to help replace power from the Indian Point nuclear plant.

With the construction of sanitary and water treatment plants, our climate protection projects contribute to keeping water resources pure and thus also help to protect the maritime environment.

Located at Pratt's Staten Island - based box plant, the new rooftop solar project will help the company further reduce its impact on the environment by offsetting 45 percent of its grid - supplied electricity usage with clean, renewable solar energy.

India has very ambitious projects underway to build huge solar plants right now but it is a very poor country with a GDP per capita 3 % that of the US, just $ 1700 per year, so it's hardly unreasonable that they get help to transition away from coal fired power.

Largely because the migration of bighorn sheep would be affected, the city of Los Angeles has refused to buy electricity from the Soda Mountain Solar Project, a solar plant proposed for the Mojave Desert, even though the plant could help the city reach its goal of obtaining 35 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

Using examples of citizen science projects like Project Budburst, Journey North, and Frogwatch, the authors show that kids have already helped to observe and record how plants and animals change their habitats or behaviors as the climate changes.

When combined with Florida - based FPL Group's recently announced 250 MW solar thermal plant, which will be built in the Mojave Desert, Southern California Edison's project will help boost the amount of solar energy - derived electricity by more than 50 %.

A previous project had them providing kits help help folk turn urine in to plant fertiliser.

Check out how these teens reached out to help our critical pollinators survive.Marquette teens and Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) youth spent this summer building the first of dozens of butterfly houses and planted 26,000 native plants as a part of the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project.