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2 unusual facts about environment


Environment, health and safety

This worldwide voluntary initiative called “Responsible Care” is in place in about 50 countries and centrally coordinated by the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA).

Khadak Malegaon

By constant efforts of administrative body(Grampanchayat) and dedication of people, Khadak Malegaon won the "Paryavaran Vikasratna Puraskar" in 2011, a Award offered by Government for development of Environment to the local bodies.


2010 Central Canada earthquake

This earthquake occurred as Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice was conducting an interview in Ottawa, and he reported that his chair started to move.

Big Green Gathering

In 2005 the event featured former Environment Minister Michael Meacher, Bruce Kent from CND and Tony Juniper from Friends of the Earth.

Brad Childress

The owner Zygi Wilf was cited as saying, “Brad has done a tremendous job leading this football team and we value the positive environment he has created for the Minnesota Vikings on and off the field, He has continued to positively impact this team and create a strong foundation for future success.

Brendan Brazier

Making stops at 21 universities, it featured David Suzuki, Stephen Lewis, and Maude Barlow who spoke about general environmental issues, while Brazier spoke of the significant raw food production has on the environment.

Charles Schnetzler

Schnetzler is best known for analyzing moon rocks brought back by the Apollo program and for studying the Earth's environment using the Landsat and the Earth Observing System.

Daniel C. Esty

He is a frequent commentator on NPR and has appeared on national TV talk shows such as The Colbert Report, The O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck, to speak on issues of business innovation and the environment.

DoJa

DoJa profile is a Java application environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone.

Donald Stoltenberg

In 1975 he authored two educational texts, Collagraph Printmaking and The Artist and the Built Environment, both published by Davis Publications of Worcester, Massachusetts.

El Naddaha

It is quite popular in the Nile Delta, the northern agricultural-based area of Egypt, typically north to Cairo, where the Nile constitutes a main part of the environment.

Elliptical trainer

Some manufacturers produce durable commercial models with extensive programs and made to withstand frequent use in a fitness club environment, at prices typically in excess of US$4,000.

Energy in Austria

According to Austrian Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich Austria has a target of 34% renewable energy by 2020 and 100% self-sufficiency in energy by 2050.

Fossil Downs Station

The return of Mulla Mulla in feed with its high protein content is good for cattle and also good for the environment with its ability to stabilize soil.

Frank Melli

In the words of Barbara Pyle: “If we are going to save the environment, it’s not going to come from any one big decision, but from many individual choices – choices by people like you and I. The media has a responsibility to educate and help people make these choices.”

Gary Reams

He debated Democrat Tim Kaine on public television, persistently linking every question to the marijuana issue, which he regarded as relevant to all other political issues, including taxes, law enforcement, the environment, foreign policy, and public safety.

Halda

Therefore, in developing the first modern Halda-watch, the company worked with the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang who tested the watch in the most extreme environment—on his latest space mission, STS-128.

Hotel Hollywood

These rumors were started by Param Gill in his efforts to provide a spooky environment for the actors to enhance their performance.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

Internet in South Korea

The ex-CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, made a negative remark on the South Korean internet environment for falling "a little bit behind" due to governmental regulations during a conference with Choi See-Joong, chairman of Korea Communications Commission, and President Park Geun hye

Island effect

Urban heat island, also known as the Heat island effect, in which metropolitan areas are warmer than the surrounding environment

Jalari in corto

The film international festival, Jalari in Corto, was born in the summer of 2004 from an idea of the youth of the Cultural Environment Ethnographic "Jalari" Andrea and Italian, in order to promote, raise awareness and bring the art of cinema and in general the communicative power of artistic expression with as many people as possible through short films and meetings with authors, actors and critics.

Joaquín Sorolla

Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window.

Job evaluation

ICICI, Procter & Gamble, Infosys, Bharat Petroleum, Asian Paints, HLL and Hughes Software have certain things in common: greater opportunities to grow vertically, open communication, flexible working hours, excellent reward schemes, employee-oriented work environment, sharing with and learning from others etc.

Joe McCord

He was vice chair of the Wildlife Subcommittee and a member of the Commerce Committee, the Conservation and Environment Committee, the Ethics Committee, the Environment Subcommittee, and the Industrial Impact Subcommittee.

John Paul Woodley, Jr.

In October 2001, President of the United States George W. Bush named Woodley Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environment).

