Sentences with phrase «demand on nature»

OAKLAND, CA, Sept. 4, 2017 — Global Footprint Network and Schneider Electric signed a global partnership to engage people around the world in moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day — the date when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year.

In less than eight months, humanity has used up nature's budget for the entire year, with carbon sequestration making up more than half of the demand on nature.

These accounts show each country's Ecological Footprint, or overall demand on nature, and the biocapacity of nature to regenerate.

If it is true that humanity's demand on nature has exceeded the capacity of complex ecosystems to continue providing environmental services and their corresponding natural resources, it is also undeniable that there is an ongoing revolution of values and new lifestyle impositions.

A personal Earth Overshoot Day earlier than August 2 means your demand on nature is higher than the world average.

To support our demands on nature, we have been liquidating resource stocks and allowing carbon dioxide to accumulate in the atmosphere.

The paradox was that nuclear energy, in several fundamental ways, significantly reduces humankind's demands on nature.

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CH: The nature of the workforce is totally changing - especially with the rise of a lot of on - demand companies.

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IT Business Times» two - part series on Ray Zinn and the changing nature of Silicon Valley, the semiconductor industry and how CEOs deal with activist investor demands.

The nature of modern technology demands that all services offered by binary options brokers and indeed all binary options players are made available on multiple devices with the same level of quality and accessibility.

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

This truth makes demands on me though its institutional nature has not been decreed by me.

But it was due also to the extraordinary demands placed on the listener by the complex structure and contemplative nature of Bruckner's symphonies.

A year and a half ago, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York began a program of adult education, offering classes on topics as demanding and varied as «The Nature of God the Father» and «Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of the Protestant Tradition.»

Our relation to the Eternal Thou is perhaps best understood from the nature of the demand which one person makes on another if the two of them really meet.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

This view is accompanied by the expectation that the benefits of civilization will continue to accrue, as gifts of nature, without any demand on the energies of men for their creation and maintenance.

On the principle of control and direction, nature demands that, when a creature emerges with a brain too powerful for the environment to hold in meaningful stimulation and coordinated response, something new must be done.

To counter this tendency we may on the other hand attempt to develop a more critical, descriptive, naturalistic account of the relation between mind and nature, thereby avoiding the purely logical demands of system and the self - serving rule of reason.

There were real powers at work on men as they contemplated the majesty of nature or felt the impulse towards tribal unity or responded to the demand for moral improvement.

There were three main limitations on early Hebrew morals: the field of ethical obligation was tribally constricted; within the tribal circle certain classes were denied full personal rights; and the nature of moral conduct was interpreted in such external terms of custom and ritual as to make small demand on internal insight and quality.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

Yet conservation of nature at its heart is the notion that humans must reduce their demands on the environment in favor of other species.

However, the situation by its very nature fails to make the same demands on the worshiper; hence something is lost in its fruits.

Unimaginative people — and to talk about the feelings of atoms does make demands on imagination — are not going to understand nature.

Easy to locate in the writings of the interpreters Nobo associates with the traditional approach, it appears, for example, on page 164 in A Christian Natural Theology, where John B. Cobb claimed that «it is demanded by the principle of universal relativity that just as God in his consequent nature prehends us, so also we prehend God's consequent nature.

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

Isn't this what is implied in the notion of gender: the refusal of otherness, of difference, and the demand to take on sexual behaviors independent of sexual difference, the first gift of nature?

He proposes instead that the central demand of our time is to use the technology that is now on the horizon to transform nature in ways that enhance the global structures of a «graceful, cosmopolitan civilization able to serve the whole of humanity.»

This paper examines the nature of the population challenge globally, the effect of population growth on food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the potential benefits — in...

«Keep the driver in the bag,» Golf Channel analyst Nick Faldo said during a Tuesday conference call about the penal nature of hitting drives off line on the demanding Stadium Course.

Steve Mellalieu, Professor in Sport Psychology and the Associate Dean for Research for the Cardiff School of Sport, notes that the nature of elite sport — specifically the intensive focus on training and performance and the eternal demand for complete commitment — means that players have little opportunity to contemplate what might lie beyond; Garner has confessed, «I never thought about what I'd do after playing.

With five tackles, four clearances and a take on, Arteta appeared to finally rise to the demanding nature of the Champions League last night.

Th this end, a group of lawyers, under the aegis of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, demanded the disclosure of the nature and content of the «security report», which the Senate relied on to reject the nomination of Magu.

On Thursday, Hain put down a parliamentary question for the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, demanding he «explain the nature and purpose of IRG Ltd».

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

As they stepped off their planes, the Westerners from groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature were second to none in their demands that the statements be a precursor to a full Forest Convention, with legal controls on the world's forests.

Mimicking Nature's photosynthesis in a process known as «artificial photosynthesis» would imply using a material that is able to store the electrons right after their light - induced generation and release them on demand.

But the variable nature of wind and solar energy can cause problems with matching supply to demand — problems that would be greatly eased if only we had a really good way of storing electricity on an industrial scale.

Corollary studies focused on the mechanisms that regulate brain endocannabinoid signaling have provided critical in vivo evidence of an «on demand,» activity - dependent nature of endocannabinoid influence.

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

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Researchers have previously proposed that the intense stop - and - start nature of football as well as the physical demands of competitive participation, such as rapid weight gain, could play roles in making football distinctive in its effects on cardiovascular health.

Books are coaches, nature provide remedies, Google is our assistant and YouTube is an on - demand visual demonstration.

Try these to meet your sweet tooth's demands: Honey — Made by nature, it has the added bonus that it is more slowly breaks down into the bloodstream and is actually easier on the stomach and aids digestion.