In a guest post on Dot Earth, three students at the New York Harbor School focus on living infrastructure — oyster reefs — as one way to blunt storm surges.
More than just a simple building, the Waterbank School is a living infrastructure that harvests rainwater – 360,000 litres over the course of two rainy seasons – as well as being an education centre.
Active living infrastructure in Winnipeg encourages bicycling through the inclusion of bike lanes and sharrows.
Fig. 4 Live infrastructure.
I suppose you can explain Games for Windows Live's presence by the fact that, well, the game already had the Xbox Live infrastructure built into it, so why not transfer all of that into the PC space?
However, if such an alien tree stand grows inside the riparian zone or on the banks of a river, then the first priority would be the safety and security of the river in terms of people's lives, infrastructure (bridges, pipelines, water pumps, etc)., and ecotourism activities on and along the river.
Arab wealth, which is increasing dramatically because of skyrocketing oil prices, is not used to improve the lives, infrastructure and economy of the people of the West Bank and Gaza.
In June, tens of thousands of people joined street protests that were prompted by an increase in public-transit fares but quickly became a way for Brazilians to air broader grievances about the rising cost of living, weak infrastructure, political corruption and government spending on big sporting events like the 2014 World Cup.
Europe is still the rational next market for most U.S. rocket ships who are looking to find customers with above-average incomes and access to credit cards who live on infrastructure you can deliver your products and services to.
The country's rising cost of living, deteriorating infrastructure and lack of government services have left some residents unhappy.
The probability of home birth increases: if an adequate health facility is far away from where women live, if infrastructure for transport is lacking, and if the community is poor.
