Sentences with phrase «say environmental initiatives»

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McMillan said initiatives including the recently proposed replacements of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Energy Board are harming Canada's reputation as a transparent and fair place to do business.

«Social entrepreneurship is about people starting any initiative that has a social, environmental or community objective,» says Siri Terjesen, a professor at American University who co-authored the report, in a press release.

«This is a huge step forward for us in our initiative to improve our ingredients, and work with partners that have the same dedication to environmental responsibility as we do,» says Gary Huether, Jr., President and Co-Founder of Arooga's Grille House & Sports Bar.

«This is a proven environmental initiative by Cadia that demonstrates its concern to optimize conservation of water as a resourced shared with the broader community,» said CST Waste Water Solutions Managing Director Michael Bambridge.

Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.

But the Legislature failed to act on a controversial Paterson plan that would have provided $ 6 million to open the parks, but included what lawmakers said was a poison pill that would have cut other environmental initiatives.

Moore says Cuomo has not made new environmental initiatives a priority, and that has influenced the fate of bills in the Senate and the Assembly.

«We've addressed a lot of issues in town, considerate of the needs of the townspeople,» he said, noting they'd worked to make the budget process transparent, supported vital environmental initiatives like mandatory boat inspection for invasive species, and accomplished extensive repair of failing sewer infrastructure — while keeping taxes low.

«As I stated in my «Initiatives for a Smart Economy» address, the protection and restoration of the health and integrity of Western New York's fresh water systems is not only sound environmental policy but also represents a smart investment in our economic future,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Annette Fredette, 4FRI planning team leader at the Forest Service's Flagstaff office, said forcing discussion among different interests throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process is «both the challenge and the value» of the initiative.

«The lack of a modern glossary for resistance was recently brought to our attention by an initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking input on definitions of terms about resistance,» said Dr. Mark Whalon, one of the co-authors from Michigan State University, who directs the online Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database and who also serves as the Entomological Society of America's Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs.

Proponents of the gene protection initiative — a diverse coalition of environmental, animal - rights, and political groups that collected 111,000 signatures to bring the proposal to a vote — say their fight isn't over.

But look at another map, said Sritharan, the Wilkinson Chair in Iowa State University's College of Engineering, a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and the interim assistant dean for strategic initiatives.

«With or without German support — or even without the [Ecuadorian] government's support — the initiative remains valid and legitimate, not only for the indigenous people that live within the borders of the national park but for Ecuadorian society and for the world as a whole,» said Ivonne Yanez, president of Acción Ecológica, a Quito - based environmental activist group which has been instrumental in raising the initiative's profile.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

A coalition of environmental, labor and other groups have said they will move ahead with a citizen's initiative this November if the Legislature did not act on a carbon policy.

Seth Dunn, a climate and energy analyst at the Worldwatch Institute, a private environmental group, said that a key to any initiative this fall will be to show the economic sense of using fuels sparingly and developing new sources of energy that do not add to the atmosphere's greenhouse burden.

But more studies are needed, says Caren Glotfelty, director of the environmental programme at the Heinz Endowments, a non-profit foundation run by Teresa Heinz Kerry that funds sustainable initiatives.

Marcus Wagner, global environmental manager, said the company would continue existing initiatives and programs to drive efficiency and innovation under its «avoid - reduce - compensate,» approach.The strategy sees the company avoid emissions where possible, for example through virtual telecommunication, reduce unavoidable emissions through efficiency programmes and e-mobility initiatives, and compensate for any remaining emissions.

Other countries «are watching this closely as one of, if not the, greatest indicators of the ambitions the U.S. has,» said David Waskow, director of the international climate action initiative at the environmental research group World Resources Institute.

Company officials said the group had become an impediment to pursuing environmental initiatives in a credible way.

Recent departures include Daimler Chrysler and Ford Motor Company, which said that membership in the GCC was «something of an impediment to pursuing our environmental initiative in a credible way.»

«It's not just knowing if these fuels can work in the planes, because that is known already,» said Warren Mabee, director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University, which is part of the initiative.

The environmental group Greenpeace says it has the solution: An initiative called Forests for Climate that would aim to raise as much as $ 15 billion per year to cut emissions from deforestation in half.

Michael Totten, senior director for climate and water initiatives at the environmental group Conservation International, said humans have made it more difficult for animal and plant species to adapt to the shifting climate by fragmenting natural habitat.

«This will mean that all infrastructure projects, including those under the president's stimulus initiative, will be subject to environmental review for greenhouse gases,» he said.

Renewable Energy Credits Purchased for All Electricity Use Though recycling is really the public face of the Open's green efforts, in terms of environmental impact, its energy usage perhaps has far greater impact — USTA Senior Director of Corporate Communications & chair of green initiatives, Rita Garza says approximately 2000 MWh of electricity are used during the qualifying matches and tournament itself.

So far, over 60 million people have been reached and we are continuing the initiative following the great response», says Cecilia Nord, Vice President - Floor Care Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Electrolux.

If Beijing doesn't continue down it's hyper environmental path, as Jeremy pondered here, the city may not be the only one that deserves blame.Greenpeace says the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOCOG) didn't make its various environmental initiatives binding, a choice that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) didn't require either.

«Jersey City, under Mayor Fulop's administration, has an established a reputation as a leader in «green» initiatives,» said Nadine Leslie, President of SUEZ Environmental Services.