Sentences with phrase «environmental challenge of our time»

So is birth control policy and access the answer to the environmental challenges of our time?

We've long believed that addressing consumerism is a key tenet of living sustainably and addressing the environmental challenges of our times.

The sooner it is upheld by the courts, the quicker we can meet and overcome the greatest environmental challenge of our time.

We need more strong members in Congress standing shoulder to shoulder with the growing grassroots movement across the country that is fighting for real changes — ones that rise to meet the greatest environmental challenges of our time.

Climate change is the most pressing environmental challenge of our time, and it is already taking a heavy toll on our communities and our economy.

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«The challenge of feeding growing populations healthily while minimising environmental damage - particularly as food and fuel prices continue to rise - should remind governments that this is not a time to step away from tackling our food system,» he said.

Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has been threatening the State in the last sixteen years was receiving federal government's attention for the first time.

Yet Franz Litz, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, said the governor must go through a new rulemaking process with the state Department of Environmental Protection that could take time and prompt legal challenges.

«They assume that most of the time [a human test] is going to work out in their favor, and if it doesn't, they can stop the study,» says Richard Wiles, a senior vice president of the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., which has challenged the ethics of human testing.

The report, «Health in times of uncertainty: Burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990 - 2013,» also notes environmental challenges in the region.

So for the first time, you can really start to get the tangible representation of the enormity and the complexity of the challenges facing environmental justice communities.

Sensing and metrology in the presence of environmental noise represents a considerable challenge because the noise limits the observation time and hence the achievable precision.

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Course aims and links to learning Randall Williams, in his summary of outdoor learning research «Time for Change», shows that there is now clear and demonstrable evidence that challenging outdoor activities and environmental studies contribute towards a range of societal targets across education, health, anti-social behaviour and community cohesion.

That's a tall order, but is essential learning for students coming of age at a time of daunting challenges — social, political, economic, and environmental — and also remarkable opportunities.

While there is an emerging consensus that a broader range of skills are necessary to face economic, environmental, technological, political and social challenges of our time, the question of how specifically to develop such skills has received less attention.

That new environmental challenge alone added another layer of challenge, as I not only had to pay way more attention to the level as it was shifting and changing, but also had to be attentive to the timing and precision needed to make it through these more challenging obstacles.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

«The greatest challenge facing Kosovo — which declared independence from Serbia two weeks ago — may not be opposition from Russia and Serbia, but may come from Western environmental groups opposed to mining what The New York Times on March 5 called the nation's «vast amount of minerals.»

This reflects, perhaps, the deeper challenge facing those trying to make global warming the single - topic environmental issue of our time.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, said: «This new innovation centre will bring together great minds from a variety of disciplines to lead the international effort to tackle environmental change and demonstrate the value of research collaboration in solving some of the greatest challenges of our time.»

Along the way, facing seemingly overwhelming challenges at times and learning invaluable lessons, the design team worked diligently with its project partners to advance the environmental rigors of the building industry.

«The main challenge to rational planning for flood risk in the country is that private property rights trump even modest limitations on floodplain development,» Nicholas Pinter, a professor of geology and environmental resources and policy at Southern Illinois University, told the Times.

Once he got past the initial shock of seeing the drained marshes for the first time, Alwash took on the seemingly impossible challenge of bringing environmental protection to the forefront of a nation focused on restoring peace and rebuilding infrastructure.

At the present time, it is impossible to gauge the true environmental impact and toxicity of the built environment due to a lack of product - level information, although the Living Building Challenge continues to shine a light on the need for transformative industrial practices.

Recently, the New York Times hosted a conference that gathered a range of panelists, from environmental activists to energy industry insiders, to address challenges and opportunities in meeting our current and future energy needs.

One of the biggest challenges for hurricane modeling is creating a model that can accurately depict the large - scale, environmental flow of the atmosphere that is largely responsible for steering the hurricane, while at the same time representing the finer scale details of the inner core region that determine the intensity of the storm.

â $ œFuture challenges for conserving polar bears and their Arctic habitat will be greater than at any time in the past because of the rapid rate at which environmental change appears to be occurring.

As the New York Times reported, «The environmental group is also working with Steven C. Wofsy, a professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard, and his colleagues to address the daunting technology challenge of creating an infrared spectrometer that can detect methane plumes on the Earth's surface.»

As we try to figure out how to reverse this defeat, films like Flow will help inform public consciousness of the need to do so.But as is the case after seeing many (perhaps too many, of late) environmental documentaries, I also wished that the film had had fewer talking heads (especially white male radically professorial ones — and I say that as a white male radical former professor), less of an impulse to be comprehensive (when you try for the universal all the time, you often lose the specific), and more of a narrative focus on particular responses (successful or not) to particular challenges.

In this sweeping town hall meeting moderated by New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, pioneering scientists presented research at the vanguard of solar, wind, geothermal and algae / biofuel energy, while conservationists and high - level policy - makers provided additional perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by this urgent global problem.

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This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer.

Appearing for the first time, Loretta Hughes of Exit Realty Fusion in Regina challenged franchisees and sales associates to embrace environmental initiatives in real estate.