To some, the project's social benefits are as appealing as its ecological mission.
Each year he enlists scores of his famous friends to assist in the ecological mission: this year, Ani DiFranco; Béla Fleck; Arlo Guthrie & the Guthrie Family; Martin Sexton Joan Osbornee & the Holmes Brothers; Deer Tick; the Punch Brothers with Chris Thile Josh Ritterr and the Royal City Band; and Dawes will perform alongside bountiful artisan food and earth-friendly craft vendors.
After beefing up the lineup last year in the name of his ecological mission, Mr. Seeger himself leads a star-packed folk and pop lineup that also boasts Lorre Wyatt, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins, Mavis Staples, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Patterson Hood.
In keeping with its ecological theme, the hotel's mission statement supporting the area's environment offers guests a "certificate of excellence" if they catch and release their big-game fish.
POCANTICO HILLS - ALTHOUGH it may be most familiar to Westchester residents as the bucolic setting for the Blue Hill at Stone Barns restaurant, which features local ingredients, the nonprofit Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture was set up with a largely educational mission: to promote ecological farming.
And Kornfeldt's account of seeing one of the last living northern white rhinoceroses an elderly female called Nola, lumbering around her zoo enclosure, rotund and majestic frames de-extinction as not just an ecological service but a rescue mission for individual creatures.
Along with its sci-fi name, Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits that vacant lots might provide and to redefine the land, from neighborhood blight to community asset.
SpaceX's cargo for this one is easily among the most fun things ever put into space, and it's both symbolic of how this helps Musk achieve his larger mission of reducing human ecological footprint on earth, while simultaneously making sure we can spread our wings and become a truly interplanetary species when the time comes, too.
They hoped Chicago would make ecological concerns more central to its scholarly mission and daily campus life.
Another purpose of the mission was to analyze the ecological state of the planet and to take measurements of pollution caused by carbon monoxide.
