Sentences with phrase «new society at»

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«We look at cars as being able to be a whole new layer of communication between infrastructure and society and general.»

Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and «threatens the continuing survival of human societies,» according to a new study.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

«If you're vulnerable and isolated, the more important that cell phone becomes for you,» says Mark Latonero, a fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, who has studied technology and human trafficking.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

Venezuela is a target - rich environment,» Feierstein said at a December 12 event at the Americas Society / Council of the Americas in New York City.

That's the prospect raised by new technology revealed at a recent Society for Neuroscience meeting (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

And if we're so good at creating technology that does the work for us, will society create new support mechanisms to address that reality?

New research out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America suggests nature sounds might not just mask office chatter, but actually increase your team's productivity as well.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Material in this paper has been presented at the conference, «Permission for Pleasure,» in New York, NY, June 28 - July 1, 1998 and the 25th annual meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society in Montreal, June 1 - 4, 1999.

MIT Climate CoLab's Crowds & Climate Conference — Cambridge, MA Forbes Under 30 Summit — Philadelphia, PA University of British Columbia — Vancouver, BC Beakerhead Creative Society — Calgary, AB Dave Kelly Live — Calgary, AB GiveGetWin Summer Camp at University of Chicago Next Gen Summit — Austin, TX Mentor Capital Network Annual Gathering — New York, NY Ashoka Future Forum — Washington, DC GiveGetWin at NYU Stern School of Business — New York, NY TOMSxSummit — Powder Mountain, UT Howard University — Washington, DC Williams College Kinetic Conference — Williamstown, MA

At the core of this new entrepreneurial path is an understanding that in today's world of commerce, good business is relating to customers as humans, creating wealth in a manner that supports everyone winning, for the betterment of individuals and society.

Today, the NY FED President presented a speech at the Japan Society in New York City, titled, «Lessons at the Zero Bound: The Japanese and U.S. Experience.»

During a talk at the Japan Society in New York, the CEO of the Monex Group made connections between the derivative market in the early 1980s and the current state of cryptocurrency.

Other projects include the restoration of the Cancer Society Centre, Senior Citizen Centre and St Andrew's Kirk Elderly Home in The Bahamas; the construction of a new multipurpose room at Petite Savanne Primary School in Dominica; and the provision of school supplies to children in St Lucia.

«Regulators really hated derivatives in 1980 but just soon after that they really embraced them,» Oki Matsumoto, CEO of Monex, said on stage at the Japan Society in New York Tuesday.

While Pranesh Prakash, policy director at the Centre For Internet and Society, doesn't believe the government would actually summon Zuckerberg to India, he says, «One new concern that's valid across the world, where there are limitations put on freedom of expression during times of campaigning and elections, how do they translate online?

The transformation of the pragmatic, results - oriented, rationalist liberalism of John F. Kennedy, first into the New Left and subsequently into postmodern American liberalism, put the imperial autonomous Self at the center of one pole of American public life, where it displaced the notion of the free and virtuous society as the goal of American democracy.

Dr. Clemons is professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and chairman of the Commission on Church and Society at Chevy Chase, Maryland.

We became a middle - class society only after the concentration of income at the top dropped sharply during the New Deal, and especially during World War II.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

by LOVING others, one wold nOT want to enslave them... and I DID admit that this welfare system was nOT the best... except for at that time period since they do not have same kind of systems we do today (remember ALSO this was a brand new society starting out) got to start out with basics...

According to them, these islands are at the origin of the «new information society» and are in the process of engendering the «knowledge society», the universe of dematerialised wealth and new knowledge.

Thomas Sprat, writing in his History of the Royal Society (founded to facilitate new scientific discovery at the end of the seventeenth century), announced the grand expulsion.

In New City, the magazine of the Focolare movement, Frank Johnson argues that «The divide between the sacred and the secular, the mystical and the material seems to be growing ever wider, at least in Western society.

At the same time, Bonhoeffer also addresses his challenge to the new elites of our society, those who were powerless but are now powerful, those who were in solidarity with the poor but are now numbered among the rich.

The early»60s were also an optimistic time at home when it seemed that the civil rights movement was bringing about long overdue changes in our society and a new phase of democratization seemed possible.

He became president of the Kiva Club, the Indian society at the University of New Mexico, and guided its interest toward both a recovery of traditional Indian thought and efforts to improve the conditions of Indians in American society.

In this case, however, the church may be the one institution in our society uniquely suited to raise aspirations aimed at new family traditions, and to provide a framework for their attainment.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

For Berry, the economics of our technological society «is dedicated to the role of moving the greatest amount of natural resources, with the greatest possible efficiency, through the consumer society, to the waste heap that is not the source of new life by way of fertilizing the fields and farms, but a waste heap that is dead - end at best and often enough a toxic source of further death.

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's deatAt the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's deatat Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

At certain points in Latin American history, these prophets have been catalytic agents in mobilizing those who have accomplished intermediate goals in building that new society.

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This progressive New England family is headed by Kenneth C. MacArthur, pastor of the Federated Church in Sterling Massachusetts, lecturer at Andover Newton Seminary, advocate for the Social Gospel, and spokesman for the American Eugenics Society.

It is being recognized a little more readily today by at least some Marxists and some Christians, that the Communist concern for the welfare of the whole human society, including in particular that of the worker, and the Communist hope for a renewed world with a classless society, find their roots in the Judeo - Christian heritage, and especially the new - world - hope of the prophets of Israel.

In a society pervaded by the goals of consumption, those who seek power for themselves can also, by skillful psychological manipulation, create new wants, which they then proceed to satisfy, at a profit to themselves.

Christian activity has been responsible for introducing new concepts of social responsibility, while at the same time alleviating some of the suffering, injustice, and oppression caused by society.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

Fr Brown is of the New Orleans province of the Society of Jesus, a researcher at the Vatican Observatory and a member of the editorial board of the New Jesuit Review.

The show, which runs until October 30 at New York's Asia Society, is the first to bring works of Gandharan art to the United States since 1960.

In a substantive new book, Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine, Robert Dodaro, professor at the Institutum Patristicum in Rome, draws on these letters to frame the discussion of Augustine's understanding of a just society and of his great work the City Society in the Thought of Augustine, Robert Dodaro, professor at the Institutum Patristicum in Rome, draws on these letters to frame the discussion of Augustine's understanding of a just society and of his great work the City society and of his great work the City of God.

Perhaps, through them, it will find the confidence to embark on a new era, in which it engages with society at all levels and cooperates with its friends around the world.

It at once becomes clear, when we adopt this altered standpoint, that the purpose of a new Declaration of the Rights of Man can not be, as formerly, to ensure the highest possible degree of independence for the individual in society, but to define the conditions under which the inevitable totalization of Mankind may be effected, not only without impairing but so as to enhance, I will not say the autonomy of each of us but (a quite different thing) the incommunicable singularity of being which each of us possesses.

The remarkable new vitality that has developed since then is apparent in the churches and in society at large.

But today we need new visions of a perfected social order, a planetary society in which all men have equal access to the means of human fulfillment in a world brotherhood at peace with nature and with God.