Sentences with phrase «as environmental forces»

Mr Miliband will also set out the case of the EU as an environmental force.

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Again, you want to avoid any negative surprises about a supplier's environmental record, and you can use your leverage as a customer to force improvement.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

Since the storm hit, Puerto Rico's 3.3 million residents have been forced to endure an agonizingly slow power restoration effort, suffering health and environmental harms as bureaucracy, logistical difficulties, and potential corruption hampered progress.

It will be interesting, then, to see how Okotokians, especially those thousands who ostensibly flocked to town specifically because of its environmental reputation, mark their ballot in the next provincial election if forced to choose between a not - so - green Smith and a pro-growth PC candidate such as Morton.

The Christian task forces dealing with the environmental crisis have typically borne such names as «eco-justice.»

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

As a founding B Corp member, we are committed to using the power of business as a force for social and environmental gooAs a founding B Corp member, we are committed to using the power of business as a force for social and environmental gooas a force for social and environmental good.

As in many industries, packaging suppliers have been forced to become increasingly conscious of their environmental impact by cutting waste.

They are increasingly taking action through civil litigation, complaints and petitions to state institutions — efforts aided by environmental NGOs, the media, and the effect of mass protest.Academic studies have drawn attention to the role the media, ENGOs and civil litigation as potential forces in aiding environmental protection implementation.

It should also act as a spur to force review of both the Hudson Valley case and the Syracuse decision to ensure that labor, environmental, or health standards were not ignored.

Although she is not chair of the committee, as Speaker, Mark - Viverito can set the agenda and force a vote on the bill, Peggy Shepard, executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, said.

Since the Kyoto protocol came into force in 2005, companies in the developing world can generate greenhouse gas emission reductions and sell them as «carbon credits» in the developed world through such mechanisms as the European Union's Environmental Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which is similar to schemes in Japan and New Zealand.

Because of such concerns the U.S. Department of Energy has convened a special task force to improve the safety and environmental impacts of such fracking for natural gas, including how best to dispose of the voluminous wastewater as well as ensuring proper sealing of wells to prevent such groundwater contamination.

The FDA was forced to make its determination as part of a settlement to a lawsuit filed in August by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York.

The magnitude of our environmental problems, such as global warming and loss of the ozone layer, is forcing us to delve into the past and into other philosophies for an answer.

«This gene could be a particularly valuable tool as climate change shifts our growing seasons and we are forced to develop plants that can adapt to those environmental changes,» Bradford said.

«As a result, modelers have been forced to assume that the stomata of all species open and close in response to environmental conditions in the same way,» he said.

Because it uses environmental productivity as a key driver of ecosystemdynamics, EEH incorporates both bottom - up and top - down forces.

In fact, they occur wherever animals live in «bonded» groups — where individuals gather together because of their personal relationships rather than being forced to by environmental factors such as a food source or safe sleeping site.

Thus, rather than a multiplication of ecological roles, the new results point to external factors, such as increasing environmental heterogeneity, as the main evolutionary force.

«There may be opportunities for a business to come in and solve an environmental problem and tap some profit potential as a way of driving a change, as opposed to having all the solutions funded by philanthropies or forced by government regulations,» Gaines says.

The environmental ranges of many animal and plant species are starting to alter with climate change, as temperatures change and force species to migrate to more suitable climes.

A small but growing body of evidence is finally pointing to rising temperatures — and not headline - grabbing natural disasters — as the main environmental force permanently ousting people from their homes.

The state's environmental community had been gearing up for a ballot initiative this year that would have forced the state's utilities to abandon coal as a fuel for electricity.

After providing an overview of the environmental and dietary influences that affect brain function in Part I, in Part II the book, Dr. Hyman takes us on a tour de force journey through the seven core systems — nutrition, hormones, immune function, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and mind - body — that not only deeply answers this question, but enables effective individualized treatment as each chapter opens with a quiz to help identify where the patient is out of balance.

Instead, there are almost always very powerful environmental forces pressing in on the body and forcing it to assume its present shape (such as the «shape» of an overtrained body).

Stephen's added expertise as a biodynamic organic farmer and environmental educator allows him to guide clients into a deep connection with the healing forces of nature.

The popular majorities — those who are forced to survive on wage labor, sometimes known as the 99 percent — are never able to win great substantial victories for democracy, but are forced to accept incremental steps towards achieving some small victories in the areas of progressive taxation, health care, universal education, retirement pensions, and environmental and consumer protections and civil rights.

He was appointed as a member of the Blueprint for Environmental Literacy Task Force by California Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2014 - 15 and chairs the private school selection committee for the Green Ribbon Schools program in California.

During his first SEMA presidency term, Edelbrock Jr. formed the first group of committees dealing with environmental issues, and served as chairman of SEMA's Emissions Task Force in 1978.

Alongside communities living near the river, Kenya Defence Forces Cadets from the Kenya Military Academy joined us as part of their Environmental Soldier Program.

To the Kenya Defense Forces, the Professor was an enduring source of inspiration as we teamed up with her and the GBM to tackle the eco challenge in not only greening our country but more importantly in solving conflicts emanating from environmental degradation and competition for the division of resources.

Citing Lipman's commitment over 40 years as Executive Director at IATA (International Air Transport Association), President of WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council), and Assistant Secretary General of UNWTO (UN World Tourism Organization), Aidi said that «He has always been a leading advocate of travel and tourism as a force for positive change — economic, social, and above all environmental.»

Ambiente Course Designed by notable golf architect Jason Straka on behalf of Hurdzan / Fry Environmental Golf Design, Ambiente will present a distinct challenge where accuracy and a good strategy command the day, as every hole will force even the best players to focus on each and every shot.

Arroyo said he held the environmental award particularly close to his heart, as he was the driving force behind the hotel's environmentally - friendly construction.

This 3D platformer lets you use weapons, vehicles, environmental objects, and time and space manipulation toThe world is in peril as forces, both good and evil, make a play for the powerful Chaos Emeralds.

The environmental changes will force you and your team to adapt as a group and change up your tactics on the fly.

Wave Hill is exploring the concept of wrath as it relates to times of environmental uncertainty, with paintings and sculpture by artists who have a long - term interest in depicting cataclysmic forces.

Her kinetic sculptures often relate to environmental issues and forces of nature such as the sun, water, gravity, or wind to create gentle movement.

The body itself is pictured as a contingent form, a psychic container, and a field of unending transformation and renewal governed by social and environmental forces.

The work, which first premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale and will have its first New York presentation at the New Museum, focuses on the ocean as an environmental, cultural, and historical force, connecting literature and poetry, the history of slavery, and contemporary issues of migration and climate change.

Incorporating environmental strategies that solve critical issues of comfort, use and economy, these projects, dating from 1925 to 1970, recognize and adapt to natural forces and serve as inspiration and guide for the current green building movement.

He is particularly interested in the ability of environmental forces outside his control to create a timeless quality to the work thereby allowing it to feel as if it has been memory and is part of the collective unconscious.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.

But that is because governments in wealthy countries have imposed high taxes on gasoline, or forced environmental regulations on industry — such as those demanded by Kyoto.

Now that we know that human actions can be a major environmental shaping force, I would suggest we'd better understand that force as much as anything.

It was, of course, a man under the fur: Brendan Cummings, a lawyer and public lands director for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups that used litigation to force the Department of the Interior to consider listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act as threatened (which it did).