Sentences with phrase «environmental changes we're seeing»

Not exact matches

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

You are directly affected by * soemone * having knowledge of evolution when you consume all agricultural products (meat, veggies, fruits), go to the doctor, see a geneticist for counseling before having a child, take medication, or are impacted by poilicies concerning environmental change, which is a driver for forcing adaptation vs extinction.

I hope to see you at my Food Matters Live seminar on 24th November, when I will be examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.

If your child continues to struggle with falling asleep after you make environmental changes, you should bring this to the attention of his pediatrician, and possibly consider seeing a specialist in childhood sleep disorders.

Deanna, who writes the blog Crunchy Chicken, Putting the Mental into Environmental pulls no punches, getting straight to a serious point and problem facing climate change action the world over... instead of action we see too much apathy.

A kind of thing we see in climate change and other environmental issues.

These findings further extend the association between intraneuronal aluminum and NFT formation and support the hypothesis that environmental factors are related to the neurodegenerative changes seen in the Chamorro population.

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

The environmental changes in the last 20 years have seen increases in the human environment of petro - chemicals — air transport - quadrupling of motor vehicles, insecticides and rises in background electro - magnetic - field, and so on.»

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

For their study, published Nov. 8, 2016, in Environmental Research Letters, the researchers first analyzed vegetation cover data for the months leading up to the storm to see if the Syrian conflict had really changed the land cover that much.

'' So this process is very useful because you can adapt to these huge seasonal changes in environmental color and continue to see and discriminate between colors accurately.»

«The coolest thing from an environmental perspective is that we can ask whether diet can influence this epigenetic process,» say Lanlan Shen of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, whose group has developed a way to direct where methylation occurs, allowing them to show that epigenetic changes can trigger tumours (see main story).

If macroevolution really is an extrapolation of natural selection and adaptation, we would expect to see environmental change driving evolutionary change.

«Once you dramatically change the climate and change water patterns, as is now seen in the Three Gorges region,» he says, «you change a lot of environmental variables.

«It's the most profound environmental change I've seen in my entire career, and nobody saw it coming,» says Thomas E. Lovejoy, a biologist and president of the H. J. Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, D.C.

Bob Doppelt, executive director of the Oregon - based Resource Innovation Group, who pitched the summit idea to the Council on Environmental Quality this week, said that whether the White House chooses that option or another, he's seeing a significant change in attitude and approach from the administration in this term.

In particular, the team wanted to see if separate episodes of extinction that happened during the long period of recovery were driven by episodes of ocean anoxia and other environmental changes.

Snazzy online calculators and mapping tools that accompany the new model enable users to tweak a number of variables, including gas prices and environmental costs, and see how the nation's energy future might change, at the level of individual counties.

You suggest that activists saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback» from the other side.

«What I am seeing in sub-Saharan Africa are very complex patterns in which environmental change is but one of several causal factors.»

«For them, the global phenomenon of climate change very clearly affects these bigger picture environmental things, so they have the most pronounced worry, because they already see it everywhere.

SHI allows researchers to view minute differences between otherwise identical nanoparticles and see how they react in response to light and environmental changes.

Is it possible that we can see epigenetic changes in the human brain because of exposure to environmental toxins?

Even if you're not intending to, you could be overwhelming your skin: The average woman uses 12 different products with 168 unique ingredients every day, according to research from the Environmental Working Group in Washington D.C.. All that on top of the usual stressors — pollution, hormonal changes, anxiety — and it's no wonder derms are seeing an increase in sensitive skin complaints such as breakouts, redness, rashes, and extreme dryness.

A pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks him to counsel her husband, an environmental activist who sees no point in bringing an innocent life into a world already doomed to a fiery climate - change - induced death.

With the tempo cooled, director David Yates (back for his third film) and screenwriter Steve Kloves pore over the nuances of character and environmental changes, delighting in the opportunity to kick the kids out of Hogwarts (nowhere to be seen in this installment) and into the treacherous Muggle world, staging much of the action in outdoor locations that open up the scope of the series.

The benefits of embedding an environmental behaviour change programme into an empowering project for school children are ample and through GAP's experience, we've seen the most successful outcomes delivered where students are encouraged to own the process from beginning to end and develop the necessary tools to reach their goals.

We would certainly have liked to see more focus being put on social development and environmental education in the curriculum changes, for example.

I hope you will also begin to look at seeing some environmental variables / tools which can help more students and older students have more hope for changing and improving their lives.

The school has seen a sharp increase in student attendance since making some environmental changes.

* See a Service Advisor or Sales Professional for Free Enrollment while visiting us here at Loganville Ford Oil change and service includes basic oil and filter change, tire pressure check, basic fluids check, synthetic - blend oil only, diesel and full - synthetic extra, plus all taxes and applicable and required environmental, shop and disposal fees

No remedy has yet been brought up regarding Canadian Volkswagen dealerships, but according to a report from Automotive News Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada are «actively investigating» specific Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche diesels to see if those automakers are in breach of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Emily Seen, a special assistant in the office of the special envoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate change.

But those ideas vary: 53 % view it as investing in companies that are likely to be more profitable because they are proactive in preparing for environmental and social changes while 36 % see it as focusing on companies because they are best - in - class when it comes to environmental or social issues or how the company is managed.

As Marks sees it, «Any despair over impending catastrophic environmental change evoked by [the work]... is balanced by a full - out sense of wonder and possibility.»

«The Past» examines man's relationship with nature as seen from an artistic and historical perspective, «The Present» looks at the status of nature here and now, and «The Future» explores the artistic reaction to environmental changes.

To only observe either Time Landscape or Paradise as a hologram of what once existed before, or as an environmental life - raft within the tumult of urbanization, would represent a failure to see the works as the progressive, evolving landscapes that they are, and the impetus for change that they spark.

China seems to see the overall effect of Arctic climate change as more of a beckoning economic opportunity than a looming environmental crisis.

It would enable us to see how the changes in the environment affect the number of birds and their nestlings,» Karen Aghababyan, senior avian researcher at American University of Armenia's Acopian Environmental Research Center, the group behind the project, told ArmeniaNow.

His administration — with help from Republicans in Congress — has often targeted environmental rules it sees as overly burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, including major Obama - era policies aimed at fighting climate change.»

But the talk about water withdrawal is genuine, even if like other long - time - coming environmental and climate changes, the river will see plenty of seasonal ups and downs before and end comes.

I'll also quote some social scientists who specialize in environmental risk and response who see little hope that heat waves will be the element that prompts citizens to support a strong climate bill or change behaviors in ways that cut combustion of fossil fuels.

Where a global threshold is unknown or lacking, there is no scientifically robust way of specifying such a boundary — determining a limit along a continuum of environmental change becomes a matter of guesswork or speculation (see e.g. Bass 2009; Nordhaus et al 2012).

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

That model has worked for other environmental problems, most notably the Montreal Protocol reducing ozone - damaging chemicals, but it is badly suited to climate change, which is better seen as a problem of economics, infrastructure, and innovation.

So many times environmental education focuses heavily or exclusively on scientific knowledge acquisition, and it's encouraging to see that changing.

There's an enormous amount that can be done to address these threats — that's why it's important that we recognize these issues and develop science - based plans of action,» said Dr. Myers, «We are already seeing suffering due to global environmental change.