Sentences with phrase «environmental perspective in»

In past articles I have shown that boxed beverages have their advantages and are indeed better from an environmental perspective in the case of wine.

However current institutions should also focus on creating local equity, having a developmental and environmental perspective in terms of investments and operations as a core business model.

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A recent study in Sweden titled «The relation between office type and workplace conflict: A gender and noise perspective» and published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, looked at the data of 5,229 employees who participated in the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health.

It offers a specialty in global energy management and sustainability, which encourages students to view the industry from political, environmental and cultural perspectives, in addition to teaching the fundamentals.

In addition, we can provide related environmental services like radon and termite testing which can help you gain an overall perspective of your property.

Her chapter on the early history of South Korea's nuclear energy industry has been also published in an edited volume, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and Africa.

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.»

Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

My aims are (a) to review the major movements that have emerged recently in environmental philosophy, (b) to suggest some of the implications of these movements for creation consciousness, and (c) to show how process theology provides a perspective for integrating the truths of these movements, thereby encouraging creation consciousness.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

The one perspective I missed in the symposium (except for the passing dismissal by Harold O. J. Brown of the «population control establishment») was the view of global environmental and ecological thinkers on the subject of contraception.

The process starts with the multitude of environmental objects awaiting unification in a fresh perspective, moves through stages of partial integration, and concludes as a fully determinate synthesis, effected by a concrescence of feelings.

He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the author of several books, including The Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems from an Orthodox perspective.

This event will bring a new perspective to the table, in looking at both the environmental and nutritional aspects of dairy in conjunction...

The team's findings on arsenic in foods containing OBRS were published Thursday in Environmental Health Perspectives, the online peer - reviewed open access journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science.

Meanwhile, staff from the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, including our six Local Engagement Officers, continue to work hard to strengthen relationships with a range of people living in and working in the Basin, to ensure diverse perspectives are included as part of environmental watering planning anEnvironmental Water Office, including our six Local Engagement Officers, continue to work hard to strengthen relationships with a range of people living in and working in the Basin, to ensure diverse perspectives are included as part of environmental watering planning anenvironmental watering planning and management.

Another powerful study published in 2003 in Environmental Health Perspectives evaluated the levels of pesticide metabolites in the urine of two groups of children.

One study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that plastic products advertised as BPA - free still leached chemicals with estrogenic activity — and some of these chemicals were even more potent than BPA.

The study is posted on the Environmental Health Perspectives site, and is available for free in full in pdf format.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradatioIn addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradatioin Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

Most plastic items leach chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen into food products, even if they don't contain BPA, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives, reports NPR.

Suzanne will set the stage by talking about the changed media environment from her perspective as an experienced political communicator, I'll discuss the ways nonprofits can prepare to take advantage of new outlets both in the short and long term, and Kira will talk about several specific examples from her work at Environmental Defense Fund.

«From a logistics perspective, the benefit of upgrading the tolls goes beyond even the environmental impacts, eliminating back - ups and allowing trucks to pass more freely through the region,» Turner said in a follow - up email.

Radha Muthiah will provide the perspective of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a nongovernmental organization that addresses both public health and environmental impact in its mission.

But men from the three cities had higher sperm counts — ranging from 38 % to 75 % higher — than men from Columbia, the team reports in the 11 November online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives.

«This suggests substantial nonfood exposure, accumulation in body tissues such as fat, or both,» the researchers wrote in their paper released today by Environmental Health Perspectives.

Up to now, the federal government has failed to support the research needed to prepare for the health consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United States.

Of the 2,199 children between the ages of 6 and 15 included in the new study, 12.6 percent had a learning disability and 10.5 percent were enrolled in special education classes, according to the study, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives last month.

The same researchers also reported a link between another long - banned pollutant, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and implantation failure, in a paper published online in Environmental Health Perspectives in August.

Two chemicals in receipt paper that replace the toxic compound bisphenol A, or BPA, are just as capable of soaking into the human body as their predecessor, researchers report August 25 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

The study was published in July in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Danish researchers, with colleagues in the United States and Taiwan, published a study last year in Environmental Health Perspectives looking at people with and without Parkinson's and their exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a marker for traffic - polluted air.

Anniston residents with diabetes had much higher PCBs levels in their bodies — on average 27 percent more — than those who did not have the disease, according to the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in May.

In 2016 in Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementiIn 2016 in Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementiin Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

The same link was found for levels of the chemicals in the men as adults, according to the study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Sixteen of the 30 had no known hormonal activity until now, while there was some previous evidence for the other 14, according to the study, published online last Thursday in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

A study published in January in Environmental Health Perspectives reported that daily deaths over a decade in metropolitan Boston peaked on days when concentrations of three common air pollutants were at their highest, even though those levels would currently satisfy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«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).

«The risk calculator does not take into account treatment or other potentially supportive environmental factors that may reduce risk; this is a direction for future research,» Seidman said, adding that the power of the calculator lies in putting symptoms in perspective for patients and their families.

Because large animals play an important role in the ocean food web, «a threat profile focused on the largest species is particularly concerning from an ecological perspective,» said lead author Jonathan Payne, an associate professor in the school of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

«To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of an outbreak of childhood lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining,» the team, directed by lead experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

«From a legal perspective, it's wonderful to have an international tribunal recognize that environmental damage is a significant component of armed conflict,» says Carl Bruch of the Environmental Law Institute in Wasenvironmental damage is a significant component of armed conflict,» says Carl Bruch of the Environmental Law Institute in WasEnvironmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C.

The study will appear in the November issue of Environmental Health Perspectives.

Children's concentrations were more than 50 percent higher than the amounts found in adolescents and adults, according to the study by Barr and colleagues published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on Feb. 3.

The most dramatic effects were a nearly 2 mmHg rise in diastolic (the low number) blood pressure when the odor was rated an 8 compared with no odor, and a nearly 3 mmHg rise in systolic (the high number) blood pressure when hydrogen sulfide concentrations reached 10 parts per billion compared with no detectable level, the researchers reported last week in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Results appear online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

When the kids ate only organic fruits, veggies, juice, pasta, cereal and salsa, the levels of several organophosphate pesticides in their bodies plummeted (as measured by urine analysis), scientists reported in 2006 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

We are also able to access the scale of the most successful renewable platform in the world — from an environmental and cost perspective — Brazilian sugarcane.