Sentences with phrase «cultural climate where»

We need to create a cultural climate where everyone simply accepts the arguments for sustainability.

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

Not exact matches

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Explicitly writing into the plan the need for creating a strong culture and climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning, social and emotional learning).»

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.»

Here, Bas takes as a point of reference the charged cultural climate of 1960s San Francisco, where a church was founded for which «hell» actually meant «heaven».

Tangled Up by Kalup Linzy is an exercise in narrative, where the artist as storyteller weaves fragments of personal and collective memory to inform upon a sweeping, yet localized, account of identity - formation, selfhood and self - fashioning in the current cultural climate.

Ensayos considers Tierra del Fuego and its climate and cultural concerns as a laboratory where issues of global importance are considered at a hyper - local level.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

In addition, cultural polarization over the validity of the climate - change study was lower for both U.S. and English subjects in the geoengineering condition than in the anti-pollution condition, where polarization was actually larger for U.S. subjects than it was in the control.

The process of degrading science into a state controlled pseudo-scientific faith has turned whole institutions into bastions of Lysenkoism where workers, researchers, teachers and bureaucrats toil in a climate of cultural terror and oppression, at least, for anyone who can still think outside the orthodox frame.

Global warming science has become a battleground in a wider cultural war, particularly in the United States where rejecting climate science has been seamlessly adopted by right - wing populism — notably by the Tea Party, the movement of those who demand their fair share of injustice.

A simple reading of this philosophy, applied to these circumstances, implies that «hiding out» long enough will allow them to re-emerge into a cultural «climate» where the AGW «problem» is still unresolved.

The director of membership for INTO said that his organization was a regular attender at COP conferences where it hoped to persuade heads of government «to take more notice of the effects of climate change on cultural sustainability».

In August 2007 Cape Farewell began a three year artists residency at the Southbank Centre, where we operated as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives»

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's letter to investors in the company's IPO filing, had a somewhat political lean — it spoke of a global worldview — something that stands in contrast to the current isolationist climate — where «artists cross genres and cultural boundaries, creating ideas that propel society forward» and where «we're all part of a global network, building new connections, sharing new ideas, across cultures.»

Particularly where Indigenous peoples lands and waters are being targeted for climate change related market opportunities, and Indigenous cultural heritage and identity are at risk of being affected or damaged.

Twenty years from now it's a country that has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change around the world in the way we live and do business.