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They were lucky, they said, because they began to dig under an arm of the freeway that belongs to the local municipality.
But if you're throwing it in the bin, and your local landfill facility is just a normal one, then we're having what's called a double negative.
Pia and I were on the way to a local cafe and we passed a man collecting for charity.
Several years ago, I was working at the South Side Walnut Cafe, a local diner in town, and during my time there I would go through phases of militant lesbian intensity: not shaving my armpits, quoting Ani DiFranco lyrics as gospel.
And it will fundamentally transform our relationship with local travel.
In the past century, flight connected our planet, in the next, it will reconnect our local communities, and I hope it will reconnect us to each other.
Our goal is to create a global network of civic hackers who are innovating on the existing system in order to build tools that will solve entrenched problems, that will support local government, and that will empower citizens.
And local, domestic companies, in the past, have been protected from international competition by market controls.
When I met him next, he was going to put a windmill at the local school.
So we've been working for a few years with these local communities and clinicians to study what happens to the Hmong and Karen microbiomes when people move from refugee camps and villages in Thailand to the USA.
One Japanese scientist called Takuya Sato found that in one stream, these things drive so many crickets and grasshoppers into the water that the drowned insects make up some 60 percent of the diet of local trout.
That flu vaccine could even be specifically tailored to the flu strain that's circulating in that local area.
Those blue pins that drop represent elders, or local leaders, that are connected to those people who can ensure that we can find them and arrange treatment.
You know how much they spent, and they also, say, because they had to contract with the local government to get the power provided, you might know what they made a deal to buy, so you know how much power it takes.
On that day, a column of American and Afghan troops were making their way through a part of Afghanistan to help protect a group of government officials, a group of Afghan government officials, who would be meeting with some local village elders.
What we wanted to do is we wanted to make a fuel that used something that was readily available on the local level.
So after dinner, the orchestra started to play, and the guests burst into song, and all of a sudden, Taft was surprised with the presentation of a gift from a group of local supporters, and this was a stuffed opossum toy, all beady-eyed and bald-eared, and it was a new product they were putting forward to be the William Taft presidency's answer to Teddy Roosevelt's teddy bear.
And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a community achievement award.
I had done some activism in college, so I decided to help a local group hang door knockers against animal testing.
If you are scared by global warming, wait until we learn about local warming.
We will talk today about local warming.
This is the issue of local warming.
He established consistent taxation for all provinces, ending private exploitation by local tax officials.
There's an entire industry just next to Agbogbloshie making locally fabricated welding machines that power local fabrication.
We prototyped the makerspace kiosk in Agbogbloshie, conceived as the opposite of a school: a portal into experiential and experimental making that connects local and global and connects making with remaking and unmaking.
And then the Internet happened, and the world became extremely complex, extremely low-cost, extremely fast, and those Newtonian laws that we so dearly cherished turned out to be just local ordinances, and what we found was that in this completely unpredictable world that most of the people who were surviving were working with sort of a different set of principles, and I want to talk a little bit about that.
It was a season as described by a local paper when every Tuesday a scholar fell to the bullets of fundamentalist assassins.
Or at a more local level, does an integrated group like the audience at a TED conference, are we right now having a collective TED consciousness, an inner movie for this collective TED group which is distinct from the inner movies of each of our parts?
Kerabai has become a local celebrity.
We live in a time right now where in spite of globalization or perhaps because of globalization, all citizenship is ever more resonantly, powerfully local.
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