Sentences with phrase «fairly pioneering in»

Both were also considered fairly pioneering in the adoption of a digital format, recognizing that travelers needed instant access to information via their devices.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This practice is fairly in charge of their keeping up their status and position as one of the pioneers in this corner dating region.

Education Pioneers works primarily in urban areas in order to have the biggest impact on underserved communities, said Ms. Angilly, and when it comes to placing fellows in schools, the distribution is split fairly evenly between charter and district - run schools.

But Harry Collins's detailed work on the history and sociology of gravitational wave detection is a counterexample to that thesis: The field's pioneer, who became a heretic for claiming to detect the waves with an apparatus generally believed to be orders of magnitude too insensitive (and inexpensive), was refuted in print and challenged at meetings in a scientific but fairly gentle fashion (given the stakes for those trying to raise money for more - sensitive detectors).