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

The restaurant was redesigned by Robin De Groot for the television program Restaurant Makeover, completely transforming the environment and menu to the delight of Niagara Falls.

Kretschmarr Cave mold beetle

One of these studies was conducted be the Texas department of transportation that studied the karst environment along highway 45 in Texas.

Louise von Gall

In September 1852 the family moved to Sassenberg in Warendorf, where Louise Schücking felt alien and unhappy, as a Protestant in a strict Catholic environment.

Mass

It is even more dramatic when done in an environment that naturally has a vacuum, as David Scott did on the surface of the Moon during Apollo 15.

Mathilde Grooss Viddal

The collaboration was formed in 2004 by the name Chateau Neuf Friensemble, with a history from the 1960s University Big Band and the musical environment surrounding the Department of Musicology at University of Oslo.

MeteoGalicia

It was founded in 2000 following an agreement between the then Ministry of the Environment - now known as the Ministry of the Environment, Territory and Infrastructures - and the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Michael A. Ramos

San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, offers this unique three day camp that provides a relaxed, supportive and safe environment for children to enjoy the typical activities of a summer camp, as well as to have opportunities to work with professionals to share their feelings related to their loss, learn new ways to cope, and interact with other children and teens in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.

Milieu

Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Mission-type tactics

Excellence in this case is derived in part from the tradition of Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Carl von Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke and was based upon the premise that hard-and-fast rules had no place in the environment of war, which was the realm of human emotion, friction, chance and uncertainty.

Pacific Environment

That same year, Pacific Environment worked with the Udege people in the Russian Far East to protect the three-million-acre (1.2-million-hectare) upper Bikin Watershed against logging by the Hyundai Corporation.

Personal air vehicle

The European Union is funding a 3-leg 4.2m programme (under the Seventh Framework Programme) to study technologies and impacts for PAVs in a Personal Air Transport System; Human-aircraft interaction, Automation of aerial systems in cluttered environments, and Exploring the socio-technological environment.

Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

Quade Cooper

In September, Cooper tweeted infamous comments regarding his thoughts on the Wallabies set-up, which included criticising the defensive style-of-play and lack of player input under coach Robbie Deans, inadequate training and recovery facilities, and a "toxic environment".

Rolph Payet

Rolph Payet FRGS is an international policy expert, researcher and speaker on environment, climate and island issues, and was the first President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles.

Schiermonnikoog

Due to environment and health concerns, since 2013 six Chinese electric buses BYD ebus (range of about 250 km) are the only buses on the island for at least the 15 year contract period (BYD won the contract, beating its European opponents).

Simón de Roxas Clemente y Rubio

For almost two years he travelled about the Granada, Jeréz de la Frontera and Sanlúcar areas collecting samples of wild and cultivated plants, observing agricultural practices, noting soil characteristics, micro-climates, and the adaptation of the flora to their natural environment.

Sino-Forest Corporation

Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment (ARCPE) officially opened on 22 June 2009 at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Sun Open Storage

Core features provided by Solaris include the operating environment, the ZFS file-system, an analytics tool based on Dtrace, the Network File System (NFS) and CIFS protocol interfaces and other core features.

Sutton Bingham Reservoir

It now provides an environment for overwintering wildfowl and migrant birds including the Osprey.

Thermal manikin

Thermal manikins are primarily used in automotive, indoor environment, outdoor environment, military and clothing research.

Trichuris muris

After establishing their place in the intestinal wall, the adult worms mate and release unembryonated eggs into the environment via the feces.

Tunnels of Gibraltar

The formation appears to have been laid down in a tropical environment somewhat similar to the Bahamas today, and on the basis of fossil evidence an Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) age has been proposed for the Gibraltar Limestone, though in appearance it has a strong resemblance to the Carboniferous Limestone that underlies large parts of England and Wales.

Tyalgum, New South Wales

Another major natural feature is the valley environment around the village created by the Border Ranges and Mount Warning.

Web science

An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist Ben Shneiderman: "Web Science" is a term that refers to processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.

William Colglazier

From 1983 to 1991, he was Professor of Physics and Director of the Energy, Environment, and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee where he worked closely with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Xubuntu

Xfce originally was an abbreviation for XForms Common Environment; ubuntu has a meaning of approximately "humanity towards others" in various Bantu languages.


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