Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and
urban waste with sensors or digital mapping techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.
Not exact matches
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.
The whole phenomenon of
urban and suburban sprawl
with its extreme
waste and costliness can be reversed.
Expert presentations covered diverse topics including food
waste and the circular economy,
urban and rural case studies on harnessing food
waste, and a panel discussion on the food supply chain,
with presentations from primary production, manufacturing and distribution, retail and food service, and hospitality experts.
Our ventures also prevent the
waste of millions of pounds of nutritious food, expand access to healthy, local options in
urban food deserts, and scale our model nationally through strategic partnerships
with colleges and universities.
Government has also launched what it calls the Integrated
Urban Environmental Sanitation Master Plan (IUESMP), to complement all existing strategies in the sanitation, drainage and water management sub-sectors to holistically deal
with sanitation and
waste.
The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in
urban areas
with higher human and mosquito population densities, in years
with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-human hosts that result in
wasted bites.
Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Kathryn Bigelow Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce Plot: An elite bomb squad in Iraq is assigned a new sergeant who
wastes no time taking his unit into the deadly
urban chaos
with reckless abandon.
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With an increase in urban living, along with consumers» busy lifestyles, more than ever pet parents are looking for hassle - free and advanced waste - management solutions.&ra
With an increase in
urban living, along
with consumers» busy lifestyles, more than ever pet parents are looking for hassle - free and advanced waste - management solutions.&ra
with consumers» busy lifestyles, more than ever pet parents are looking for hassle - free and advanced
waste - management solutions.»
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.
For Working Back he will show photographic documentation of ephemeral sculptural forms made
with things found in proximity to one another in the
waste sites that surround the
urban environment.
Phyllida Barlow's practice reflects a distinct new direction in contemporary sculpture, one concerned
with urban detritus,
waste, recycling and a kind of «anti-form».
I float the idea that folks in and around the tropics use the hashtag #ZikaDengueHotSpot
with images showing
waste piles or other untended spots creating habitat for the mosquito behind these
urban outbreaks.
«Plans call for
urban «food factories,» where organic vegetables can be grown
with hydroponic techniques, employing liquid from the city's
waste stream.
With urban growth outpacing the capacity of municipal dumps,
waste management is a major problem in Bogotá and throughout the continent.
Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates
with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented
urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation
with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30
urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation
with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and
waste management).
A problem
with airports is that they are often in
urban or suburban locations that have been built up in the past few decades, and the increase in global air travel has led to increased traffic, pavement, buildings and
waste heat, all of which are difficult to remove from the temperature record.
Wood
waste is also widely used in
urban areas for combined heat and power production,
with the heat typically used in district heating systems.
Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt
with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic
wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology,
urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.
Starting
with reduction and donation, Global Green's team is partnering
with urban planners, city agencies and community groups to evaluate how food scraps from a specific neighborhoods can be recovered most efficiently through «Distributed Food Scrap Processing Infrastructure» and increasing the use of compost and other products made from food
waste.
Its recommendations fall under four main headings:
waste management, low - carbon mobility,
urban energy infrastructure and
urban form and green spaces;
with coordination through a well - managed city - level framework being perhaps the most essential ingredient for success.
The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors
with high mitigation potential as
urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply,
waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.
Municipal authorities increasingly understand the role (intra - and peri --RRB-
urban farmers can play in environmental management (like the recycling of
urban wastes,
urban stormwater management, lowering
urban temperatures and dust, maintaining
urban biodiversity) while innovative farmers in and around cities are offering nowadays a variety of recreational services (staying on farm, horse riding, etcetera), playing a role in maintaining the cultural landscape and other services (e.g., on farm care for elderly people or
with people
with a psychological, eco-education,...) in response to the demands of citizens and city region managers.
Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project
with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and
urban wood
waste such as construction
waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood
waste from furniture manufacturing.
This is undertaken
with special attention to: i) short food chain delivery, ii)
urban water, nutrient and
waste management and recycling, iii) multifunctional land use, and iv) social innovation and institutional interaction in (intra - and peri)
urban areas.
In order to enable such a combination of functions,
urban and peri-
urban agriculture will have to adopt agro-ecological production methods, link up
with eco-sanitation and decentralised sustainable
waste management systems, as well as becoming part of the planning and management of parks, nature reserves and recreational services.
The first measure to be taken is to create mechanisms of cooperation between agriculture, health and environment /
waste management departments to assess actual health and environmental risks associated
with urban agriculture and to design effective preventive and mitigating strategies for which the participation of all these sectors is required.
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.
The RUAF Foundation organises electronic conferences in cooperation
with leading international organisations, including E-conferences on: «
Urban agriculture, nutrition and health» with UN FAO (Rome); «Integration of urban agriculture into urban land use planning» with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic wastes and wastewater» with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherla
Urban agriculture, nutrition and health»
with UN FAO (Rome); «Integration of
urban agriculture into urban land use planning» with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic wastes and wastewater» with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherla
urban agriculture into
urban land use planning» with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic wastes and wastewater» with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherla
urban land use planning»
with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic
wastes and wastewater»
with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «
Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherla
Urban aquaculture»
with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of
urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherla
urban food systems»
with Wageningen University (the Netherlands).
These have included workshops on: «Productive reuse of
urban wastes and wastewater in urban agriculture» with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in T
urban wastes and wastewater in
urban agriculture» with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in T
urban agriculture»
with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «
Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in T
Urban livestock systems»
with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for
urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in T
urban agriculture projects»
with IDRC (Canada) in Tunis.
Not only do they ensure that the materials
with which we build our cities will be healthful and beneficial, they eliminate the very concept of
waste and provide a clean, productive economic base for healthy
urban growth.
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.
The two women shared their perspective on minimizing
waste while living an ordinary,
urban life
with young children, and managing the ongoing challenges of «other people» who don't understand why it matters so much to them.
Vaute Couture just wrapped up their fall 2010 show, which featured vegan winter coats and introduced knits made from soy bean farming
waste, vegan belts made
with Ultrasuede EcoDesign and
urban snow coats, made
with alternative fiber Primaloft ECO, encased in 100 % recycled closed loop ripstop from Tejin EcoCircle, and hand quilted locally in Chicago.
But in coupling community design initiatives like Canstruction
with other food security and local
urban planning programs (like rescuing food «
waste», permablitzes, community and roof gardens), it could be a multi-pronged and creative way to tackle hunger, poverty and sustainable food issues in our cities, starting
with one can.
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.
He works at a major search engine company — assisting
with LEED certification, grey water run - off,
urban agriculture, composting and
waste management.
They also collaborate
with environmental scientists,
urban and regional planners, hazardous -
waste technicians, and other engineers, as well as
with specialists such as experts in law and business, to address environmental problems and environmental sustainability.