Sentences with phrase «environmentalism from»

Meanwhile, however, I'm wondering if any critics of environmentalism from universities in developing economies will be allowed to the party.

He reviews past failures: The first wave of environmentalism from the 1880's to the 20's; the sixties and seventies Rachel Carson / Barry Commoner era; the eighties and nineties of acid rain and ozone.

Gore's 2006 Nobel Prize speech elevated environmentalism from a pretext for social intervention to a categorical imperative by declaring: «We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer.

*... 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...

There are, of course, many branches of environmentalism from conservative «not - in - my - backyard» to radical «people are a disease on the planet.»

The works exhibited attempt to straddle the local and the international and encourage the definition of environmentalism from the perspective of the global south.

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.

Not exact matches

As an issue, environmentalism has pervaded our society on many levels, from our personal lives to the business sector.

A huge part of Ben & Jerry's brand strength has come from its status as an innovator in the field of corporate social responsibility, combining philanthropy, environmentalism and social activism.

There is no doubt about the fact that Millennial consumers in particular are obsessed with making sure that they are only buying from companies with a good track record in terms of environmentalism, labor rights, and charitable contributions.

Shoppers are buying based on a company's values, which can include domestic manufacturing, environmentalism and ethically sourced raw materials, ranging from cocoa to cotton fibers.

The religious impulse, evident also in radical environmentalism, rightly recoils from making an idol of humanity.

So much contemporary spirituality, ranging from the pantheism of «Gaia» environmentalism to the process theology and panentheism of some Catholic schools of thought, presume some variant or other of this view.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Not that they depended in any immediate sense upon biological science for their concepts or method, or that they had any conscious concern with Darwin, but the modernism,» «environmentalism,» and «functionalism» that were explicit in their methodology and emphasis had been implicitly derived from the Darwinian theory of natural selection.

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

By contrast «deep» environmentalism — that is, deep ecology — adopts a cooperative perspective, believing that human beings are inseparable from that web of life of which they are a part, and that other members of the web are equally as valuable as humans.

From Rachel: How can we environmentalist help challenge and change the notion that environmentalism is about politics?

Aren't family nature, and environmentalism tenets of faith beyond the Jewish world...» From this, any Jew with half a brain can conclude that she is a «Reform» where they worship Marx more than Torah.

While Chipotle's commitments are among the highest in the industry, it's decision to import beef from across the globe sheds light on the growing controversy over meat and environmentalism.

This era includes everything from modern liberalism, libertarianism, Marxism, anarchism, environmentalism... et cet.

The shadow Climate Change Secretary is winning some plaudits for his «positive environmentalism» from sceptics such as Mr Montgomerie, raising hopes that the Tories can square the circle and remain broadly united.

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.

It keeps us from embracing a robust, engaged environmentalism that is based on something more than gauzy, prelapsarian yearnings.

Heavy on text, the new tome, Fit for Life: Not Fat for Life (HCI, 2003), offers detailed discussions on topics ranging from eating to environmentalism to spiritualism.

The other theory is that the franchise's public relations benefits, from loudly donating a portion of opening week ticket proceeds to an important conservation cause to simply promoting environmentalism and ecological awareness, outweigh the relatively minor financial losses suffered by this multi-billion dollar corporation.

This artful collision of good intentions turned awry and infectious melancholia pulsates with themes of despair, environmentalism, ailment and self - loathing, lead by a naked knockout of a performance from Ethan Hawke.

I heard a good comment from a guy from Greenpeace when asked what someone should do to get involved with cutting edge environmentalism, meaning how to get into anti-whale campaigns instead of sitting on the sidelines.

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.

Since then, it has evolved from «Dancing with Dragons» with only a few songs specifically produced for the game in its environmentalism themed Story Mode, to also letting you play your local music library as well as any of the 60,000 hand - crafted high - quality ranked maps for osu!

This week's featured shoppers are first time shoppers from the organization Habana Works, Inc., a Brooklyn based urban environmentalism awareness program.

Dion's works display unusual orderings of objects and specimens collected from staged digs and excursions, addressing topics ranging from environmentalism to public policy.

The curatorial drive for the exhibition arose from memories of the early 1990's environmental superhero, Captain Planet, the star of an animated children's TV edutainment series that advocated environmentalism.

His paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation and contemplation, they reveal a charged space that connects to the artist's personal experiences and whose underlying ideas raise questions about issues from politics to environmentalism to cultural identity.

While her research originates from a dedication to environmentalism and sustainability it extends deeper into questioning the evolution of human psychology.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.

(a title borrowed from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass) conveys how artists have addressed colonialism, environmentalism and racial inequality over the years, and evokes the natural landscape of the United States, imperialism and some of the more infamous aspects of American culture.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

Once in December, his newspaper column concluded by asserting that even if geologists decided that there were only three thimbles of oil to be extracted from ANWR, «there would still be something to be said for going down to get them, just to prove that this nation can not be forever paralyzed by people wielding environmentalism as a cover for collectivism.»

The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman mentioned this possibility in his piece titled Drilling, Disaster, Denial, in which he frames the loss of environmentalism's hold on the public as stemming from the difficulty of getting the»... public focused on a form of pollution that's invisible, and whose effects unfold over decades rather than days.»

Then there the tired denialist classic «church of environmentalism» from post 430.

Our goal with the film is to nudge everyone out of their comfort zones a bit, get them to see issues from slightly different perspectives, and hopefully elevate the conversation about environmentalism, terrorism, activism, and how police should react to activism.

Ultimately, environmentalism stems from acts of doing less: less consumption, less commuting, less carbon emissions, less wastefulness, less carelessness.»

I don't discuss it my response because it's a scholarship rather than a political / environmental issue, but Kareiva's amateurish portrayal of environmentalism stems in part from his lack of understanding of rigor in the humanities.

From Dark Mountain's rejection of environmentalism, through the dangers of disasterbation, to an obsession with individual impact as opposed to collective action, I can't help feeling like much of the green movement is missing something.

«Julian Simon and other critics of environmentalism... have taken far too much comfort from extravagant and flawed predictions of scarcity and doom,» writes Sabin.

More importantly, second, it fires a shot across the bows of any liberal organ which dares to entertain a climate sceptic on its pages in much the same way as Martin Durkin's Great Global Warming Swindle (just 90 minutes of TV in a shedule jam - packed with environmentalism) drew furious comments about Channel 4 from the Great and the Good.

AGW (alias environmentalism) is well - packaged propaganda designed to redistribute wealth in the current fascist, one - world society that nobody intended when this path was chosen in 1945 to «save the world» (and world leaders) from the fate Hiroshima suffered on 6 Aug 1945 — nuclear annihilation.

Perhaps the closest I come to motivation is from personal experience with the intersection of science education and environmentalism.