Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Last but not least, gas power plants and related infrastructure threaten the health and wellbeing of the residents of the communities where they are sited. Disadvantaged folks are still stuck in fenceline communities. It’s a community that is already burdened by significant industrial pollution. VY: That’s right.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It also calls for involving local communities, including Indigenous peoples and traditional owners, in site governance to help strengthen climate responses locally. Crucially, the new policy recognizes the vital importance of integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge in management plans as a proven strategy for increasing resilience.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

While this sprawling infrastructure currently plays a large role in keeping the power grid humming, it is also inextricably linked to disproportionate harms on communities of color and low-income communities. And all this polluting infrastructure has serious health and environmental implications for the surrounding communities.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. Their culture of collective work and kinship networks are deeply tied to their ability to work the land. The water situation is dire.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The TPNW is a broad coalition of nation states committed to building that framework through changing attitudes toward and the culture around nuclear weapons; currently, there are 93 signatories and 69 states parties. The TPNW should act as both a forum and a tool for those countries and communities who have been harmed.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

But surprisingly, its community solar programs (not to be confused with community choice aggregation ) haven’t been able to gain traction. Out of the 5,700 megawatts of installed community solar in the country, less than 1% of that is in California. Why build community solar?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

The lack of nourishing food for my community, increased access to nutritional information, and access to land are the main reasons I personally wanted to start farming. Every sector of agriculture has been purposefully constructed to exclude and silence communities of color. However, the land I am farming on is not climate-stable.

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JUNE 28, 2021

For the Anishinaabe who live in northern Minnesota, Line 3 is a cultural and ecological transgression. Their cultural existence here, and subsistence, is founded upon it. They say an oil spill would threaten the health of wild rice, a crop that grows in watersheds the pipeline would cross.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023

The Nation also maintains a Cultural and Learning Center in Easton, Pennsylvania. While many Lenape were forced to migrate west in the 1700s after the death of William Penn, some descendants remained behind in Pennsylvania and retained the culture and tradition passed down from Lenape elders here in our Commonwealth.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On June 23, Compass Education will host an in-person workshop at the Revolution School in Philadelphia on building a culture of sustainability in the K-12 classroom. Are you looking to build a culture of sustainability in your school? Do you want to integrate systems thinking into your community through accessible and adaptable tools?

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APRIL 1, 2024

The program, now in its third year, builds community stewards and civic leaders by empowering young Pennsylvanians to become ambassadors in their community for a shared vision of a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania. Deadline to apply June 10. Pennsylvania needs leaders.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 11, 2021

A rural Canadian community could receive clean tap water for the first time in more than two decades. An Indigenous community in Bolivia struggles to survive as the country’s second-largest lake runs completely dry. Now, without lake water for farming, many have left the community. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. ON THE RADAR.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

Remake Learning Days is a global learning festival that brings children, families, community cultural centers, and educators together to share the benefits of collaborative, hands-on learning. Learn more about individual Remake Learning Day events on DCNR’s website or for community efforts , visit Remake Learning Days.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Marco Hatch Marco Hatch, a Samish Indian Nation member, scientist, and board trustee for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington, admires the resilience and cultural significance of clams and other tidal species. By reactivating and reconnecting with clam gardens, First Nations communities assert self-determination and food sovereignty.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2023

One of the initiatives Stroud has undertaken over the last two years is building bonds with Indigenous communities to assist them with freshwater science and education as well as learning how we can all be better stewards of water and earth. This land, he says, is intended to be an edible forest garden for the Lenape community.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Diane Husic who will speak on the topic of "Budburst, Bird Migrations, Bloom Times and Bug Hatches - their Times They Are Changin' For centuries, seasonal activities of animals and plants have been monitored for cultural purposes and celebrations, by farmers and gardeners to determine planting and harvesting times, and by naturalists.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

For example: increasing water supply reliability, enhancing wildlife habitat, or meeting community energy needs. It establishes the empirical and conceptual underpinnings for beginning to change the culture and behavior of both wastewater utilities and regulators to support more widespread and effective innovation.

