Sentences with phrase «based environmental think»

The report in question — «Post-Partisan Power» — received significant coverage, primarily because of its sponsorship: a combination of a prominent Republican - oriented Washington think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and an equally prominent Democratic - oriented Washington think tank, the Brooking Institution (and a third partner, the Breakthrough Institute, a California - based environmental think tank).

Now we need an all - out sprint to get over the finish line in Paris,» said Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute, a Washington - based environmental think tank.

Sam Adams, U.S. director of the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C. — based environmental think tank, issued this statement:

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

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«I think far less than 1 percent of the 7.4 billion people on earth are driven by the environmental benefit of plant - based food.

Though Jamison gives weight to psychological and environmental factors, she thinks the scientific evidence points to a biological basis for the devastating mental illnesses that spawn most suicides.

We have all made snap decisions based on a whim or even, as with cloth diapering, based on our baby's health, the family budget, or the ever - present environmental concerns, only later to wonder what in the world we were thinking.

We also need to get everything sorted for environmental agencies, financial watchdogs, competition authorities and countless other bodies most of us don't think about on a day - to - day basis.

«I would think that people would put betting on horses and playing bingo on a par with a right to a healthful environment,» said Peter M. Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, a nonprofit lobbying group based here.

«I think that this decision represents a clear and powerful recognition of how serious the threat of global warming is and that our reliance on coal for power generation needs to be changed,» says Eric Young, spokesman on global warming at New York City — based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

«I think it's a great educational tool, which is just what a lot of consumers need right now,» says Katharine Burnham, media director of the New York City — based Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which offers a similar online service called Seafood Selector on its Web site and for mobile devices.

Such decision - making is thought to be characterized by (1) distinct choice of one option based on gradually changing and / or confusing environmental information and (2) the choice is quick when the information is clear but slow when unclear.

Though mutations that cause human cancer have traditionally been thought to originate from heredity or environmental sources, these results — grounded in a novel mathematical model based on data from around the world — support a role for so - called «R» or random mutations in driving the disease.

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the most common forms of IBD, an autoimmune condition that is thought to develop based on genetic and environmental factors.

Determining which projects are «additional» can be tricky, explains researcher Larry Lohmann of the Corner House, an environmental think tank based in Dorset, England.

«Weather systems are large, and our inputs as humans are so small you'd think we'd have no influence at all,» says Ross N. Hoffman, chief scientist and vice president of research and development at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Based on that book I was invited to be a hormone scholar at an environmental estrogen hormone think tank at Tulane University where I really worked with the guys who were developing this new field.

He is a passionate advocate of service learning, environmental sustainability, big picture visioning, and using nature based coaching techniques for out of the box creative thinking and idea generation.

Nancy Rabalais, a marine scientist who has spent much of her career probing environmental risks to the coasts and waters of the Gulf of Mexico, sent me some cautionary thoughts on cleanup options based on decades of work, including field studies following the 1979 blowout of the Ixtoc I oil well in the western Gulf.

In a panel discussion I chaired recently at Pace University's Center for Ethical Thinking, Dr. Mirele Goldsmith, a New York based environmental psychologist, recounted a case of communal activism as an example of a specific kind of environmental citizenship.

«As I scratch my head in an effort to figure out the AIG bonuses and wonder how the economic stimulus is going to impact my life and business, I can't help but think about what makes real economic sense to me.Over the last 20 years, we have run an economy based upon who can supply the lowest price, not considering social and environmental impact.

The Beijing Energy Network (BEN or 北京能源网络) is a grassroots organization based in Beijing with a mission of promoting networking and collaboration in understanding and tackling China's energy and environmental challenges among individuals and organizations from diverse sectors such as government, finance, industry, media, advocacy, think tanks and academia.

Driessen is senior policy adviser at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, D.C. - based libertarian think tank focused on environmental issues that has received funding from fossil fuel interests such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.

Regardless of what they think about climate change, however, they should resist demonizing market - based approaches to environmental protection and reverting to pre-1980s thinking that saddled business and consumers with needless costs.

Prior to joining NIDIS, she served as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow at adelphi, a Berlin - based international think tank, conducting research on climate risk insurance, environmental conflict and state fragility, and the water - food - energy nexus.

As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over the political establishment, the failure to win the public support that might create the basis for decisive action to save the planet has also increasingly been blamed on climate sceptics operating on the internet.

Even though I do agree with this basic premise, I think that any society with an economic system based on natural resource extraction at a massive scale and limitless consumption will inexorably result in environmental degradation, regardless of its ideology or discourse.

Hayes also spent four years working at the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco - based think tank tasked with analyzing the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization.

Earlier this month, former senior cabinet minister Jim Prentice told the Financial Post that he thought «environmental organizations based outside the country [should] be required to reveal who gives them funding when they participate in Canada's regulatory process to influence Canada's internal decisions.»

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

The climate - change message has gotten mixed up with lots of fear - based environmental messages from recent decades, and people who are only marginally interested in these issues don't engage because they think we're all crying wolf.

For this reason, and because the Council thought that the PCA covered other areas than development cooperation, it added Articles 91 and 100 TFEU (transport), 79 (3) TFEU (readmission of third - country nationals), and 191 (4) TFEU (environmental protection) as additional legal bases to Articles 207 (Common Commercial Policy) and 209 TFEU.

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These disorders are thought to be genetically based, and there is no evidence linking them to environmental factors.

Michael Laas, formerly the director of impact for SH Group, an affiliate of the private investment group Starwood Capital, and currently chief executive officer of the Miami - based environmental consultancy Sustainable Futures Group, said that current Miami development should be viewed as a combination of wishful thinking, clear - eyed realism, and pressure for short - term profits.