Sentences with phrase «about ecological systems»

PIS Rerun: Dr. Kirk Honda talks about ecological systems and child development.

These stories provide information about an Indigenous nation's territory through knowledge of use patterns and observations about ecological systems and past events that have occurred through thousands of years of occupation.

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But GM crops have been around for only about 15 years, and that is not long enough to fully assess their effect on complex biological and ecological systems.

And what about the entire ecological system of things, that works in harmony with us as humans for life to exist, from our atmosphere at 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen down to the magnetosphere that comes from within the core of the earth and protects us from the sun's damaging electrically charged particles?

The second is more along the lines of author Frank Herbert, who explored in his Byzantine * Dune * saga just about every major system of power dynamics from religious / mystical to technological to political to tribal to financial to ecological to physical.

Australian economist and ecological thinker H. C. Coombs (1990) has said: «There is nothing divinely ordained about the economic system: it is the product of human ingenuity, effort and capacity to organize and, therefore, can be properly questioned, criticized and, if a better alternative exist, rejected» (p. 143).

In 2002, he bought a property 138 miles from Paris and dedicated himself to learning about permaculture farming, a beyond - organic ecological system.

A more scientific way of thinking about it is that large parts of the system have reached an ecological tipping point.

The Lukina Jama - Trojama is the deepest cave system in Croatia, extraordinary for its vertical shape, long pits and great depth of -1392 m. From an ecological point of view this cave system is extremely interesting for having three microclimatic layers: firstly entrance icy part with the temperature of about 1 °C, secondly, middle part with the temperature up to 2 °C and bottom part with temperature till 4 °C.

Social and ecological factors — including cultural traditions of raw fish sharing, farming practices and open sewer systems that let the parasite flourish in community ponds, and a lack of community education about parasite transmission — went unaddressed.

Marilyn Roossinck of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, spoke with Sarah Crespi about the diversity of roles that viruses take on in ecological systems, from protecting plants from drought to moderating nitrogen fixation.

We need to better explain the impacts of climate on the systems we care about, such as the human systems, ecological, carbon cycle systems.

His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

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The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

For example, by learning about plants, animals and habitats, they build a foundation for understanding and treasuring ecological systems and places.

While Monster Hunter: World certainly maintains that emphasis on killing giant beasts, the game also asks us to care about the monsters we slaughter, and understand our own hand in maintaining and destroying the ecological system.

I engage with images which are not about a scene but rather about a system, one that is both ecological and historical.

According to Gates, this housing art belongs to a virtuous ecological system in which the improvements brought about by the project are financed through the sale of works of art made with materials found on site, investing them with certain historical and iconic meanings.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

It is also clear that modest amounts of warming will have both positive and negative impacts, but above about 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit most impacts turn negative for many ecological systems, and for most nations.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

Food Tank had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Harpinder Sandhu about the application of the principles of ecological economics in agriculture and food systems and how the TEEBAgriFood report thinks outside the lens of productivity.

At the risk of descending ever further into off - topic weirdness, here's an article about the environmental message of the aliens, also mentioning «intelligences beyond the material realm», «ecological destruction on a scale that threatens the survival of the Earth's living systems» and the fossil fuel lobby.

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About Blog National Wildlife Refuge Association aims to conserve American wildlife for future generations by protecting, enhancing and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System and the wildlife habitats beyond its boundaries that secure its ecological integrity.

USA About Blog The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

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It's not just about human development but the opportunity to restore wildlife and enrichment,» says Kimberly Pontius, executive vice president of the Traverse Association of REALTORS ® in Traverse City, Mich. «When you restore these ecological systems to where they should be, you're breathing life into the system,» he says.