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Cool Green Science

APRIL 16, 2023

Changing cultural perceptions around gender can’t work without the support of the local communities. The post Women Lead Leatherback Conservation in the Solomon Islands appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

It garnered praise for raising environmental awareness , sensitizing the next generation , showcasing marginalized communities , preserving endangered cultures , and safeguarding wildlife. Allocating a percentage of ecotourism revenue to conservation and CIFs can ensure improved and enthusiastic community participation.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

In my community, we view the river as a mother, having personhood, a living entity. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It Photo © Pat Smith, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Prioritization of employee well-being not only fosters a more positive work environment for current employees, but can also attract prospective employees. Company Culture A positive company culture is cultivated through a collective effort aimed at valuing and implementing social strategies.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Stinson is a cultural anthropologist who studies digitalization, datafication, and automation within conservation, with a special focus on digital surveillance and smart technologies. One strategy for involving communities directly in protected area management has been through forms of what Stinson calls, “intimate governance.”

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APRIL 17, 2024

Canada must ensure all PFAS are included in the class and comprehensively regulated—without it, Canada will continue to be a dumping ground for unregulated chemicals, and our communities, workers and healthcare system will pay the price.” Firefighters choose to risk their lives every day to protect our communities. Enough is enough.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Grants are available on a competitive basis for projects that implement the PA Water Trail Program’s eight guiding principles: Partnership, Stewardship, Volunteerism, Education, Conservation, Community Vitality, Diversity, Wellness and Well-being. PEC has administered the PA Water Trail Mini-Grant program since 2017. Follow them on Facebook.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 4, 2023

It must act to stop projects like Highway 413 that threaten our wallets, communities and future,” said Tim Gray. The highway would enable and encourage expensive sprawl and make impossible the development of Brampton’s Heritage Heights , a transit-oriented, more affordable community.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Anya Blaney  © Lylianna Allala Lylianna Allala, Climate Justice Director for the City of Seattle, discusses the connection between nature and culture, her work to address environmental inequities, and her vision for a future where marginalized communities can thrive in the face of climate change. © Lylianna Allala In 2017, U.S.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Frontiers has won the Best Culture of Learning category at the 2021 LinkedIn Talent Awards. To learn more about Frontiers’ culture and explore current job openings, please visit [link]. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the?solutions ABOUT FRONTIERS.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

So, I went to law school thinking that I was going to champion this issue of Black women’s health outcomes in the United States, but when I got to law school there was a very big culture shock. The founders of the Federation were involved in the civil rights movement in their communities and the Black cooperative development movements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Havidán Rodriguez , stated that, “higher education can and should play a critical role in enhancing our understanding of disaster vulnerability, resiliency, mitigation, response, and recovery, and how to address these issues in order to mitigate the impacts of these events on communities across the world.”

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Each year, PASA Sustainable Agriculture honors farmer, community, and business leaders who serve as examples for advancing sustainable agriculture through innovation and collaboration. Click Here to sign up for regular updates. Click Here to become a member. Posted: February 2, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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APRIL 19, 2023

In the last part of this two-part article series, we examined how white culture and white privilege impact the ways in which we engage with communities around sustainability.

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MARCH 12, 2024

EN: Our car-dependent culture does more than threaten public health and the environment. and Pittsburgh , for example, started increasing off-peak hour service to accommodate more flexible travel patterns and expanded service for low-income neighborhoods and communities of color where many residents do not own cars.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The Center for Culture and Community, a research project by network of architecture (noa*), stands as a model for any community building anywhere in the world. Noa* worked with a philosophy that a community center should meet the needs of all members of the neighborhood.

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Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute will host another in its series of EarthTalks January 22 on Building SURE (Sustainable And Resilient) Communities starting at 4:00 p.m. They significantly impact resource consumption, environmental sustainability and the well-being of individuals and communities.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Nearby lodging would house research partners on site during field schools and long-term projects, encouraging deeper engagement with the village, its visitors, and its surrounding communities and landscapes. The lodging will also prototype a new revenue model for the village that could be replicated in additional historic homes.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Assistant Administrator Fox made the announcement at Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities, which was co-hosted by the White House and National … Continue reading EPA announces inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2024

The highway would enable and encourage expensive sprawl and make impossible the development of Brampton’s Heritage Heights , a transit-oriented, more affordable community. Highway 413 would pave over 400 acres of the Greenbelt, and over 2,000 acres of Class 1 and Class 2 farmland – Ontario’s most productive farmland.

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