Our Time has launched a campaign at OneMillionNewJobs.org calling on the presidential candidates to support a measure creating 1 million service positions in areas of national need, such as poverty relief, the environment and technology.
Our Time, a national advocacy group for young people, and ServeNext, a grassroots service advocacy organization, have launched a campaign at OneMillionNewJobs.org calling on the presidential candidates to support a measure creating 1 million service positions in areas of national need, such as poverty relief, the environment and technology.
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
Promise The Millennium Development Goals have linked progress on education, health, poverty relief and the environment with girls' right to equality in schooling.
Likewise, it has positive impact on economic relief and to the environment as well.
Just as mistaken green policies can damage the poor, mistaken poverty relief policies can damage the environment.
At launch, the startup's mutual funds focus on four areas: Poverty relief, water, education and the environment.
In what has become a growing challenge for all major meetings of world leaders, an estimated 100,000 protesters also are expected to descend on Genoa to demonstrate on issues ranging from globalization and debt relief to AIDS and the environment.
During the concert tour, Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars promoted greener touring practices and worked with Music for Relief, a non-profit organization to support disaster relief and programs to protect the environment.
Think of it as a campaign brochure, complete with glossy pictures of the president bringing relief to the elderly, restoring the environment and exhorting the young.
Organized by the Surfers Environmental Alliancee in Long Branch, N.J., the 25-mile event is the seventh annual paddleboarding competition around Manhattan and is intended to raise money for charities focused on autism, the environment and relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
