We also partner with the New York Restoration Project, the effort spearheaded by Bette Midler to clean up city parks, and plant one million trees.
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"We are not here just to penalise the offenders but also to create an awareness to keep the city clean, " he said.
Paris employs a huge work force to keep the city clean and its use of golf cart-like vehicles to vacuum dog droppings has received admiring -- and sometimes wry -- attention in the international media.
The talking variety is designed to encourage people to throw their trash in the bins instead of on the streets, the theory being that with some encouragement, citizens and tourists will want to keep the city clean.
Green City, Clean Waters bets that economic and environmental health work in tandem.
Mr Maliki sent 30, 000-plus Iraqi troops, closely mentored by teams of American marines, into the city to clean out the Shia militias.
The national government wants the city to clean up its act for fear that tourists will grumble and athletes will perform below their peak.
He is something else, a bully -- mostly with the approval of his following, who believe (with some cause) that only a bully can clean up New York City.
But, there are many smaller communities across the country that have advantageous locations or something unique about them (i.e. major university located there, name medical complex located there, significant clean industry in the city, highly educated population base without being a large urban complex) that offer attractive locations for women to look at when starting a business.
The city met its clean air targets on 245 days last year, compared with 177 days in 2000.
As part of this global partnership, the staff of Intercontinental Phoenicia Beirut volunteered to help clean and beautify the old city of Tyre.
He is now concentrating on relatively non-controversial projects such as a city-wide clean-up (though he tactlessly, and unsuccessfully, asked the workers to collect the rubbish after hours without charging overtime).
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.
In my last year of active duty, I volunteered for Clean Cities Atlanta and the City of Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Sustainability to help make Atlanta Electric-Vehicle (EV) ready -- and ended up working as a full time administrator on a Department of Energy EV Community Readiness Project with the Center for Transportation and the Environment.
Residents in the city donned masks and helped clean streets or deliver first aid.
He waived the requirement that buildings and homes in New York City use only ultra-clean-burning diesel, though December 7.
The city has been trying to clean-up the area for years, building expensive lofts and upscale restaurants and venues next to the poverty-stricken streets.
That obliged the city to provide security and clean up the mess, which became monumental as the numbers swelled to more than a million by the late 1990s.
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Much play was made a few years ago of the role played by woods and wetlands in upstate New York in keeping New York City's water supply clean.
The poor who clean windscreens and sell pirate CDs in Mexico City include a growing number of elderly people.
Years in the making, Clean Energy Sacramento launched with the support of the City of Sacramento.
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It has put forward a clean water action plan to deal with runoff from city streets and farms.
During the week-long clean, among the items recovered were a Dublin City Council sign, a TV and a Scalextric track.
The report, commissioned by the Canterbury Society and Canterbury 4 Clean Air, has been been presented to the city council.
The city you find yourself in is all clean lines and shadows, and visually very distinctive, in a pure but attractive kind of way.
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They did that by citing an earlier code-enforcement effort called Problem Properties 2000, in which the city inspectors worked cooperatively with landlords to clean up code violations.
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The Clean River Plan is just one facet of the city's drive to implement a new strategy for the Willamette as the 2005 bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition nears.
The city would give incentives to developers to clean up the kind of sites that fell in the light to mid-range of the pollution spectrum and thus languished in state and federal clean-up programs for their lack of severity: if developers complied with environmental guidelines and submitted to oversight, they would be spared the specter of future liability.
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