Sentences with phrase «environmental woes»

China World's 5th Largest in Wind Power It may come as a surprise, considering the how much comes out about China's environmental woes, but China has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world: just over 6 gigawatts.

When the world's environmental woes get you down, turn to Ecoholic — Canada's best resource for practical tips and products that help you do your part for the earth.

Last week, filmmaker Michael Moore implicated Toronto in Michigan's environmental woes, claiming that the city's garbage was ending up in the state's landfills.

For all our environmental woes, the U.S. is making progress in one exciting area: The word «compost» is becoming a household term, while more and more cities are starting to implement wide - scale composting programs.

But to Parker, those technologies — most of which focus on addressing climate change — are still just a sliver of the innovation needed to address the world's environmental woes.

There are a lot of simple non-tech solutions to our environmental woes that just don't seem to get the press time because they aren't the world's first, or groundbreaking discovery, or just interesting to debate.

Hemp is not a panacea for the world's social, economic, and environmental woes — no single crop can do that.

Inspired business leaders together possess the collective power to reverse our environmental woes in a way that governments can not.

Most responses to today's environmental woes aim to limit the impact of human activity by minimizing pollution and waste.

Palestinian artist Mohammed Abusal envisions an underground metro system to solve some of congested, polluted Gaza's environmental woes.

For all their environmental woes, most coal mines in the U.S. at least capture the methane released when the coal is mined.

This contrasts sharply with the steady increase in GDP per capita since then, and implies that social and environmental woes have outpaced the growth of monetary wealth.

Themes of sustainability, reduced meat consumption, over-population, capitalist greed and improving women's rights have become common currency since Ehrlich was making headlines in the 1970s, but this is no old - school tale of environmental woe.

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Scrutiny into Scott Pruitt's ethics woes intensified Wednesday as a growing group of lawmakers» staff dug through reams of documents connected to the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's pricey travel and extensive security team.

The government has previously been at pains to emphasise its green credentials, though environmental issues have recently taken a backseat in the wake of the country's economic woes.

Everyone in Logan Lucky is impacted by the region's economic woes and environmental degradation: the drinking water makes people sick; there aren't enough police to enforce the speed limit; and ex-miners have to drive across state lines just to find work repairing sinkholes underneath a racetrack.

Under the headline «Holidays in Hell: Bali's Ongoing Woes» (1 April 2011), Time magazine depicted Bali as a resort island overwhelmed by environmental problems, including uncollected rubbish everywhere, overflowing sewage plants, and rivers that flush trash into the sea at its most famous beaches.

But I see declining utility for the framing notions of those days — «woe is me» and «shame on you» — whether in songs or environmental campaigns.

But we're in total sync on most points, particularly in the value of focusing less on the «woe is me, shame on you» approach to pursuing environmental progress and more on building environmental understanding, engagement and the capacity to make a difference.

They are both important figures in examining the evolution of the environmental movement as it confronts a century in which mainstay messages such as «woe is me» and «shame on you» will have ever less relevance (BP drills, we consume; who's the bad guy?)

Over all, «Bill Nye's Global Meltdown» is a welcome and entertaining departure from the longstanding stream of woe and shame dominating environmental filmmaking in recent years.

While it's tempting for us TreeHuggers to give all the credit to recent innovations in green technology, victories on the environmental policy front and a growing divestment movement — all of which are no doubt contributing to the industry's woes — Stevens says the issues that BP, Exxon and the like face are more fundamental, and a lot more deeply seated than these relatively new challenges.

You don't have to go very far in environmental circles to start hearing that our soil and water woes are due to irresponsible agricultural practices, and that old habits and attitudes and practices among ranchers and farmers are a big part of the problem.

The government has also approved at least nine large - scale projects that would turn coal into synthetic natural gas (SNG), a strategy that may help ease China's air pollution woes but create more environmental problems than it solves.

Though I've got to roll my eyes a bit at Monsieur Vie's own sense of the scale of the current economic woes — the crisis is affecting and is going to affect millions more than «a few people» — his larger point that the environmental crisis and its global implications can not be allowed to take a backseat to the economic one in global agendas is valid.

As long as the specter of social anger related to economic woes is greater than that related to environmental complaints, the government is going to focus on the economy.