Sentences with phrase «environmental debate»

The question of hidden, and not so hidden, subsidies for oil, as well as coal, keeps coming up in environmental debates.

Most environmental debate of late, he said, has focused on protecting the physical environment — the climate, water supplies, air quality.

Several months ago we published the first in a series of reports on the influence industry plays on various environmental debates.

On the one hand, many such as Monbiot seem happy to throw around these claims about those on the wrong side of environmental debate being in hock to private interests.

«From environmental debates to employment concerns, and from fracking rights to the latest private equity transactions, The Burleson Blog focuses on energy matters, offering legal insight on the trends, business deals, legal decisions and breaking news affecting the energy industry.»

NORTH CREEK, N.Y. >> The last out - of - service rail cars, which sparked a heated environmental debate, have been removed from a remote line in the Adirondacks.

Special Issue Call for Papers Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal decisions.

Ditto for economist Lloyd Atkinson who brought a little sanity to the — pardon the pun — overheated environmental debate.

The shifting positions of scientists and pressure groups in environmental debates is illustrated further by comments by May and Krebs in the parliamentary event we started with.

But it's unfortunate that partisan politics has been introduced into the environmental debate.

If you're looking for eco friendly diapers, you'll soon find that the environmental debate is perhaps the most controversial of all of the discussions for cloth diapers.

Not that I care too much about getting into the environmental debate, but just to point out a few obvious things that people seem to forget... babies are PEOPLE just like the rest of us.

If you want to find out more about the environmental impact of cloth diapers, Eco-Friendly Diapers: Cloth vs Disposable can help you understand the environmental debate better.

The Zen of Population Mostly ignored in the environmental debates about population and consumption is that nearly all the world's nations agreed to an altogether different approach to the problem of growth 15 years ago, one that bases positive demographic outcomes on decisions individuals make in their own self - interest.

She has contributed to many publications, including international editions of Contemporary Photographers and Contemporary Masterpieces, and more recently, Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate.

Curved, bent, and unconventionally aestheticized, these aluminum sculptures, some of which are accentuated by oozing wax, move beyond sculpture to deliver commentary on consumerism, environmental debate (one of the photographs on view documents Climate March amidst Times Square, while others trace the artist's backyard in his Brighton Beach residence), and excess daily life generates.

The Tyler Prize, consisting of a $ 200,000 cash prize and a gold medal, honors exceptional foresight and dedication in the environmental sciences — qualities that mirror the prescience of the Prize's founders, John and Alice Tyler, who established it while the environmental debate was still in its infancy.

Nuclear power has become an obsession for the institute, a kind of signifier by which players in the environmental debate are allocated to the «good guys» box or the «bad guys» box.

In his remarks, Smith said conservatives should engage in the environmental debate and that «while we have a deep and important moral responsibility to care for God's creation, that this responsibility should be by extending the conservative institutions of liberty (private property, the rule of law, private action)-- not by joining the collectivist environmental parade.»

The news center is a special project of CFACT, a Washington, D.C. - based public policy organization that has been working since 1985 to infuse the environmental debate with a balanced perspective, and to promote market - based and safe technological solutions to various public - interest concerns,» Morano stated in the media release announcing the project.

ilimanjaro, the storied mountain that rises nearly four miles above the shimmering plains of Tanzania, is beginning to resemble the spotted owl — at least in the way it has become a two - sided icon in an environmental debate.

Meanwhile, the public climate change and environmental debate has been growing strong in the street.

I will come back to some of the points I've tried to raise here, because I think the accident in Fukushima has caused interesting things to fall out of the environmental debate.

His pleas to Obama comes in a discussion about whether the environmental debate in the US has become too partisan, with the belief that the Democrats are all in favour of change while the Republicans simply want to back big business and stop all environmental measures.

The concept of «standard of living» rarely enters the environmental debate except as frankly rather spurious claims about how much better our lives would be if we had greater access to more green space.

«This smearing of environmental groups, this undermining of the role of environmental organizations in the environmental debate, is blatant and aggressive and gratuitous,» says Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence.

The ultimate goal is the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles that emit only water and remove the vehicle from the environmental debate.

In the past few years, decoupling — breaking the link between economic growth and environmental impacts — has become the new catchword in environmental debates.

It brought the environmental debate to the national stage and inspired other rural communities to organize against illegal logging.

Strategic Use of the Rebellious Urge What worries me more, however, is the deliberate attempts by vested interests to frame the environmental debate in terms of freedom versus responsibility, or authoritarianism versus liberty.

First, the environmental debate is science - driven.

The shoestring voices in the environmental debate now belong to skeptical bloggers.

Croakey provides an informed voice to the health, equity and environmental debates, and is helping mobilise the necessary political and popular support for a radical break from the complacent and compartmentalized attitude that still dominates much of the political agenda.