Sentences with phrase «with environmental goals»

Creation of a suggested standard methodology for the use of reporting technology and program citizen «ambassadors» in food waste measurement that is compatible with environmental goals and the operational needs of property managers.

Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?

The one day initiative fits with Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food Strategy.

So with the environmental goal to reduce carbon output but the ususal business goal geared toward faster, faster, faster, would this hold from a business perspective since it's always about profit?

Not exact matches

The B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise defines it broadly as «revenue - generating businesses with a twist,» that twist being that the social enterprise has two parallel goals — to earn revenue, but just as important, to achieve positive social, cultural or environmental outcomes.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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Every book Ive ever done has had that goal in mind — and with this new book, the environmental and social change aspects are a lot more open and direct.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

Another current trend among restaurants is environmental sustainability — a goal that fits perfectly with restaurant farming.

With those goals in mind, we decided to host a startup competition to allow entrepreneurs to champion our environmental business ideas or their own.

This runs monthly events with the goal of exploring all the areas of business activity in which tech entrepreneurship can solve big social and environmental problems.

PNC's focus on operating with integrity drives the company to help customers achieve their goals while also strengthening its communities, reducing its environmental impact and empowering employees to grow.

This goal has already had a positive impact on the company's bottom line, with an estimated $ 541 million in savings (its environmental record is also impressive — see its 2014 sustainability report here).

Our Environmental Policy commits us to continuous efforts to improve environmental performance and requires our facilities to be designed, operated, and managed with the goal of preventing incidents and reducing adverse impacts, including impacts associated with the development of unconventionalEnvironmental Policy commits us to continuous efforts to improve environmental performance and requires our facilities to be designed, operated, and managed with the goal of preventing incidents and reducing adverse impacts, including impacts associated with the development of unconventionalenvironmental performance and requires our facilities to be designed, operated, and managed with the goal of preventing incidents and reducing adverse impacts, including impacts associated with the development of unconventional natural gas.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

Dedicated to growing wine naturally, the winery introduced its natural farming and conservation program with goals of worker health, environmental protection and enhanced grape quality.

The company's goal is to significantly reduce its environmental impact with specific measures in the following key areas.

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

Our goal is to provide tasty meals made with the best and freshest of local ingredients in accordance with the principles of good health and environmental responsibility.

«Based on these production issues and our goal to redesign and relaunch all of our packaging in a sustainable manner, with product protection and environmental concerns in mind, we decided on the new MasterBag Pyramid format and a high - barrier, paper - based outer packaging, following a lengthy development and testing phase,» confirms Thomas Holz, Managing Director and Tea Taster at TeeGschwendner.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming environmental crisis.

Family - owned spirits company unveils ambitious environmental initiative called «Good Spirited» with specific goals in sourcing, packaging and operations by 2022.

With those caveats in mind, Starbucks CAFÉ Practices environmental criteria are most comparable to those of the current Rainforest Alliance certification requirements in terms of their scope and goals.

«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.»

While retail giants are not popularly associated with sustainable development, UK - based Marks & Spencer and Tesco, and US giant Walmart, have made progress in meeting ambitious environmental and social goals throughout their supply chains.1

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.

These groups were less concerned about market fluctuations and more concerned with issues of social equity, environmental health and having fun, which meant they unwittingly epitomised the goals of political ecology, by challenging the dominant agricultural methods of production and marketing.

FSA's MSC certification aligns with the distributor's broad sustainability goals and programs, which enable buyers to choose high - quality food products while providing a positive environmental impact.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

With our children's futures in mind, it is our goal as a company to continually strive to achieve social responsibility, ethical standards and environmental sustainability.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

One of my goals with the Eco-Summer Blog Party was to provide you with valuable information on some hot environmental topics each day.

The first goal of this environmental movement is to restore trees in the Atlantic Rainforest, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

Our team at the Nature Museum is continually evaluating and extending our reach and offerings with a goal of getting deeper into more Chicago neighborhoods, especially those with diverse populations whose access to nature and environmental education may be limited.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

It is important to note that the programmes are consistent with the social, economic and environmental development goals of the SDGs.

State environmental officials in a letter to the EPA released Wednesday outlined what they said were «significant issues» with declaring the project complete, including unfinished remediation goals.

As the state's environmental watchdog, the DEC will be responsible for approving or denying this project based on a variety of factors, including whether New York can meet its climate goals with the ongoing development of a fossil fuel infrastructure.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environEnvironmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmentalenvironmental goals.

A mayoral spokeswoman said de Blasio would work with the council to reduce plastic - bag waste as part of the city's environmental goals but declined to weigh in on the proposal.

Her interests span from microbiology to macro-scale ecosystem modeling, with a goal of reducing human's environmental impact.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

The outcomes of this work open new avenues of research with the goal of elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying asthma in relationship with environmental exposures and to promote the development of new therapies.

«If we've found the magic juice,» explained Bruce Hendee, who bears the title of Fort Collins» chief sustainability officer, it has been connecting the city's biggest employer, Colorado State University, along with the business community — a growing assortment of companies including 10 breweries — to a community action plan that focuses on people, aggressive environmental goals and profit.

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.

The group formed with the goal of not only understanding Katrina's social and environmental impact but also of publicizing the risk around the world to low - lying urban communities.

We find that this comprehensive approach lowers the cost of meeting environmental goals but also carries with it profound implications for agriculture: Unmanaged ecosystems and forests expand, and food crop and livestock prices rise.

«We are hopeful that by understanding the core relationships between land productivity and biodiversity, we can then refine management recommendations for land users with the goal of enhancing both economic and environmental outcomes.»