Sentences with phrase «change the debate around»

Explains Durant, «By expanding the conversation and encouraging different forms of response, participants can become active within the project and even change the debate around the initial issue.»

During this past summer's rollout of the EPA's historic climate initiative, the president and his allies went to great lengths to reframe the climate change debate around the health of our children and the elderly, as opposed to the fate of the polar bears and the melting ice caps that have long served as the de facto mascots of the climate movement.

Not exact matches

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims has addressed the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney backing competition reforms proposed by the Harper Review Panel - three points were highlighted: (1) need to make a choice about s 46 - clearly preferencing a change to an SLC approach; (2) need to extend the Act to cover more government activities; (3) need to debate and decide the issues around competition advocacy and market studies.

Debates about how to combat climate change usually revolve around how to cut emissions from smokestacks and vehicle tailpipes.

Finally, the guys explore the latest debate and the petition circulating around changing Atlético Madrid's nine - month - old badge.

For most pediatricians, the vaccine debate doesn't revolve around trying to change the minds of anti-vaccine proponents.

Could a Hollande victory change the terms of the debate in Europe, catalyse a debate around a new set of social - democrat answers to the crisis, and possibly in doing so help to give momentum to the German Social - Democrats (currently flat - lining in German polls)?

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

Eric Evans, the President of NARPO said, «We recognise the Government has a right to seek to appoint their preferred candidate to be the next HMCIC but much of the debate both around the preferred candidate and policing changes has been around personality rather than issues.

Not coincidentally, the current plan is for such changes to be debated and, Republicans hope, passed sometime around the end of the year — the same time the debt ceiling will be coming back up.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

«It seemed like a fresh start was in order, especially in light of all the new ideas around which I am hoping to drive conversation and debate,» said Weiner, explaining the change, in an email to DNAinfo.com New York.

«It's time to turn this debate around, drive out the politics of despair and offer a vision for Britain and Europe, one where we protect workers» rights, tackle tax avoidance, get to grips with climate change and protect our industries like steel,» he said.

«After helping to lead the debate in changing the balance of our economy in a more sustainable direction, you are now turning your back on green industry and risk undermining the UK's growing reputation around the world for leadership in this field,» he wrote.

It notes on its Web site that several theories exist in the debate around climate change, including the idea that Earth is «entering a cooling period.»

Skeptic: Let's talk in 30 years While debate flared around what to do about climate change, the notion that the earth is warming might be more widely accepted.

We need to articulate the debates and discussion around climate change in that context.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

«It reframes part of the climate change debate by encouraging individuals around the world to better understand where their electricity is coming from before they adopt supposedly eco-friendly technologies,» he says.

The Center's stated mission is to «separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally - charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change.»

is to «separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally - charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change.»

The fundamental difference in opinion (which has not changed since Michaels and Hansen started debating each other in 1988) is that Hansen (and the vast majority of relevant experts) think that climate sensitivity (how much the globe will warm under a doubling of CO2) is around 3 (+ / -1) °C, while Michaels thinks that it is much less (< 1 °C).

But, after researchers at Oregon Health and Science University managed to change the mutated version of the MYBPC3 gene to the unmutated version in a viable human embryo last month, the predictable bioethical debate was reignited, and terms such as «Designer Babies» got thrown around a lot.

(Whether the drugs do in fact cause dangerous metabolic changes, including diabetes, is currently being debated in class - action lawsuits involving thousands of patients and several law firms around the U.S.)

They're gathered to hash out the truth about knotty topics such as evolution and climate change, and as the debate jumps around, so too does the music — from swinging New Orleans jazz to creepy deep - space psychedelia to lively two - beat gospel.

Spears says that it will be interesting to see how the public adds on and changes the A100 wiki site over time as the debate around the issues grow and change.

Is the debate around macro vs. micro learning just distracting from focusing on what will really help implement behavior change?

Folks should know that one of the primary sources Michael relies upon is Max Eden's research which I've debunked elsewhere, and who most recently has in my opinion been making outlandish and exploitive statements about the school shootings, in part to change the framework away from a gun control debate as he describes starting around the 13:50 mark.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

«If Finland, South Korea, Victoria, Ontario and Singapore started taking this really seriously, the whole debate around high - stakes testing would change quite dramatically,» Leadbeater added.

Around 8:00 pm, as seven weary Board members were debating a proposal put forth by Board member Steve Zimmer calling on the district and state to bring greater transparency to the parent trigger signature - gathering process, Superintendent John Deasy suggested that the Board might as well lobby Sacramento to repeal the law instead of just lobbying Sacramento to change it (as the original Zimmer resolution requested).

This is changing the entire debate around public education... and we urge you to learn more about it.»

The dramatic change to the publishing landscape brought about by the mushrooming of self - publishing has led to concerns, with the editor of publishing news site Good e-Reader, Michael Kozlowski, saying there needs to be a debate around what constitutes being an author, because «calling everyone authors who put words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless».

Now let's talk about the progression and Star Card system that's been a very hot topic of debate around the web lately and admittedly sort of confusing since it has gone through a couple changes.

Tate Modern director Frances Morris noted that her work is regarded for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us,» the Guardian reported.

Inspired by the intellectual debates that characterised much of the mid 1900s, particularly the emergence of semiology as a field of study, these artists evoked numerous media to explore and attempt to understand the rapid social change unfolding around them.

Tate Modern's director Frances Morris commented: «Tania Bruguera is well known for the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.»

«I'd like this to start a debate and the way to do that was to collaborate with others, using the photographs as a catalyst for people to think about the change around us.

To become an active initiator of and influential participant in debates around the changing role of photography, in the mid-1980s Fotograficentrum expanded its activities.

Frances Morris, the director of Tate Modern, said Bruguera was well known for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

As the policy debate around western water and climate change intensifies, it'll be ever more important to discriminate spin from science in assessing factors shaping droughts, as Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has been trying to stress.

As has been hinted at here there is resistance to factual debate on climate change that amounts to intrigue — as Sir David King said, he was «being followed around the world by people in the pay of vested - interest groups that want to cast doubt on the science of climate change».

But it will certainly add a new element to the already robust climate change and energy debate around the $ 7 billion proposed project.

In particular his conclusion that the debate around climate change is fundamentally about power and politics rather than the environment seems undeniable.

One can tell by how climate change policies are being debated around much of the world that few people, including many very educated people, understand the scale and urgency of the problem now [continue reading...]

«With current debate around the dangers of providing a false sense of «balance» on a topic as societally important as climate change, we're quite astonished that The Times has taken the decision to put such a non-story on its front page.

... The Center's claimed mission is to «separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally - charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change.»