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It offers a new vision for young black girls around the world that we deserve to be fought for, that we deserve to call on local governments to show up for us.
The goal, of course, is to persuade climbers to clean up after themselves, so maybe local not-for-profits will pay climbers who bring down extra waste, or expeditions might organize voluntary cleanup trips.
We know that there are two kinds of looting going on: looting by criminal elements like ISIL, and then more local looting by those that are desperate for money.
We would all do the same to feed our families; I don't blame the local looters.
So I had an idea, which was to think about this same sort of approach but to think about it in a very local sense.
Is this a local?
If we reframe the questions and say, how well do you know your local area, would your answers be any more accurate?
You put in a post code and then it will ask you questions based on census data for your local area.
But that's what local governments across the country are doing to people who are poor.
I heard many stories like this and they shouldn't have surprised me, because suicide is the single leading cause of death in our local jails.
And this isn't anomalous, either: thirty percent of women in our local jails have serious mental health needs just like hers, but only one in six receives any mental health care while in jail.
Her clients, most of whom are black, Haitian and Latina, deliver at the local hospital.
When it comes to foreign news, the way we can fix that is by working with more local journalists, treating them like our partners and collaborators, not just fixers who fetch us phone numbers and sound bites.
Our local reporters in Syria and across Africa and across Asia bring us stories that we certainly would not have found on our own.
Or this one from Sierra Leone, about a local chief who curbed the spread of Ebola by self-organizing a quarantine in his district.
Our local journalists are our mentors.
Now in this movie, that his client had written, Leo would play an oil industry lobbyist whose girlfriend, a local meteorologist, threatens to leave him because his work contributes to global warming.
YNH: Yeah, the old 20th-century political model of left versus right is now largely irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local.
Build more on this idea of it being compatible with local identity, local communities.
And at the same time, biology tells us about Homo sapiens that we are social animals, but that we are social on a very, very local level.
The size of the natural group, the natural community of Homo sapiens, is not more than 150 individuals, and everything beyond that is really based on all kinds of imaginary stories and large-scale institutions, and I think that we can find a way, again, based on a biological understanding of our species, to weave the two together and to understand that today in the 21st century, we need both the global level and the local community.
The organizers decided to take participants on a tour of local start-ups.
In America, our death traditions have come to be chemical embalming, followed by burial at your local cemetery, or, more recently, cremation.
Observability has been used to do things like get people to donate blood more frequently by listing the names of donors on local newsletters, or to pay their taxes on time by listing the names of delinquents on a public website.
A few years ago, researchers in San Diego teamed up with a local chapter from the Salvation Army to try to find ways to increase donations.
I started my trail of gratitude by thanking the barista at my local coffee shop, Joe Coffee in New York.
And Ed is the one who chooses which coffee they serve at my local coffee shop.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
They did so not just in collaboration with national and local governments but also with a television company and with a major multinational soda company.
By increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages made from scarce local water supplies and drunk out of plastic bottles in a country that is already grappling with obesity, this is neither sustainable from a public health nor an environmental point of view.
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