Sentences with phrase «environmental crisis»

In the face of environmental crisis, it has helped to nurture hundreds of new companies pursuing both alternative energy sources and new green technologies.

A state of global environmental crisis is defining our generation.

It is this runaway nature of global warming and it's devastating global impact that is making it the most pressing environmental crisis facing humanity today.

It also fails to speak to our current environmental crisis.

During the four years of this column, the world's inability to face up to the reality of the growing environmental crisis has become even more palpable.

He focuses on issues of waste and the larger environmental crisis through large - scale sculptures designed from trash.

It's a serious environmental crisis that our community, now and in the future, has to be deeply concerned about.

The American public will wake up to the current global oil and environmental crisis only after it's too late.

At the end of the last century, a great environmental crisis came from above in the form of acid rain.

If we address the climate crisis only through the transition to renewable energy sources we may not be able to provide solutions to the whole environmental crisis.

We are facing environmental crisis unless we change our ways.

There are a number of pressing considerations we must be making as we move to adapt the global energy mix to a world faced with numerous environmental crises.

The artists in this exhibition reflect on our current environmental crisis — economic, political and cultural, as well as ecological.

This is a point worth holding on to as we search for a response in the religions to our global environmental crisis.

There's no single, magic bullet that can solve the North American and global energy and environmental crisis facing all of us.

Now, Hoosick Falls, a town of some 4,000 people, is the site of one of New York's worst environmental crises in years.

«When it comes to reporting on environmental crises, which disproportionately burden people of color, we're somehow supposed to rely on all - white (or nearly all - white) newsrooms to report stories about communities they know very little about.

This Saturday night, May 30, the fundraising gala honors those who «demonstrate successful strategies for tackling current economic and environmental crises as part of the same problem.»

In addition to criminalizing personal drug use, cannabis prohibition deprives society of the industrial benefits of hemp at a time when we must make use of every ecologically responsible resource to provide materials and energy in the face of looming environmental crises,» said Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor.

A hallmark of Leonard's work with The Story of Stuff Project has been her keen recognition that solving environmental crises requires working across a wide range of movements to fix economic and political systems that are currently dominated by corporations at the expense of people's health.

Perhaps even more difficult, since the environmental bill from 200 years of unchecked of fossil fuel burning has finally come due and Obama will have to deal with the convergence of deep financial crisis and deep environmental crisis at the same time.

Known for classics like Rain Man, Sleepers, Good Morning, Vietnam, and Diner — not epic startle fests — Levinson got the idea for The Bay after being asked to direct a documentary about environmental crises facing the Chesapeake Bay.

Norway has rescued a UN scheme to set up an emergency response system for environmental crises.

- Margaret Atwood «With environmental crises facing the planet - climate change, ocean acidification and loss of biodiversity, to name a few - Suzuki says this is the time to act.

Dualistic deposits in Christian theology are themselves partly responsible for the feeling of cosmic homelessness that underlies our present environmental crisis.

While the dangers in Flint and Standing Rock eventually became major stories this year, they were not the only ones worthy of attention, and there are other environmental crises hurting communities of color that still need the support of media to amplify a harsh reality.

At Standing Rock, ND, like in Flint, an ongoing environmental crisis failed to get media attention until it began to escalate beyond the people of color it disproportionately affected.

I could be from Mars, this is critical, probably the worse environmental crisis in USA, yet it is ignored b / c India, Haiti, Egypt, want to keep breeding away w / out resources??

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

Théâtre National de Nice delivers Peer Gynt, complete with soundtrack by Iggy Pop; Schaubühne Berlin examines a contemporary environmental crisis in An Enemy of the People, and Belvoir Sydney places The Wild Duck in a 21st - century Australian setting.

The marginalised groups in their struggle for freedom and human dignity have discovered the close link between environmental crisis and exploitation: tribals, fishermen, landless people and women.

State lawmakers are poised to leave Albany in a few days without attempting to address one of the state's most significant environmental crises in years, one in which there is now substantiated proof that hundreds of people have a dangerous toxic chemical in their system.

It's one of the most significant environmental crises during his tenure as governor, and the Cuomo administration has been criticized for its slow response — for the better part of a year, the state Department of Health didn't act on concerns raised by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«We need to be honest, we have a growing environmental crisis unfolding and Amalgamated Bank will no longer sit on the sideline,» Keith Mestrich, president and CEO of the bank, said in a statement.

Director: Bong Joon - ho Why it's relevant: A clever take on the world's ever increasing environmental crisis.

First, climate change could exacerbate existing environmental crises.

The 1960s Italian group Arte Povera was the first art movement to confront environmental crisis.

Through a series of aerial photographs of the Mon - Valley - Braddock region, I came to know that DuBois» words resonate with the current environmental crisis along the Monongahela River in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

China's environmental crisis continues unabated due to corruption and lax regulation.