Sentences with phrase «rural communities lacking»

Sunfarmer, which supplies solar energy services to rural communities lacking access to reliable and affordable electricity by providing technology and innovative financing solutions.

Not exact matches

But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.

Lack of demand may also present a challenge to many rural business owners, according to an article by William Shuffstall, senior extension educator, Economic and Community Development, at PennState Extension (@agsciences).

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

In our rural community, someone had posted a teachers name and her «success rate» (or lack thereof) in getting her class to pass the ASK, on a commercial billboard... it was a failing mark by any standard.

Chad Eldred, the navigator director of the Southern Tier Independence Center, also says often in more rural communities, it is a greater challenge to get uninsured people signed up because of a lack of Internet or transportation.

She and Mack T. Ruffin IV, M.D., MPH, professor emeritus and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, studied excessive drinking behavior in women from rural Appalachian Ohio because of a surprising lack of empirical data.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

The immigrants from low - income nations President Trump disparaged earlier this month in a closed - door White House meeting (he reportedly referred to them as «shithole» countries) may well have been driven from communities in rural Africa by economic hardship related to lack of power, Rogers said.

In a busy, hectic society when we have little time available to go out socially, if we live in a rural area with lack of access to a visible gay community and find it difficult to decipher who's gay versus straight when out on the town, social media makes for a great leveraging tool to meet other single gay men.

Though rural communities can offer unusually tight social connections, they can lack other amenities that might attract young teachers, such as cultural diversity and proximity to entertainment venues.

We are working here to develop a solution to a very specific, yet highly consequential, problem that afflicts rural and poor communities across the U.S. — students who have the aptitude and work ethic to excel academically often lack access to the advanced coursework needed to fulfill their potential.

These principals face unique challenges — and are stymied by a lack of research about solutions for these challenges in rural communities.

Students that have opportunities are leaving rural communities and the students who do not see opportunities are staying, creating a vicious cycle and a lack of global awareness and a lack of people to expand beyond the community.

Nearly 70 percent of schools lack a high - speed Internet connection, and a disproportionate number of them are in poor urban and rural communities, according to estimates from the FCC.

Issues in rural schools can include fewer resources for students and teachers; lack of access to professional development and student training opportunities; community isolation; students having the same teachers for multiple subjects and grade levels; and fewer extracurricular activities.

The proposed voucher program also brought up concerns about the lack of accessibility and affordability of private schools for low - income and rural communities.

In a finding that speaks to the vital role that libraries play, it was those libraries that serve rural communities that reported the highest book circulation numbers, largely due to the lack of bookstores in these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailers.

As is the case in many suburban and rural communities across the Garden State, limited public transportation and lack of walkability place restrictions on how young people get around.

There are large numbers of undesexed dogs and cats in rural and remote communities where there is a lack of services.

Almost all these communities are rural, and some lack an animal shelter, veterinary clinics, or animal control services.

It's not a reflection on the worth of the people in either city, it's an acknowledgement that resources are typically lacking in poor and rural communities.

While living in rural Illinios, Monica noticed the stark lack of resources available for community cats and decided to do something about it.

Monica Frenden noticed the stark lack of resources for community cats in rural Illinois and decided to do something about it so she founded a trap - neuter - return organization that sterilized thousands of cats.

Often lacking diverse economic systems, several rural Eastern European communities suffer major poverty and loss as a result of lost logistics contracts from major global industries.

One reason thousands of rural communities peppering the slopes and valleys outside the Katmandu metropolis were particularly hard hit is that they lack access even to wood for construction timbers in the deforested highlands — let alone reinforced concrete.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

Noise emissions disrupt and destroy communities quality of life and health status and regulatory authorities by ignoring the evidence of impacts on health and the uselessness of wind energy as being seen around the world, even in Germany, lack the duty of care and responsibility to rural communities being adversely impacted which we rightfully deserve.

The lack of access to energy directly impacts the ability of rural communities to develop.

Nigeria's government has just announced its intention to make another round of investments in solar energy to supply up to 10 rural communities that currently lack access to the national power grid.

As with many professions, the lack of legal articling positions is partly due to the fact that law graduates do not want to leave the major centres for smaller, rural communities.

Many of the grant communities, particularly the rural ones, reported that a lack of services poses a major challenge to creating individualized service plans.

By that date, USDA will revert to using a definition not updated since 1974 which requires communities to: 1) be outside of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), 2) be «rural in character», 2) have a serious lack of mortgage credit, and 3) have a population under 20,000.

The lack of high speed internet is a widespread issue that affects the entire country, especially in rural communities.