Sentences with phrase «small scale efforts»

Expand current programmes and introduce new programmes to encourage small scale efforts to reduce net emissions.

The City can do much more to foster economic integration of elementary schools than the small scale efforts it has made to date.

Not exact matches

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

Crowdfunding has become a popular way to fund a variety of projects, from small - scale endeavors to large - scale, literally earth - shaping efforts.

Greider does his best to highlight hopeful, albeit mostly small - scale, efforts by «pioneers» who are attempting to reform the economy, people in for - profit and not - for - profit organizations as well as academics.

On the negative side, virtually all the innovative social - capital - generating efforts Putnam mentions are relatively small - scale and isolated.

Creating such small - scale alternatives isn't easy or altogether satisfactory, but it is worth the effort.

This has troubled the consciences of Christians and others in richer countries and the churches have shared in the voluntary efforts to send aid to victims of emergencies and to assist small - scale development projects.

For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmers.

While these models all start small, it's clear that the more people we talk to, the more communities that become engaged and the more businesses participating, the more likely we are to scale these scrappy, disruptive efforts.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

I appreciate the good work that the writers put in but a small effort in maintaining consistency in player ratings scale would help a lot.I guess I am not the only one unhappy with the way the ratings are being done.

He said the country is currently entering a new era of putting efforts in place to formalize the small - scale mining sector «so as to achieve sustainable mining with sound environmental practices.»

The efforts have yielded some positive results including a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for small - scale mining.

Partnered with Arden Farm in East Aurora, NY to strengthen their efforts in agri - tourism, health education and small scale organic farming (2014 - ongoing)

By late 2012, it adds, «the department had largely stopped developing systems for national roll - out and concentrated its efforts on preparing short - term solutions for the pathfinder» (the small scale trial of the system).

«So the scaling - up problem can be solved with a small effort.»

Even when the researchers excluded data from Vermont and Maine, which launched smaller - scale reform efforts, Massachusetts showed greater improvements.

The THaW team conducts research related to mobile and cloud technology for health and wellness applications, including authentication and privacy tools to protect health records, methods to secure small - scale clinical networks and efforts to reduce malicious activity in hospitals.

While one could point to many small - scale efforts that have sought to foster multidisciplinary research either within or across institutions, Bargmann says CZI, which includes members from many research institutions, is taking a more comprehensive approach.

These efforts have already led to the successful treatment of municipal wastewater and sewage sludge at the 100 - gallon per - day scale, enough to support a small household.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

So I really would suggest you take it slowly, item by item, and log your reactions to the same thing raw and cooked, and check quantities, and check combos... it IS hard and laborious and sisyphean, and by way of encouragement let me add it took me months of logging everything in a little notebook kept on the kitchen counter alongside a small digital scale, but the effort's worth it because in the end you'll know exactly what's nay and what's aye and that makes living in a world loaded with food so much easier.

Silas Chou's failed experiment at Thakoon is not the end of «see now, buy now,» but it does underscore the limits of the approach for smaller brands and the sheer scale of investment and effort required to make it work.

During this period Dating Factory expanded into the UK and US markets by acquiring some small and medium dating sites with active databases as well as scaling up their marketing effort in those territories.

The scale is much smaller than it was on Disney's first three efforts.

DuVernay, whose previous directorial efforts were small - scale domestic dramas, is one of the very few black women making Hollywood movies.

It's the director's smallest - scaled effort since «Reservoir Dogs,» his first film that could easily work on the stage.

Director Jon Favreau returns to his screenwriting roots for this all - star, small - scale comedy exploring Chef Carl's (Favreau) efforts to rediscover his love of cooking.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

It's therefore not surprising that small - yet - connected groups have been at the heart of many successful large - scale reform efforts.

This session will take a deep dive into Communities In Schools of North Carolina's efforts to «scale - up» the implementation of Check & Connect — starting as a small pilot project and moving to its current form: a state - wide implementation.

Previously a teacher and school leader, William has substantial experience in education evaluation ranging from small program analysis focused on improving instructional practices to large - scale data management and analysis related to state - level turnaround efforts.

While policymakers often focus on dramatic, large - scale efforts, small programs can pay big dividends.

The multi-market efforts in these states mirror the approach used in smaller - scale demonstration projects completed in 2011 in Hartford, CT, and Syracuse, NY.

In recent years, thanks largely to the efforts of HSI and our partner groups, this event has become gradually more muted and small - scale.

Holly has volunteered and worked in many different animal welfare arenas, ranging from small grassroots groups to large - scale public - private partnership efforts.

Holly has volunteered and worked in many different animal welfare arenas, ranging from very small grassroots groups to large - scale public / private partnership efforts.

While I am neither a practicing artist, nor do I live in North Carolina, my role in planning BMS was a remote one, largely confined to small - scale fundraising efforts and the initial surge of academic background on the original college.

Scaled up, it has lost some of the vigour and focus that often characterises the gallery's smaller efforts, and the result is a High Renaissance exhibition as austere as its chilly grey walls.

Along with his ongoing production of paintings, Graeber's engagement with sculpture has been fairly constant over the years, with his best efforts being simple small scale works that are aesthetically alive when viewed from any vantage point.

Two rounds of open - heart surgery, pneumonia and a bout of radiation therapy over the last two years had hobbled Mr. Diebenkorn, making his breathing so difficult that eventually his creative efforts were limited to drawings and other small - scale works he could produce while bedridden.

Our generation of elders appears to be doing a woefully inadequate job of helping our children understand that the current, relentless, business - as - usual effort to grow the global economy, given the gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of the economic globalization, could soon become patently unsustainable on a small, finite planet with the size and make - up of Earth.

Efforts to develop small - scale, affordable technology are growing.

Efforts like composting, and maybe even small - scale waste - to - energy projects, could pop up at churches, temples, and other centers of worship as these organizations work to wring every bit of use out of this «waste» while reducing their carbon footprints and other environmental impacts.

Now that the Coalition has come out in favour of rooftop (domestic) solar — confirming its intention to maintain the Small - Scale Renewable Scheme (SRES)-- Labor's rejection of any deal involving cuts to the LRET can be seen for what it is: an effort to protect the wind industry, in which it holds a financial interest.

I signed a partnership with World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Grenada's Prime Minister, and Denmark's Minister for Climate and Energy which recognizes the disproportionate harm of climate change for small island developing states and aims to support island countries to scale up their renewable energy efforts and shift to greater energy efficiency.

There is simply no way we can stay within our carbon emissions budget with only individual or small - scale efforts.

SHSs and other solar lighting technologies provide modest amounts of electricity to several million people like Doña Maria across the developing world; small scale solar energy systems have emerged as keystone technologies in international efforts to address energy poverty.

Re climate science and IPCC, I'll suggest that any internal biases that run counter to self - correction are small in comparison to the immense scale of the anti-science efforts arrayed against the discipline.