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By promoting social and ecological sustainability in all our festival operations, and forging relationships with organizations and individuals who have similar goals Planet In Focus is walking the talk on the environment.»

The point of this web site is quite specific — to discuss environmental and ecological sustainability in the coffee industry and highlight companies that have strong records in this regard which provide the background and information so like - minded consumers can make a choice based on those preferences.

Important to AAA inspectors are ecological sustainability in an establishment's approach, as well as the use of noted technology trends such as easy to use alarm clocks with device docks and device mirroring panels.

Birch and Cobb propose that to live out such an ethic one must act personally and politically to promote two complementary ideals: ecological sustainability in our relations to the rest of nature, and social justice among humans.

Not exact matches

The objective of the EEZ Act is the familiar sustainability rhetoric — enable economic growth while maintaining ecological integrity — but it is tricky business because these are large capital - intensive projects in remote locations that bring environmental risks that are considered low probability with severe consequences.

The primary meaning, in contemporary discourse, is ecological sustainability.

Even those in the WTO who recognize that ecological sustainability is important do not want responsibility for it.

To enforce, in the name of ecological sustainability, policies that violate the sense of justice of the people involved introduces an element that is very likely to make those policies unsustainable.24

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

Still others have noted the impact of globalization on the environment and have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

Many also have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

Participants (ages 18 - 28) spend their mornings working and learning important practical life skills in regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and ecological sustainability.

Continued research and innovation is needed to improve production techniques and yields, the ecological sustainability of organic agriculture, and the social responsibility and fairness in its value chains.

The Vantra philosophy is to make a difference in the world by bringing together ecological sustainability, compassionate lifestyles, harmonious social life, ancient dietary principles and advanced modern nutrition.

The occurrence of an extreme ecological disturbance, Hurricane Mitch, provided an opportunity to assess a decade of sustainable land management practices in Nicaragua and to see if the practices were actually leading to higher levels of sustainability.

The goal of the Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality is to show the link between best social, ecological and economic sustainability practices and quality in the cup.

Examining the interplay between urban development and water development in Arizona, Kupel argues that the culture that settlers brought with them from the humid Midwest and East proved more important than aridity, environmental sustainability, and differences in ecological settings.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

«Future challenges in Australia will be to protect a marine environment that contains growing humpback whale populations and to develop alternative approaches to ecological sustainability,» said Dr. David Johnston of Duke University USA, co-author of the study.

Dr. Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, said:

We need in our schools to excavate the relationship between capitalism and ecological sustainability.

Ashwani Vasishth (USA) is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, and directs the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College and is also engaged with urban ecology projects from within a social - ecological - systems perspective, at http://sustainablejc.org.

SDGs pursue an ecological sustainability that requires deep and paradigmatic changes in the interdependent relationships that humans have with natural ecosystems.

The ability of communities and humanity as a whole, to respond, adapt, and sustain the resilience needed to maintain ecological sustainability and equity in the face of external and internal forces of change, including through respecting conditions, like diversity, enabling the resilience of nature.

6 These principles are adapted from the «People's Sustainability Treaty on Radical Ecological Democracy» proposed for the Rio +20 process by several civil society groups (http://sustainabilitytreaties.org/draft-treaties/radical-ecological-democracy/), in turn based on Kothari 2009 and Shrivastava and Kothari 2012.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

Most schools need to drastically alter their approach to designing the school day, if they are ever to achieve a consensus amongst students that there is genuine value in such things as Ecological sustainability.

CREECS engages family and community in the commitment to nurture the whole child in preparation for a global society by emphasizing ecological conservation and sustainability.

With this understanding in mind, Bill explores the moral norms of ecological and social sustainability.

We find that ecological aspects and questions of sustainability are central, be it an orientation on recycling, as in both Italian factories, the change from industrial glue and solvents to organic cleaners in Vio.Me.

He is an advocate for the fine arts and ecological sustainability, and he is currently based in Chicago.

Ecological citizenship is the framework in which we can see both the need for individual responsibility and the absurdity in laying the onus of responsibility on the individual, both the ecology that sustains communities and the sustainability demanded from communities in order to maintain a balanced ecology.

Environmental sustainability of the project in relation to massive resettlement and ecological damage is to be focused in this paper.

I think the proper goal is summed up in Professor Schor's remark, ``... [we] should opt for a new economic and social vision based on quality of life, rather than quantity of stuff, with reduced work time and ecological sustainability at its core.»

In 2007, The Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) pilot tested four NWEI discussion courses as part of its college semester program in Iceland focused on a theme of «sustainability through community.&raquIn 2007, The Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) pilot tested four NWEI discussion courses as part of its college semester program in Iceland focused on a theme of «sustainability through community.&raquin Iceland focused on a theme of «sustainability through community.»

In recent years, his work has expanded into the intersection of (eco) design, economics and policy Through his teaching, talks and his blog, EcoOptimism, he explores the synergistic, win - win solutions to our concurrent ecological and economic problems: the solutions that lead us not just to sustainability, but to flourishing.

In such a situation, inhabitants of the global North can and should opt for a new economic and social vision based on quality of life, rather than quantity of stuff, with reduced work time and ecological sustainability at its core.

«Our participation in the EcoChallenge is important because it helps us all to take personal action, be mindful of our ecological footprint, and conversationally engage our peers, colleagues and community on sustainability issues,» said Paul Shrivastava, Penn State's chief sustainability officer and director of the Sustainabilsustainability issues,» said Paul Shrivastava, Penn State's chief sustainability officer and director of the Sustainabilsustainability officer and director of the SustainabilitySustainability Institute.

Places for urban agriculture, away from park and recreation areas, in cities, contribute to economic and ecological sustainability, as... Read article

If this was a scientific imperative and if means of addressing climate change had anything whatsoever to do with true ecological sustainability we would be carefully implementing strategies that are known to work and environmental concerns / ecological balance would be foremost in our decision making process.

It addresses the economic and social costs of «business as usual» growth in Asia and the Pacific, discusses unexplored opportunities for increasing sustainability and ecological inefficiencies, and analyse the role of the various actors.

She is currently a graduate student at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, pursuing her MS in Leadership for Sustainability, with a concentration in Ecological Economics.

And Yale's own Gus Speth questioned whether capitalism itself was compatible with ecological sustainability and suggested a radical shift in values was required to deal with the problem.

The subsecretary of Environmental Management and Green Growth of Nariño, Ricardo Mora, reached out to Global Footprint Network for technical support about using the Ecological Footprint and other sustainability metrics to advance strategic initiatives in the Nariño province.

Amazingly, with an enrollment of only about 800 students (for the record — that's roughly the same size as my high school), the college offers majors in Environmental Studies, Renewable Energy & Ecological Design, Wilderness & Outdoor Therapy, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Production, Animal Conservation & Care and numerous minor options in the environmental and sustainability space.

In this sense, Speth's arguments are not far from that of the socialist movement of the twenty - first century, which is aimed at the core values of social justice and ecological sustainability.

Should the reader be confident in this assessment or are Ecological Footprint methods and results adequate to guide sustainability policy?

Founded in 2001 by the White Dog Foundation, SBN is made up of local business people, professionals, social entrepreneurs, investors, not - for - profit leaders, and government representatives who collectively work to ensure the region's economic vitality, sustainability, and ecological health.

Kirsten Balding at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is a huge advocate of using Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint calculator to teach students about sustainability.

In M. Wackernagel and Alex Long (editor), 1999, «Ecological Economics Forum: Why Sustainability Analyses Must Include Biophysical Assessments».