Sentences with phrase «public lands as»

The attendees promoted increasing sustainable transportation, producing local food, and restoring public lands as part of five service projects around the community.

National Park Service Takes Lead in Promoting Access to Parks and Public Lands as Catalysts to Improved Public Health and Lower Healthcare Costs

«Park Prescriptions takes an innovative, proactive approach to utilizing parks and public lands as health resources,» said Cleveland Justis, director of the Institute at the Golden Gate.

National Park Service Takes Lead in Promoting Access to Parks and Public Lands as Catalysts to Improved Public Health and Lower Healthcare Costs more

In Illinois and Michigan, they work against hunting dog trials on public lands as an extension of campaigns against hunting in any form.

«By taking cars off the road and reducing harmful emissions and pollutants in our nation's most natural and pristine settings, we're helping Americans and visitors from around the world enjoy these public lands as they were meant to be enjoyed,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.

«This remarkable discovery illustrates the importance of America's public lands as places where scientists have access to perform research that benefits everyone,» said Cindy Ott - Jones, Superintendent of Big Bend National Park.

It was established in 2011 to reframe the role of parks and public lands as health resources, and to promote the health of people and the environment.

Actress and environmentalist Sigourney Weaver is the narrator of a new video ad campaign urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to protect roughly 30,000 acres of new public land as motor - free wilderness.

In a related action, the DOI also cordoned off nearly 10 million of acres of public land as sage grouse habitat and prohibited any economic activity on the land, such as mining or fracking.

The site includes material and position statements from major players, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NAR, the National Association of Home Builders, the Sierra Club, and the Trust for Public Land as well as Bank of America.

Not exact matches

As for forestry, most provinces require people who work on public land to be certified as Registered Professional Foresters (RPFAs for forestry, most provinces require people who work on public land to be certified as Registered Professional Foresters (RPFas Registered Professional Foresters (RPF).

I was a public affairs Marine, yeah, a POG and a short - timer, who somehow got it into his head that four years writing glorified propaganda would land me a job as a civilian journalist.

Now, Spotify is expanding the range of those ads as it gets ready for a public offering that is expected to land sometime next year.

And as noted above, the use of stone boundary markers rather than wooden or clay ones indicated that alienations of land to the public sector (usually to the palace) were irreversible, in contrast to communal land tenure.

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

The Bank made an about - face as it began to force countries to privatize their public domain, including the land.

But with the crude oil export ban lifted and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on the rise, landowners like Rosinski are starting to question whether or not giving up their land to serve these private aims qualifies as «public good.»

The BLM supports an all of the above energy approach, which includes oil and gas, coal, strategic minerals, and renewable energy resources such as wind, geothermal and solar — all of which may be developed on public lands and subject to free markets.

All this was viewed (by classical economists) as something that government regulators should get rid of, either by not permitting it in price, or by holding the monopolies in the public domain, or by the land itself being either nationalized or taxed.

The speech lists five key fundamentals that should stand Australia in good stead: a strong institutional framework (including the rule of law, respect for property rights, a well - functioning public administration, and a well - established regulatory system); our people, who are diverse, well educated, have a «can do» mentality and a demonstrated capability for adjusting to change; a large endowment of mineral resources; large tracts of agricultural land and an ability to produce high - quality clean food; and an established services industry with the potential for considerable expansion as average incomes in Asia rise.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

It was waged by the oligarchy (which had enriched itself largely by privatizing public land after the Punic Wars with Carthage, much as today's oligarchy has grown rich by privatization and public - private financial «cooperation»).

As my colleague Mr. Harrison has explained, Russia's land, fuel and minerals and public monopolies are capable of generating a sufficient volume of economic rent to fund the government budget.

The labor theory of value aimed at isolating the economic rent as a margin that either was to be taxed away (for land and natural resources that were privatized) or kept in the public domain (for infrastructure and other natural monopolies).

As Archbishop Chaput observes in his Erasmus Lecture published in this issue («Strangers in a Strange Land»), the public reality of marriage gives its redefinition powerful «sign value.»

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The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

The people, commoners, were discriminated against by the ruling Yangban class; they were exploited as tillers of the land and producers of goods, they were forcibly conscribed as corvee, and most of them were subjugated as private and public slaves.

Hmmm... well, if a «splintered Supreme Court» believes religious symbols are appropriate on public land, perhaps non-believers should simply make an effort to invert those religious symbols (almost certainly crosses as this is the U.S.A.).

• The necessary funds must come from fines and private mawqufat (endowments) taken into public ownership, as when the owners of land or goods die without heirs.

He criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. the Board of Education, and in 1956, at the invitation of the governor, he addressed a joint session of South Carolina's legislature to support the concept of separate but equal for churches as well as for the public schools of the land.

He had dealt with various areas such as agriculture, old soldiers, public health, war treaties, capitalism, capital punishment, coinage, communism, land, old age pensions, divorce, artificial insemination, slaughter houses, reformation of criminals, tramps money, over population and others.

The 7 - km race — which bills itself as the only nude - running event in North America to be held on public land — will take place along the beachfront of Pacific Spirit Regional Park during the lowest tide of the year.

Some of the land will likely be used to replace a playground that will be removed as part of a new public garden going in west of the conservatory.

Half a century later its last owner, Thomas Wilder, bequeathed the land, mansion and greenhouse to the city as a public resource.

After the discussion, Naperville Park District Executive Director Ray McGury said he believes the project is a cultural amenity as it is on land donated to the city by Caroline Martin Mitchell for public use.

The Park District Board, though voting to pursue the property, attached four conditions to its cooperation with the village, and one of them is essentially what Regan wants from the village as well: public access to the land.

The district made a good - faith offer to the owners before the Prospect Heights Park District sued and was committed to keeping the land as a public golf course, said Kathleen Field Orr, a Chicago lawyer who specializes in municipal law.

But while neighborhood groups sometimes have helped raise money for such amenities as playgrounds and field houses, perhaps the district's most valuable alliance has been with the non-profit Trust for Public Land, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open spLand, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open spland for parks and open space.

Meanwhile, archeologists have been working since last summer at the site as part of a state - mandated survey of any land that will be developed for a public purpose.

The proposal would allocate portions of the cost of engineering services to design and prepare construction plans for public improvements, such as roads, sewer and water lines, sidewalks and streetlights, according to the amount of land owned.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said that while the agency encouraged the use of public land, concern over the Blue Hole — a popular swimming spot in the Catskills — had grown, as the «postage stamp - sized area» recently began drawing up to 1,000 visitors a day, resulting in new regulations.

Peter Kauffmann, who resigned his post as Gov. David Paterson's communications director in the wake of ethics charges brought against his boss by the Public Integrity Commission, has landed a new job in the private sector.

Whether held as commercial assets in the form of land and real estate or as financial assets in sovereign wealth funds, the nature and extent of public wealth is often misunderstood.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

As a matter of public policy, the law of the land rewards us for taking a personal role in the advancement of society.

He has not made any public appearances in Albany as lawmakers struggled to land deals before the session's scheduled end, though he did participate in closed door negotiations with legislative leaders.

However, we now see Johnson making public speeches where he overstates and distorts his role in land use negotiations, and furthermore, brags passionately about fantasy residential developments that were never built, as though people are actually living in them!

Hundreds of citizens from across Buffalo Niagara texted in their answers and made their voice heard on topics as diverse as public transportation, land use, vacancy, and food access.