Sentences with phrase «cultural climate challenges»

Together, his artworks and research seek to facilitate an increased understanding of the shared social, political, environmental, and cultural climate challenges we face, both within our local communities, and in the international arena.

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Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

Adam Corner's excellent article identified the psychological and cultural challenges to enabling a rational discussion on climate change (22 February,...

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

We can therefore anticipate that a stronger cultural cohesion could make it even harder for ideas that challenge existing worldviews to be voiced or accepted - creating even further obstacles for the acceptance of climate change in societies that are currently skeptical.

The cultural and cognitive filters in human brains makes it easy for George Will to build a following and then go out and find a winner of a physics Nobel whose views mesh with Will's «no worries» approach to the energy and climate challenges.

Between 2011 and 2013 there were the Carbon 12, Carbon 13 and Carbon 14 exhibitions in Paris, Texas and Toronto each addressing climate as a cultural challenge.

In Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development: Scientific, Social, Cultural and Educational Challenges, ed.

Collaborating with scientists and cultural informers in confronting the facts of global climate change, the artists participating in the Carbon 14: Climate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately humaclimate change, the artists participating in the Carbon 14: Climate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately humaClimate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately humaclimate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately human ways.

Recognizing that climate change may be the most pressing challenge facing SIDS, the document outlines UNESCO's work on climate change in the following areas: climate science and knowledge; education; diversity and cultural heritage; and the social, human ethical and gender dimensions.

Cape Farewell Foundation and Pattison Onestop are proud to present Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a culturaClimate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a culturaclimate challenge through a cultural lens.

«Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture,» said Zhao.

They all challenge directly or indirectly the certainty of calamity, because true to it's name the climate change consensus is detectable as cultural, i.e. it is a socially enforced consensus, with the certainty of calamity as it's core narrative.

From the article:... Answer: The evolutionary emergence of modernism is what has produced the challenge of environmental degradation and climate change, and these problems can only be effectively ameliorated through further cultural evolution.

We run campaigns, provide education, inspiration, practical tools, creative ideas, and leadership to challenge our cultural acceptance of fossil fuels, and to get New Zealand and the rest of the world back on track to 350ppm and, consequentially, climate safety.

She also covers some of the challenges transgender persons face in our political and cultural climate.