Sentences with phrase «urban waste by»

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Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

Solomon and Anissa Listak, executive director of the recently founded Urban Teacher Residency Institute (UTRI), insist that investing in teacher preparation up front will save the staggering sums wasted by teacher turnover.

Assemblages by John Outterbridge like Ragman, Urban Man, and No Time for Forgiving (with that NO in block wooden capitals) speak of the same streets and of Llyn Foulkes in the burbs or Ed Kienholz up in the Bay Area, as does Raymond Saunders with his waste of news clippings and a flag, and anyway Purifoy worked at the new Watts Towers Arts Center, opened in 1970.

Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum - security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban gangs.

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

Like other urban farming initiatives, rooftop farms promote sustainable living by contributing to the local food production system and to recycling urban organic waste.

Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.

A global - scale instrumental temperature record that has not been contaminated by (a) artificial urban heat (asphalt, machines, industrial waste heat, etc.), (b) ocean - air affected biases (detailed herein), or (c) artificial adjustments to past data that uniformly serve to cool the past and warm the present... is now available.

As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2005 it had been largely replaced by wood chips, urban waste, and lignite.

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

This proposes expansion of the CDM's Programme of Activities approach to enable aggregation of city - based GHG mitigation reductions broadly covered by five sectors: energy, transport, solid waste, water and wastewater, and urban forestry.

Achieving the recovery of 220ppm of CO2 by 2100, and thereby conserving at least a fraction of marine life by steadily reversing acidification, would mean sequestering around 9.2 GtsC / yr for 50 yrs, which would almost certainly require the local processing of additional biomass from urban, farm and forestry wastes.

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Thirdly, urban agriculture and urban forestry contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change by reducing runoff, keeping flood plains free from construction, reducing urban temperatures, capturing dust and CO2, while growing fresh food close to consumers reduces energy spent in transport, cooling, processing and packaging, whilst productive reuse of urban organic wastes and wastewater (and the nutrients these contain) reduces methane emissions from landfills and energy use in fertilizer production.

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The Accra working group on urban agriculture, with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly as a member, has drafted revised by laws on the use of waste water and support an awareness campaign on health risk minimisation strategies in production and marketing (Farm to Fork) of urban vegetables.

As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2007 oil had been largely replaced by wood chips and urban waste.

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

Water is also polluted by industrial and urban waste.

He works with students, faculty and administration to change the culture of the institution to help incorporate sustainable practices by reducing building energy use, increasing water efficiency, air quality programs, waste reduction, urban agriculture, social justice, and green purchasing to name a few.

SANIMAS, meaning «sanitation by communities» in Bahasa, is centered on Ismawati's creation of a series of replicable waste and sanitation management options for urban poor settlements.

Conducted by a team of Indian researchers led by Swati Pattnaik and M. Vikram Reddy of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, at Pondicherry University, the research holds particular promise for dealing with the growing problem of urban organic waste which is often dumped on the outskirts of major settlements, polluting soils and causing issues for groundwater contamination.

Like providing appropriate housing for indigenous people living on the city centre fringe, providing sustainable infrastructure support for the burgeoning urban sprawl, reinvigorating discussion on urban renewal by population density consolidation, managing the extensive stormwater runoff that pollutes the beaches and waterways, while wasting precious rainwater.

«That includes upgrading agricultural and urban water - use efficiencies by doing things like recycling our waste water.