Sentences with phrase «thousands of new plants»

Even with lowered wages and thousands of new plants introduced into Mexico to export goods back to the United States, the unemployment situation is not improving.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Since then, his large - scale rallies, held in cooperation with local churches in towns and cities across the country, have drawn millions of people and seen thousands of new churches planted.

The company made room for its soaring demand by expanding its Bakersfield plant to bring on two production lines in the new 100 - thousand - square - feet, state - of - the - art facility.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

Billions of euros and thousands of jobs will flow from the historic deregulation of Europe's dairy sector, a string of Irish ministers promised at the opening this week of a vast new plant to make dried milk for developing markets.

Atlanta's hotel, host to presidents, CEOs and celebrities, welcomes thousands of «busy» new guests and plants a peach tree on Peachtree Street

Buildings that once housed thousands of juvenile offenders in rural Perth may soon have scores of new tenants kept under lock and key: marijuana plants.

Governors Island is on the fast - track to getting a lot greener, with workers planting the first of nearly a thousand trees for a new park that is opening a full year ahead of schedule.

«At the same time that the Energy Company was paying Percoco's wife and the union president's daughter tens of thousands of dollars per year for low - show jobs, Kelly repeatedly sought Percoco's assistance in advocating on the Energy Company's behalf to various State officials, and the union president advocated directly to Percoco regarding the union's support for the Energy Company's proposed New York power plant and submitted a letter from his union, addressed to Governor Cuomo, setting forth the union's support for the plant,» the letter submitted by prosecutors states.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says part of the Indian Point nuclear power plant remains offline after a transformer fire that has created another problem: potentially thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

A pilot manufacturing plant at 24M's headquarters in Cambridge has produced thousands of test batteries to demonstrate the efficiency of the new design.

Only later did we learn that some of those critical investments included things like repairs on tennis courts, a study on the mating decisions of cactus bugs, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a plant database, and a $ 535 million loan to a California solar panel maker which, instead of hiring 1,000 new workers, as planned, just laid off 175 instead.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Meanwhile, Rinkevich is hoping to employ a new type of nursery, seeding thousands of corals onto long ropes that quickly resemble rock candy but can be more easily pulled out and quickly moved and planted than crated corals.

The authors then combined the new genomes with thousands of publicly available genomes that represent the major groups of plant - associated bacteria, and included bacteria from multiple plant and non-plant environments, such as the human gut, for comparison.

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

Even as species around the globe are rapidly falling prey to extinction, and countless others are threatened, scientists are still turning up new species of plants and animals every year — thousands of them.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

The organization has planted tens of thousands of quasi-ancient trees in the U.S. as well as six other countries as faraway as New Zealand and France.

Next - generation sequencing machines can now sequence an entire human genome in a few days, and this capability has inspired a flood of new projects aimed at sequencing the genomes of thousands of individual humans and a broad range of animal and plant species.

We have mapped the Earth's surface, but the creatures that live on it continue to elude us; every year brings news of thousands of newly discovered plant and animal species, some large (a new kind of orangutan was confirmed last year), some small (the dragon ant of Papua New Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindonew kind of orangutan was confirmed last year), some small (the dragon ant of Papua New Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindoNew Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindori.

The extensive landscaping project for the resort included the introduction of over 300 coconut palms and more than a thousand new plants and trees for the hotel grounds.

New Charme is surrounded by one thousand square meters of lush garden with lawn and ornamental plants.

The reorganized Coleco sold off all of its North American assets and outsourced thousands of jobs to foreign countries, closing plants in Amsterdam, New York and other cities.

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (bronze)(1913) by Umberto Boccioni • Fountain (urinal)(1917) by Marcel Duchamp • Bird in Space (bronze)(1923) by Constantin Brancusi • Merzbau (3 - D collage)(c.1930 - 43) by Kurt Schwitters • Pierced Form (1931) by Barbara Hepworth • Fur Cup (1936) by Meret Oppenheim • Presidential Portraits, Mount Rushmore (1941) Gutzon Borglum • Horse (bronze)(1950) by Marino Marini • Sky Cathedral (painted wood)(1958) by Louise Nevelson • Homage to New York (exploding construction)(1960) by Jean Tinguely • Untitled (Stack)(lacquered iron)(1967) by Donald Judd • A Thousand Years (installation)(1990) by Damien Hirst • Apple Core (1992) by Claes Oldenburg • Puppy (Plants, wood, earth)(1992) by Jeff Koons • My Bed (installation)(1999) by Tracey Emin • 227: The Lights Going On and Off (conceptual art)(2001) Martin Creed • Controller of the Universe (tools and wire)(2007) by Damian Ortega

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

If the government balks at requiring a few hundred power plants to install rudimentary emission controls, how can thousands of farms or crores of motorists be expected to accept new regulations?

These new power plants will create thousands of new jobs at a time when state and local communities badly need them.

Emissions from power plants in New York State are down approximately 45 percent since 2005, and auction proceeds from sale of the RGGI allowances have reduced electricity expenditures and created thousands of green energy sector jobs.

The new rules are expected to save up to 11,000 lives each year and avoid tens of thousands of asthma attacks by ensuring that the dirtiest power plants in the nation install the available technology to cut mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants.

EPA's Clean Power Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 years.

Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.

Concentrated solar plants are a relatively new technology that has the potential to provide hundreds of thousands of homes with clean energy.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

In the summer of 1937, Popular Mechanics wrote an article touting hemp as a «new billion dollar crop,» indicating thousands of uses for the plant now that the technology to process hemp efficiently was available.

Stopping 100 new coal plants has also kept thousands of tons of asthma - causing soot and smog pollution, as well as toxins like mercury, out of our air and water.

Matt Yglesias points us to a new study, which finds that pollution reduces working productivity — and acts as a drag on the economy: We already know that emissions from coal plants and factories cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to the economy annually, in the form of health care costs (not to mention causing tens of thousands of deaths, respiratory illnesses, missed school and work days, and so forth).

Green roofs are not new; they have been used for thousands of years because they helped insulate, thrived in the sun instead of rotting, and other than the increased structure, they were cheap as, well, the dirt that they were planted in.

In the new research, a thousand feet of additional melting has exposed plants that laboratory analysis shows to be about 6,300 years old.

Retiring the Danskammer coal plant was an important step in that direction, but bringing the plant back would again put the health of thousands of New Yorker's at risk — just when they thought they would be able to breathe easier.»

We recently moved, so I can think of a thousand things I would get at Home Depot; new bathroom hardware (towel holders, TP holder, etc.) paint, kitchen knobs, paint, door mat, paint, annual plants, drawer organizers and did I mention paint?

Whether it's the entire exterior or just the porch or front gate, anything that looks faded will look a thousand times better after it gets a fresh coat of paint • Install a new storm door, if yours is out of date • Purchase new blinds, curtains or shutters if yours have seen better days (and leave them open during viewings and open houses) • Add porch planters filled with pretty seasonal flowers and greenery • If you have a big enough porch, consider adding a bench or two - seat bistro table with a plant on top.