Sentences with phrase «activists like»

Now more than ever, we need the support of activists like you.

And Texans are with us, including a new generation of activists like Sadie Hernandez, who's spent weeks protesting outside the Governor's mansion through pouring rain.

Today, married women in California and other community property states have equal property rights thanks to forward - thinking activists like Ms. Stone and Mr. Blackwell.

And according to at least some, activists like STAND and other like - minded western NGOs with inadequate background are making the situation exponentially worse.

Activists like Omido should not be targeted or vilified; they deserve to be honored and protected.

This isn't the picture that renewable energy activists like to trumpet when praising wind and solar power.

The Pope recognized the importance of grassroots activists like Father Edu, who are working at the local level to stem the impacts of climate change.

The film features interviews with eaters, farmers, seed savers, seed activists like Dr. Vandana Shiva, and documents events like last year's seed swap during Occupy Wall Street.

The usual activists like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth remind us that the whole thing is just another hand out for fossil fuels and it doesn't mention anything about deep enough carbon emission reductions.

Like me I'd think he'd give environmental activists like Greenpeace very little credit for improving our environment, and technology / industry plenty for changing our lives from short / brutish / nasty to something much better.

My exposure to this movement — through case studies and the work of activists like Van Jones and Majora Carter — made me passionate about wanting to spread the word about the connections between environmental and social justice issues.

«It is up to activists like Leng and affected local communities to make a stand against the short - sighted, greed - driven policies of the Phnom Penh elite.

We'll tell the story of this exciting transition, speaking with civil society activists like Astrid Puentes Riañio, co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, who are driving this change.

In this hour, we'll meet thinkers and government activists like World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman Dr. Klaus Schwab and Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz - Waltz, leaders who are facing reality and creating innovative clean energy solutions that build thriving businesses and communities alike.

Though environmental activists like Michael Mann, James Hansen and Al Gore often like to claim that their enemies are in the pay of Big Oil, the truth is the exact opposite.

These days Mann's once iconic «hockey stick» looks pretty flaccid once you add in tree rings post-1980, and, aside from addle - brained activists like Ed Begley Jr and a handful of sycophantic eco-bloggers, few people wish to be associated with it.

Nonetheless, prominent environmental activists like Monbiot and Oreskes — who, given their academic positions, ought to know better — maintain the image of the evil tobacco lobby in order to «link» its modus operandi to climate sceptics.

But thanks to the work of activists like Agrawal, that may be beginning to change.

Because you will see that they completely undercut the allegations made by InsideClimate News in its series about ExxonMobil — allegations that were subsequently echoed by activists like Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes.

But talking with thoughtful and committed activists like our five guests and watching the creative ways they're working for climate solutions — from bringing climate consciousness to hip - hop to speaking on the issue through the media to addressing world leaders at the UN to reaching out to families — gives us a whole lot of #ClimateHope and we're hungry to come back for seconds.

What most definitely is scandalous is the vile hypocrisy of Soon's harrassment by the warmist establishment, which receives billions every year from the US government, left - wing charities, and billionaire activists like Tom Steyer and George Soros to prop up their bankrupt cause by promoting exactly the kind of junk science which Soon (and similarly principled scientists) have made it their business to shred.

Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing plans for massive coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.

But let's be very clear: it is simply not realistic — as anti-nuclear energy activists like Ms. Collard argue — to replace existing nuclear and coal - fired plants, which currently make up 68 per cent of Ontario's electricity production, with renewables alone.

Green groups and armchair activists like Thomas Friedman routinely claim that government regulation is the key to unleashing technology innovation, just as it was for the I.T. revolution.

The real super-pain for farmers remains lawsuit - happy activists like the Sierra Club, and its legal adjunct, the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.

What this blog is all about is preventing the extreme expansion of government power (and, perhaps the throttling of industrial civilization) due to the actions of politically - connected activists like Hansen and Gore, based on unverified guesses about the future.

Activists like Leonard are just mis - identifying the barriers to effective climate action.

Distressingly, McKibben and activists like him have persuaded some colleges, churches, charitable institutions, and municipalities to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

I think not being an environmentalist is enough to be smeared as a denier in many settings, certainly by political activists like Oreskes.

As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, we wanted to take a moment and give thanks to all the grassroots environmental activists like Hilton Kelley who are working hard to protect our natural resources.

As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, we wanted to take a moment and give thanks to all the grassroots environmental activists like Hilton Kelley who are working... Read More

Activists like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio have for years argued that individual actions, such as driving more - economical cars or using more - efficient light bulbs, are a crucial element in the effort to address global warming.

But Wall thinks limousine - activists like Al Gore and Daryl Hannah are actually harming Canada-U.S. relations with their propaganda.

Organic crops, wood and bio-fuels actually need more land, land, lotsa» land, than efficient modern practices, but Green activists like to ignore the inconvenient facts..

These preferences are a point of contention with activists like Kevon Martis, who has helped people in Michigan and Ohio oppose local wind farm development.

This is a bottom - up, grassroots hub for young climate activists like you.

He gets his information almost only from activists like Romm, and accepts them as gospel.

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

But now «science» is being used to make arguments to limit what newspapers may publish, by left wing and environmental activists like White.

Obviously, the burden of proof is on the IPCC and activists like Trenberth to justify their claim that the warming is «very likely» due to human activities, which they have completely failed to do.

Inspired by the traditions of Dada and its activists like Tristan Tzara, and related to other contemporary art movements and genres such as Mail Art, Lettrism, Funk Art, Nouveau Realisme, as well as Neo-Dada, and the Situationist International, Fluxus was firmly opposed to conventional art, which it saw as elitist and remote.

From 1915 to 1918, with Picabia, Duchamp was settled in New York, to which he brought what was to be the spirit of the Dada movement, as expressed by activists like Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963).

But while artists like Warhol often escaped being sued for the images they appropriated, in the past, many artists and activists like Thomas can be far more vulnerable than previous generations have ever been.

Although not typically associated with the art world, Manning will find herself in good company as she shares the spotlight with artists and activists like artist and experimental musician Laurie Anderson and Russian conceptual artist and political activist Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot.

Finally, Carlisle said individual investors should follow well - regarded activists like Carl Icahn into a stock because they create catalysts to move shares higher.

You can learn more about activists like Mr. Icahn by reading money manager Tobias Carlisle's new book Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations.

Investing alongside powerful activists like Carl Icahn, Pershing Square's Bill Ackman, Trian Partners» Nelson Peltz or Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners can produce big profits.

And in the case of the school reform movement, the Gates Foundation came two decades politicians such as Lamar Alexander, chambers of commerce, school leaders such as Howard Fuller, and parent activists like Virginia Walden Ford, began demanding an overhaul to a system that works for far too few of our children.

While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.

Trends like these make youth activists like Rodriguez hopeful.