Entrepreneurs that join our network measure their success both in financial returns and their impact on society and/or the environment. These companies will have been designed to solve a particular social or environmental problem. Ideally, a company's mission will be reflected in it's internal as well as external business practices.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.” Often low income communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution.

The term core schemas is used [by TOYS] to mean the set of schemas being captured, compared or synchronized. Often, tables in the core schemas have foreign keys that reference external schema [i.e. schema that are not in the core schemas]. Additionally, external schemas may reference tables in the core schemas. These are refered to [in the TOYS documentation] as outward references and inward references respectively. Where cyclic references exist [e.g.

In our mission to achieve sustainable growth, decreasing the environmental footprint along the value chains in which we operate is the balance to increasing shareholder and societal value. We will achieve sustainable growth through three strategies: 1) Integrated Science, 2) Knowledge Intensity, and 3) Productivity/Six Sigma.

From Spring 2003 through Fall 2007, Better World Books has collected more than 10 million books, raising more than $2.3 million for over 80 literacy and education non-profit organizations, sending over 570,500 books to our partner programs & saving over 5,250 tons of books from landfills. Please visit our Impact page for more details.

We support locally-owned businesses. Only locally-owned businesses may participate on our website, and we dedicate 10% of profits to promoting buying locally. We pay our salespeople commissions out of one-time set-up fees for our Storefront and Premium Storefront products. "Net revenue" is defined as the revenue we generate after we pay these set-up fee commissions to our salespeople.

The term social maladjustment refers to the consistent inability to conform to the standards for behavior established by a school. Such behavior is seriously disruptive to the education of the student and/or other students and is not due to emotional disturbance.

Reuters reported that big icebergs were coming off the Antarctic continent. The reports said that there were several factors contributing to this, among them, global warming. They ALWAYS say global warming, but never indicate what other factors may be involved. The Reuters report of the new iceberg was incorrectly linked to global warming. This is actually a naturally occurring event that is overdue to take place.

We appreciate that travel is inherently unecological, but it brings many benefits to traveller and host alike, and has been a force for positive change in many poor societies. We can make a positive difference by choosing accommodation which has a low environmental impact (e.g. waste water recycling, solar power, natural building materials) and a responsible social policy (e.g. reinvesting the profit in the community, employing local staff - and not just at a menial level).

You support sustainable tourism when choosing a Canadian Rockies vacation from Good Earth. One percent (1%) of all revenue goes to supporting local social and environmental programs in the regions that you visit. Click here to learn more about our Good For The Earth Program?. Couples | Families | Friends | Private Groups | Places & Activities | Find a Trip | About Good Earth | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Site Map

The social worker interviews the child and family to evaluate the situation. The worker, whose primary responsibility is the PROTECTION OF THE CHILD, may offer services to help reduce the problems of the family and child. These include: temporary in-home caretaker to help parents and children The social worker's activities are designed to protect children and enable families to stay together whenever possible.

Yes. The house elects a social events coordinator who is responsible for planning social activities for the house. The house organizes several parties throughout the year. It also sponsors the annual Laurel House Birthday Party in October each year which has traditionally included a catered dinner followed by dessert, coffee, and dancing. Please see the Laurel House Virtual Tour for pictures and more information about these events. Yes.

Environmental hypnosis is the process of being hypnotized by the environment like driving your car and day dreaming you are hypnotized. When you learned how to drive a car, the pattern of driving got accepted and recorded into your subconscious mind and when you daydream and drive, your subconscious mind is doing the driving for you. At that time, your subconscious is working for you. Watching a movie we become hypnotized into the movie and feel the effects of the movie.

Zeolites are formed in areas where there was volcanic activity several thousand years ago. The zeolite used in liquid zeolite is hand-mined, causing no damage to the surrounding environment. The zeolite is micronized at the mine site (pulverized to a fine powder and filtered through a fine mesh screen), then placed in barrels and transported to the manufacturer.

Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, culture, education, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

The CORE workout is delivered through a series of exercise machines specifically designed to target, isolate, and strengthen spinal muscle groups, and to promote and improve flexibility. PNBC’s customized CORE program will utilize specialized equipment that provides strengthening for the low back (lumbar machine), torso (torso rotation machine) and cervical spine (4-way neck machine).

North East Ohio Health Services is committed, in a spirit of partnership, to enhancing individual and community health through the delivery of a comprehensive, cost effective, integrated system of behavioral health care that promotes, in a culturally competent manner, wellness, healing and quality of life.

In our mission to acheive sustainable growth, decreasing the environmental footprint along the value chains in which we operate is the balance to increasing societal value. For more on our societal and environmental initiatives, see Social Commitment.

Companies have both moral and financial reasons to practice CSR. The moral ones tend to be quite clear, while the financial ones are still more difficult to measure. They are usually referred to as the "business case for CSR". The business case for CSR argues that a responsible attitude toward society and the environment can make a business more competitive, more resilient to shocks, and more likely to attract and hold both consumers and the best employees.

To ensure that we minimize the social and environmental impact of our worldwide supply chain practices, we have: adopted the use of the new Electronic Industry Code of Conduct, which formalizes HP's supplier labor, human rights, health, safety, environmental and ethical expectations reemphasized HP's requirement for conformance with the product content restrictions covered in HP's General Specification for the Environment (GSE) expanded performance results of supply chain SER conformance in HP's.

Social supports refers to all people and services who are available to the student and engaged by the student to help with the difficulties the student is experiencing. This most often includes family, friends, significant relationships, faculty advisors, Housemasters, GRTs, mental health professionals, and clergy. There are many ways that medical and psychiatric hospitalizations are similar. The purpose of both is to provide more intensive treatment and monitoring than can be provided at home.

The Center recommends a comprehensive approach to alcohol and other drug prevention that includes educational strategies such as curriculum infusion. Other elements of environmental management include promoting alcohol-free options, creating an environment that promotes healthy social norms, limiting alcohol availability, restricting marketing and promotion of alcoholic beverages, and enforcing policy and laws.

The nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI extend to all programs and activities of state departments of transportation, their contractors and others. Therefore, environmental justice requirements apply to all state projects - those that involve federal funds and those that do not. The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued the DOT Order on Environmental Justice (5610.

Sounds like something on your system is misconfigured. Everytime I've had reports like this (works as root, not as user), it's turned out to be /tmp was unwriteable or something equally improbable. The easiest way to find out is to use the debugger and tell me where Expect is dumping core. (If you don't understand this statement, ask a local C or C++ programmer.) an aside, you should be using the most recent version of Expect (currently 5.22.1). But I don't know of any problems in 5.

Dublin Core aims to be an easy-to-create and maintain descriptive format to facilitate cross-domain resource discovery on the Web. "Qualified Dublin Core" supports the use of DC elements as the basis for extended but simple statements about resources, rather than as a foundation for more descriptive clauses. Complex descriptions may be necessary for some Web resources and for some purposes, such as administration, preservation, and reference linking.

The Kepler Mission contributes in several ways to both the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) mission: The Kepler Mission determines the frequency of terrestrial and smaller planets in a larger volume of our Galaxy then available to either SIM or TPF and thereby determines the expected number of planets that either SIM or TPF might observe.

Gracepoint's mission statement and core values can be found here. Being part of the Southern Baptist Convention, Gracepoint adopts the Baptist faith and message.

Adult Guardianship Services enhances the quality of life of indigent, incompetent adults in Cuyahoga County by providing legal guardians to serve as concerned, caring advocates and surrogate decision-makers. The following are our core values: advocacy, volunteerism, justice, integrity, dignity, compassion, collaboration, and shalom.

Outreach activities apply “research based” expertise to identify problems and apply solutions to people in society or the State. These are derived from research based activity. Outreach activities could include: