Sentences with phrase «environmental history from»

Australian pastoralist Guy Fitzhardinge holds a Ph.D in environmental history from the Australia National University and is a Governor of the World Wildlife Fund, serving as a member of its Scientific Assessment Committee, Threatened Species Community Program for ten years.

She holds an M.A. in Art History from the Savannah College of Art & Design and a B.A. in Environmental History from Hope College.

She holds an MA in Art History from the Savannah College of Art & Design and a BA in Environmental History from Hope College.

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The global apparel industry that I hail from has built up a particularly long history of attempting to address concerns from civil society, organized labour and governments about the industry's negative social and environmental impacts.

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — and one of the largest.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

If a corporation / parent company has a substantial egregious record or history of working against our values — organics, sustainability, non-toxic food, social and environmental responsibility, etc., we remove their products from our shelves, or don't stock them in the first place.

April 1, 2004: In late March, the boys from AAR Contractor are spotted in federal court in Syracuse being convicted in one of the largest cases of environmental fraud in the nation's history.

Carmala Garzione, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, and Junsheng Nie, a visiting research associate at the University, surveyed sediment samples from the northern Tibetan Plateau's Qaidam Basin and were able to construct paleoclimate cycle records from the late Miocene epoch of Earth's history, which lasted from approximately 11 to 5.3 million years ago.

Modern readers will be startled by the hall - of - mirrors distorting effect of Chamber's writing thanks to the scientific background being so different from today's (The Fontana History of the Environmental by Peter Bowler is helpful here).

14 Environmental toxins From Donora, Pennsylvania, to Bhopal, India, modern history abounds with frightening examples of the dangers of industrial pollutants.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

Seeds from the same plant germinate at different times to hedge against environmental challenges that plants have faced through history.

That is the conclusion of a new study from the University of California, San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, which used data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to reconstruct the program's budget history.

«If you adhere to these guidelines, you may reduce your risk of getting or dying from cancer, though the risk is not totally eliminated,» she said, noting that family history and environmental factors also play a role in cancer incidence and mortality.

According to Beard, their paper in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds light on a poorly documented interval of our own evolutionary history, and shows climate and environmental change can utterly alter a local ecosystem — from a wet, subtropical forest in the Eocene to a dry desert today.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

«I analyze lacustrine sediments for charcoal, wood ash, micromorphology using thin sections, stable C and N isotopes, XRF, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs to reconstruct fire history and vegetational and environmental changes from LGM to the Holocene.»

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

We are not one pure race, with everyone having the same genetic history, the same family origins; our ancestors came from all over the world, from places with different climates, different food sources and styles, and environmental atmospheres.

It supports environmental / geography studies / colonial history in the Australian curriculum but it also has wider appeal for teachers from other countries wishing to explore human land use activities in marginal environmental areas.

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Back at Sturgis — where 12 percent of students are from disadvantaged backgrounds and 11 percent have learning disabilities — students are considering the creation of the national bank from different perspectives in history class, analyzing E. B. White's essays in English class, developing environmental impact assessments in science class, and reflecting on how they know what they know in theory of knowledge class.

Collier holds degrees from Loyola University Chicago (B.A. History with an emphasis in Women's studies, Philosophy, and Theology), Colorado State University (M.A. History with an emphasis in literature of the American West and Environmental History), and Arizona State University (Ph.D. with an emphasis in American Indian History, the American West, Gender History, and Education).

Examples of project themes range from a comparison of French and American schools to a discussion of an environmental issue facing your region or the state; from sharing cultural information (e.g. tourism, history, visual and performing arts) to comparing geography and related industries in Maine and the Pays de la Loire; from sharing information about students» families and / or friends to creating stories or plays together in French and English.

3.5 hour whale watching cruise off Point Loma (you will go out to sea) Opportunity to spot whales, dolphins, sea lions and other marine wildlife and featuring GRAY WHALES An exclusive look at local environmental efforts Professional live narration by our expert captains and Whalers from San Diego Natural History Museum Snack bars featuring hot food and snacks, full bar and souvenirs Climate - controlled indoor or outdooor seating up on the sun deck 30 feet off the water for great views Views of famous San Diego landmarks

From Smithson to Christo and Jeanne Claude, the history of environmental art is by now long and celebrated.

In addition to providing a comprehensive account of Bradford's career to date, with an emphasis on his work as a painter, this exhibition will foreground new works, including an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is on Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present.

She earned a B.A. from Harvard in 2010, where she studied History and Literature and Visual and Environmental Studies.

Erik received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College in Art History and Visual and Environmental Studies, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and is a graduate of Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts program in Combined Media.

Patton received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College in Art History and Visual and Environmental Studies, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and is a graduate of Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts program in Combined Media.

By saving the places where great moments from history - and the important moments of everyday life - took place, the National Trust for Historic Preservation helps revitalize neighborhoods and communities, spark economic development, and promote environmental sustainability.

In the style of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid creatures from a confluence of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.

Schneider Enriquez and Kopp expect that U.S.A. Idioms will draw interest from a wide variety of disciplines, including history, law, literature, political science, religion, philosophy, art history, and visual and environmental studies.

Atlas comes alive through programming: Beginning in May 2016, the Queens Museum presents a series of public talks, walks, and urban adventures led by the essay writers from the book, artists, and other imaginative thinkers addressing topics including water and power, linguistic diversity in Queens, walking as an embodied act, the conjoined histories of environmental and financial disaster in Lower Manhattan, wilderness in the City, and Latino radio in NYC.

After earning a Master's degree in Art History and Cultural Sciences from Leipzig University in 2010, Ulrike Heine entered an interdisciplinary PhD program and focused her research on contemporary environmental photography.

Anchored by 28 newly commissioned works that were created in Gwangju itself, the Biennale explores a wide range of subjects, from past political histories to urgent environmental and social issues, while also reserving for artists what Lind called «the right to opacity.»

Johanson's environmental work — with the Echo Canyon portion completed this June — not only addresses many audiences and their interests, it's a work that takes us on a journey from the macrocosm of history and time to the microcosms embedded in her work; from natural beauty to environmental sustainability to cultural heritage.

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A lecturer on visual and environmental studies at Harvard with a Yale MFA under her belt, Burin has won a following among art savants — together with gallery and museum shows and art prizes — for her sculptural installations blending elements of Soviet - era architecture and design with revisionist - history narratives that bring women (both real and fictional) from that period to the fore.

Expert tour guides will lead you through some of our most impressive public spaces, sharing their insights on topics ranging from history, to nature, to environmental sustainability.

A select group of artists have contributed works to this group show exploring the «history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art - making from prehistory to the present,» including FABRICE MONTEIRO's «The Prophecy,» series of photographs about the environmental devastation of his native Senegal (above, «Untitled # 1,» 2013).

Among these new works is an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is On Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present (with cultural references that include the rise of HIV and crack cocaine during the 1980s, gangster rap, and mega-churches, along with aspects of the artist's own biography).

Here's a core graph from the BP analysis, which the company says is not the result of a scenario, but of its judgment based on history, trends in energy and environmental policies (or the lack thereof), markets and supplies:

In my opening comments at the meeting, I stressed the need to expand the discussion from the physical and environmental sciences into disciplines ranging from sociology to history, philosophy to the arts.

Aside from having compiled arguably one of the worst environmental records in recent history, Dow

The December gathering, just across the Hudson from the mountain, in Garrison, centered on a lecture by the University of Oklahoma historian Robert D. Lifset, laying out the observations in «Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism,» his rich new history of that event and how it shaped environmental activism and law ever since.