Sentences with phrase «damaging practice»

Far from being a rare occurrence or emergency situation, this heavily damaging practice has become an accepted industry norm.

As it happens Citigroup might Big - Green, but they are also Big - Ungreen too, they were one of «the top providers of funding for the most damaging practices of the U.S. coal industry last year.

One of the most damaging practices in education policy, in Connecticut and nationwide, is the misuse of standardized tests for purposes for which they were never designed.

During this process, Ismawati succeeded in moving the bill away from environmentally damaging practices such as incineration.

We will move from ecologically damaging practices toward a «sustainable development» that minimizes, if not halts, ecological harm and reduces levels of material consumption.

Friends of the Earth welcome the European Commission proposal to ban damaging practices in the food supply chain to give farmers and small businesses more certainty.

We hope the national spotlight on Chicago's schools refocuses the nation's attention on building connections between schools, parents and communities, backing research - based reforms and beginning the important pushback on damaging practices such as high - stakes testing, school closings, and flawed teacher accountability measures.

All of agriculture needs to make a big shift in its methods in order to correct its many damaging practices including increasing atmospheric CO2, cruelty to animals, and feeding low levels of antibiotics which produce resistant human disease organisms.

Instead of creating one more body for business - as - usual, governments, funding agencies, and international organizations should be taking bold action: committing to shift resources away from climate - damaging practices of chemical - intensive industrial agriculture and meat production and towards investment in and commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, and support to small - scale food producers.

The cane is never burned or sprayed, a damaging practice to the cane and the field and lethal to the local wildlife trapped in the fields.

«Dumping in Long Island Sound is archaic and the damaging practice should be stopped.

The report outlines how a mandatory Statewide Interdistrict Open Enrollment Program would work to end the damaging practice of assigning students to schools based solely on where their families can afford to live.

Overfishing and pollution have decimated once abundant stocks of fish and other marine life, and the damaging practices continue to this day despite international agreements outlawing them.

As the Academy of Culinary Nutrition states, «these leaders champion whole food eating, challenge corporations to change their damaging practices, educate us about nutrition and how food affects us, raise awareness about the link between our food choices and the environment, and more.»

While there are sustainable versions available, the movement needs more momentum to really take hold and end these damaging practices.

This mandate contradicts everything we know about child development and forces kindergarten teachers to engage in damaging practices.

At Arch Coal, the country's second largest coal producer, citizens will ask the company to end the damaging practice of mountaintop removal for coal extraction; and, in the immediate future, spare the historic Blair Mountain from destruction.

Members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing are therefore now resorting to formal means to alter ResearchGate's damaging practices.