Sentences with phrase «environmentalism at»

Really, it's an example of grassroots environmentalism at its best.In 1962, Senator Gaylord Nelson decided the environment needed to take a bigger priority in politics, so he convinced President Kennedy to do a national conservation tour.

Crony environmentalism at its finest.

At times, there may be good political reasons for fighting on the terrain of the economists, but environmentalism at a deeper level challenges the ethical principles that underlie prevailing attitudes to the natural world.

There, Sewell Chan just noted an intense discussion that took place Tuesday night as a panel explored environmentalism at the New York Public Library.

Not exact matches

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

Which is at least a bit strange, in that it was an artifact produced by the much - deplored military - industrial complex» the photographs of Planet Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo VIII on their Christmas 1968 circumnavigation of the moon» that gave the new environmentalism its icon and something of its emotional power.

Rubin, a professor of political science at Duquesne University, assesses environmentalism from the standpoint of liberal constitutionalism; he notes that major environmentalists aspire to transform every segment of human existence, from our economic transactions to our private lives.

I bet a lot of the doomsday crowd are the same kind of people who scoff at global warming, despise environmentalism, and support runaway militarism.

Today MYSA, which is owned and run by the youths themselves and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 and» 04, touches 25,000 young Kenyans at any given time with nested - in - sport programs in community building, health education and environmentalism.

By either copying Leftist environmentalism, or not talking about it at all, Conservatives have surrendered their natural territory - that of conservation.

The government - New Labour or the Tories if they get it - are getting extra money at the same time as putting people off environmentalism.»

Population growth, now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't - go - there zone of modern environmentalism and political discourse.

Former colleagues who credit him with being a wide - ranging visionary in the 1970s, at a time when «environmentalism was mostly about saving pandas,» as one described it, and remember him as a generous and encouraging mentor nonetheless often came to find him stubborn and inflexible in his convictions and often unwilling to gain from criticism.

Indeed, if environmentalism and customer service were their major concerns, manufacturers could have developed standard chargers long ago, because it hasn't been technical hurdles holding standardisation back, Richard Traherne, head of wireless at UK technology development firm Cambridge Consultants told New Scientist.

But it didn't keep him off the basketball court in the late 1960s, when environmentalism was leaping skyward and his sneakers squeaked as a freshman player at Brown University.

We research and choose our partnerships here at the kitchen table for quality, safety, efficacy, and environmentalism.

There are those brands who would attempt to position a plug - in hybrid SUV as some attempt at environmentalism or eco-mindedness.

The Chief Guest at the event, Dr. Isaac Kalua, founder of Green Africa Foundation, commended the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund for promoting a generation of young women who embrace the spirit of environmentalism as propagated by Wangari Maathai.

My own abiding interest in the study of peace and environmentalism began in the highlands of Kenya where I grew up, and was nurtured during my studies in the US and Germany, and teaching at the University of Nairobi.

Reva Prakash delivers a Seminar on, «Understanding environmentalism in the global south: analyzing select readings from Kenya on justice, equity and rights» at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies on Friday 8th May, 2015.

Summer Camp at the Crissy Field Center offers an experience full of fun and adventure — imbued with environmentalism and excitement for our national parks.

Chris Johanson's vivid, abstract paintings on scavenged wood hint at the artist's deep engagement with issues of environmentalism, pacifism, and anti-materialism.

The Unbearable Flatness of Being, her Working Artist Project solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, compresses issues of environmentalism, terror and tranquility into flat planes of cartoonish hyperreality.

The Unbearable Flatness of Being, her Working Artist Project solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, compresses issues of environmentalism, terror and tranquility into flat...

Two years ago — at the same event, but under much more pleasant conditions — I concluded that Earth Day was «about showing you care, finding community, and speaking out loud — it's the assertion that the values of environmentalism are important and those that hold them are not alone.»

At the time, it wasn't about environmentalism... it was about politics and both sides of the Cold War making sure the other didn't get an advantage.

Robert Verdi, echoing George Will's comment about «green trees with red roots,» seems to think that anti-capitalism is at the root of environmentalism, especially the concern for global warming.

David Roberts at Grist today posted on the need to move this sweeping global challenge out of the traditional niche of environmentalism.

Whatever you think of Mr. Crichton's writing on environmentalism and climate, I encourage you to read the 2005 speech at the preceding link and weigh in here on what he says.

If there was a lesson in the comparison, and if there is anything to the idea that environmentalism has become a state religion, then I regret to say that it's likely to be so for a very long time indeed, or at least until someone important shows up needing an officially non-sanctioned act.....

In the words of Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic magazine, the video was «a complete catastrophe for environmentalism.»

It is merely melding environmentalism with realism at a juncture when the climate can ill afford saying no to any solution.

And Monbiot is not the first to realise that environmentalism is better at alienating than encouraging people.

The video of the debate at last year's Battle of Ideas festival on the question «What is new environmentalism?»

«No matter the eco-cause — you can go back and look at overpopulation, you can go back and look at global cooling, global warming, species extinction, deforestation — all of these eco-scares, they all blame it on man, and the only way we can solve it is to give away our sovereignty and our freedom to the United Nations in the form of global governance,» Climate Depot editor Marc Morano told TNA, citing Czech Republic President Václav Klaus to point out that since the fall of the Soviet Union, «ambitious environmentalism» had become the greatest threat to freedom.

«I consider environmentalism and its currently strongest version — climate alarmism — to be, at the beginning of the 21st century, the most effective and, therefore, the most dangerous vehicle for advocating, drafting and implementing large scale government intervention and for an unprecedented suppression of human freedom,» he added.

In as far as this means anything at all (which is doubtful, given the breadth of the categories «climate science» and «environmentalism») I think it is deeply misleading.

This gives the lie to the claims that environmentalism is the continuation of anti-capitalism — there is clearly room for capitalists at the fair - trade, organic, global warming beano.

Accordingly, they tell the story backwards, from the present: environmentalism is at odds with conservative thinking; that Thatcher proposed «there is no such thing as society» and invented individualism; that such individualism is apart from, and opposed to global political environmentalism rather than essential to its thinking; and that climate change politics began in Magdalen College in 1978.

They are willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism, advocating expensive energy policies that increase poverty.

There's a great deal more at stake in the climate debate — and more specifically in the «post 2012 debate» — than can be accounted for with the categories of old - school environmentalism.

The idea, immortalised in Orwell's crack about vegetarians and sandal werarers, is that environmentalism is just an update of nineteenth century romanticism — a foolish fantasy at best and a middle class cause at worst.

For instance, my recent post at the Nottingham University's Making Science Public blog, drew attention from the 97 % - ers, not because they wanted to take issue with the argument, but because they wanted to sustain the notion of consensus according to their form of environmentalism.

We've often noted at «C3» that persons left - of - center have exhibited some incredibly anti-science attitudes in their approach to environmentalism, and especially the fear of CO2 emissions.

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

And the thing about that phenomenon is that it's not at all exclusive to environmentalism.

The controversy about global warming resides all too perfectly at the collision point of environmentalism and free market capitalism.

The authors explain how members of trade organizations and off - roaders came together at a Christian - right conference to create «a unified platform aimed to «destroy environmentalism.»»

This is at best a kind of soft - environmentalism, and it's passed off as the conclusion of climate science.

I'm not sure I get the «crisis of confidence» argument, but in the meantime, your anticipation that environmentalism will begin to refocus on overpopulation, prompted me to glance at The Ecologist.