Sentences with phrase «tiny island state»

As noted above, for a tiny island state with a population just over 1 million, their contribution to, and example for, the solar hot water market is truly commendable.

As the country's traditional wine growing regions including the Barossa, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River grow ever hotter and drier, winemakers are rushing to the tiny island state of Tasmania.

Not exact matches

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed Tuesday in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

These countries include the likes of the tiny island of Réunion; there are only 195 UN member states.

Tiny boat reaches a top speed of 40mph - and can be customised to become a luxurious party venue, a taxi and even an ambulance Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island

And yes, there were some concerns that a sprawling resort with a Greg Norman golf course, a 60 - slip marina, a 17 - room spa, a state - of - the - art fitness center, a 5,000 - square - foot casino, and fine - dining restaurants would change the essential timbre of this necklace of tiny islands and cays.

Seen from space, the 607 - island nation that is the Federated States of Micronesia are tiny specs of green floating in a million square miles of blue.

A tiny treasure rising out of the emptiness of the southern Pacific Ocean and part of the Australian state of New South Wales, Lord Howe Island is one of the world's last truly unspoiled Island destinations.

While not all of the needed investment will have adaptation benefits, any adaptation projects that also reduce emissions are especially attractive, and these seven projects show that, from urban centers to rural states in North America, and from tropical agriculture to tiny island nations, finding synergies between mitigation and adaptation isn't just possible, it is already happening.

It was a remarkable triumph for a long campaign by the small island states, proving that even tiny nations, armed with a powerful moral case, can change the world.

Construction of the massive Block Island Wind Farm got under way last year, providing the tiny state with claiming rights to the first offshore wind farm on the entire Atlantic coast.

In fact, tiny Rhode Island — which seems to be one of the few states to have slipped under the Koch radar — has been leading the offshore wind energy pack.

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu is urging the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, before the island - state sinks beneath the ocean's lapping waves.

And while many of the collaborators may be tiny island nations with modest terrestrial areas, their expansive exclusive economic zones (EEZ) effectively make them massive ocean states.

As the week drew to a close, we took this spirit of resistance and joined an existing struggle on the nearby île de Sein, where many on the tiny island are pushing to end their dependence on oil — the source of all the island's energy, controlled by the state - owned French company EDF.

My family is heading out of suburbia this Saturday to go stay at my cabin built by my husbands grandfather in the 1950's on a tiny island here in WA state... sans electricity & indoor plumbing.