Sentences with phrase «to abandon the land»

Used as an illegal dumping site, the plot of abandoned land was transformed into a neighborhood park for local residents and an open studio and exhibition space for artists.
Some visitors may not want to and abandon the landing page at this point, but those who really want to know if their debt relief program will help them will fill it out.
As coffee prices fall, such as during the coffee crisis in the 1990s, some farmers simply abandoned their land.
As the drought continued, farmers and their families abandoned their land and headed to urban areas for work.
Farmers, the original entrepreneurs, are finding a profitable niche in the vast amount of abandoned land in the Motor City.
They are kept in stables dotted around the impoverished neighbourhood of Strawberry Mansion on abandoned land.
Getting back to the tribulations of the pollsters in recent years, one wonders why this is occurring, there are a host of possible reasons, but one I wonder about is the possibity that pollsters are only contacting people who retain their land lines for phones, as more and more people abandon their land lines in favour of their mobile is it possible that those who retain land lines fall into a specific segment of society whose similarities are such that they would skew the results of a poll?
Far off, Far off and not involving us, at last Happily powerless and eating well, The machines that enslaved clouds and tides Stripped down to serve our long abandoned land And the boys who left these bright, genuine fields For fool's gold deserts home now, wizened men, Poor as the wise are poor, flush with enough.
Pricey organic farmers markets in New Paltz and Rhinebeck belie hundreds of acres of trailer parks and abandoned land spreading to the north and west.
Later on, there was a post office until Petrie closed his mill and basically abandoned the land.
The Ottoman regime allowed locals to cultivate abandoned lands classified as Mawat, meaning, in a state of death.
Robert McLeman, a University of Ottawa geographer who studies climate migration, says the rich mostly stayed put, not wanting to abandon their land holdings.
The Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation and Enforcement reports that over 6 million acres of abandoned mine land exist in the U.S.
Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects — putting abandoned land to use and helping revive the Appalachian economy.
The NESTown development concept envisions the building of self - sufficient, environmentally friendly «semi-urban centers» in rural Ethiopia that would allow farmers to improve their financial prospects without abandoning the land.
Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.
Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
The city is home to a stunning 139 square miles of blighted or abandoned land.
allah, buddah, jehovah, etc., must be DEVASTATED, HEART - BROKEN, LONELY, AND FEELING USELESS, since those they've created have abandoned the lands they were created from and sought self - satisfaction throughout the world of man.
A new study shows that degraded, marginal or abandoned land may not be very productive for growing fuel crops
Abandoned land must be rehabilitated by enriching the soil with fertilizer and by planting trees and shrubs to control erosion.
People returned to abandoned lands and began using fire to improve land for grazing animals and to cultivate crops.
From falling prices and farmer livelihoods to abandoned lands and jobs, this debate isn't really about whether food gives you cancer.
Bringing the variety of life back to Europe's abandoned lands and exploring new ways for people to earn a good living from the wild.
One worldly subplot is the corruption of men with money and power who literally run the «little guy» out of town, as is the case with several characters whom we think we can trust who literally burn the small farms of single families in order to take ownership of their abandoned land.
In 1846 United States Capt. Samuel Du Pont, entered the abandoned land where the fort once stood and raised their flag.
Bringing the variety of life back to Europe's abandoned lands and exploring new ways for people to earn a good living from the wild.
Traction Magazine has published an interview with the artist Jim Woodall, one half of the two - man collaboration behind «Abandoned Land: Sharp Continent».
Among his most recent solo exhibitions are «Greetings From the Abandoned Land,» David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2017), «Reminiscent of Time Passed,» Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art (2016), «Diorama» at the Galeria Sagrado Corazon, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2015), «Landview» at the Walter Otero Contemporary Art, Miami (2014), and «Fallout» at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2013).
The essay begins with a dissection of the term «refugee» in the context of the media labeling Hurricane Katrina evacuees as such (essentially stripping them of their American citizenry) and the earlier establishment of the Bureau of Freedman, Refugees and Abandoned Lands, the government entity that served as a resource for slaves after the Civil War.
The project was created in 2014 to plant on 15 abandoned lands (or not properly regenerated) in the historical and pastoral landscape of South - Eastern Quebec and will sequester a portion of Southern Quebec's atmospheric carbon for at least 50 years.
Losing irrigation water may mean either abandoning land or less double cropping.
The long - term vision of the project is to establish a solar manufacturing facility and a series of 20MW to 200MW solar photovoltaic installations on the abandoned mine land of Black Mesa.
In many cases farmers in the region — among the poorest people in the world — are abandoning their lands and migrating to already overcrowded cities.
Even large - scale farmers who are allocated large areas for cultivation, abandon the land and leave it as bare when it becomes non-productive.
Shahid Mahmud, who heads the EPA's team on abandoned mine land, said mining companies could be doing a lot more.
The project was created in 2014 to plant on 15 abandoned lands (or not properly regenerated) in the historical and pastoral landscape of South - Eastern Quebec, and will sequester a portion of Southern Quebec's atmospheric carbon for at least 50 years.more
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