Sentences with phrase «toward environmental programs»

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The goals of the new certification program are to enhance transparency, encourage statewide participation and advance the entire California wine industry toward best practices in environmental stewardship, conservation of natural resources and socially equitable business practices.

An energy efficiency program focused on such things as EPA SmartWay trailers and fuel efficient truck fleets means this carrot company has lower carbon emissions and is working toward a smaller environmental footprint.

«The program gives winegrowers environmental goals to work toward while rewarding them with reduced costs and, potentially, reduced regulation as they move well beyond compliance.»

It's unclear exactly what all the money will be used for, but there's an understanding that some of it will go toward the Environmental Protection Fund, which supports a variety of programs.

Environmental Advocates is criticizing the governor's decision to pull $ 36 million from the state's cap - and - trade program and put it toward unrelated projects.

The Committee recommended to apply such funding toward enhaancing two existing programs: to train contracted child care providers to screen vulnerable children for environmental delays; and to provide year - round services to youth to improve their training and work - readiness skills through support services and employment.

«The Clean Heat Program has made important strides toward improving the air quality in New York City,» says first author Daniel Carrión, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Toward activities to promote the integration of environmental studies and principles of sustainable development in teacher training programs: $ 247,000...

Thesis students are encouraged to deeply examine personal as well as broad cultural, social and environmental concerns toward an architectural solution incorporating program, site, technologies and poetics.

de Rigo, Daniele and Corti, Paolo and Caudullo, Giovanni and McInerney, Daniel and Di Leo, Margherita and San - Miguel - Ayanz, Jesús (2013): Toward open science at the European scale: geospatial semantic array programming for integrated environmental modelling.

The evening will also include a question and answer session about the film, a screening that highlights the environmental themes in the film, and sponsorship of a separate Avatar showing and environmental training program geared toward at - risk students in the city.

This is about putting your latte toward a structured program to maintain high environmental standards in Cuba while improving the conditions of working farmers there» says David Zavislake of Merchants of Green Coffee, a Canadian importer.

I'm wondering if there's been a big trend in college curriculums and degree programs that more students are going toward degrees and careers in environmental engineering or environmental science.

The United Nations General Assembly, by consensus including Australia, outlined a program toward sustainable development, in which it emphasised «Economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development... [R] espect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development, transparent and accountable governance in all sectors of society, as well as effective participation by civil society, are also an essential part of the necessary foundation for the realization of social and people - centred sustainable development», (19 September 1997), UN document A / RES / s -19 / 2, para 23.

Though Canada has yet to implement a complete plan for regulating environmental and energy efficiency standards in the home, a wide variety of incentive programs across all levels of government shows that the first steps toward a comprehensive ecological rethink of how consumers and businesses think about the home are underway.