Sentences with phrase «for environmental learning»

Dr. Lia Ettinger of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership summed up the panel discussion by recognizing the business world's progress toward environmental responsibility.

Beyond traditional scientific knowledge of the environment, Canada's Framework for Environmental Learning and Sustainability, for example, places a heavy emphasis on strategies that enhance knowledge in the areas of justice, equity, peace, ethics, and quality of life.

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As the world began to learn in September, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a shocking «notice of violation,» the vehicles met emissions standards for dangerous oxides of nitrogen, known collectively as NOx, only when running their paces in an artificial, indoor lab setting.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

Environmental Grantmakers Association serves as the membership organization for progressive environmental philanthropy and provides learning opportunities and peer resources on aligning mission and investmenEnvironmental Grantmakers Association serves as the membership organization for progressive environmental philanthropy and provides learning opportunities and peer resources on aligning mission and investmenenvironmental philanthropy and provides learning opportunities and peer resources on aligning mission and investment strategies.

SOCIAL IMPACT X DESIGN From health care and education to housing and environmental degradation, learn how design has been used by businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to create inclusive products, services, and strategic frameworks that solve «wicked» problems, identify sustainable solutions, and create even greater benefits for the communities they serve.

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

Furthermore, there are other visions of reality from which to learn: visions that, like Whitehead's perspective, can serve as philosophical underpinnings for a responsible environmental ethic.

Finally, we have learned that prevention of mental and emotional problems must include concern for the economic, social, and environmental problems which trouble entire communities and form the foundation for specific instances of mental illness and breakdown.

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A long - standing community begun in Europe, PACE is considered by many of the industry's packaging leaders as the must - attend «platform» for strategic partnering where participants work together to share, learn and discuss the latest technology, materials, innovative design and regulatory and environmental developments.

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If you want to learn more about the work of local environmental water advisory groups and committees or you have any suggestions for the use of environmental water in your region please contact your local or state representative bodies, or alternatively your Local Engagement Officer.

The book will be of interest to policy makers, researchers and others who want to learn more about the actions Australia needs to take to prepare for major economic, social, technological and environmental change.

La Casita, like the Montessori philosophy itself, strives to explore its physical environmental and human community using it as a resource for learning as well as a receptacle for its work.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

Our Garden City Campus includes nearly eleven green acres offers boundless opportunities for play, physical development and hands - on environmental learning.

Our 6th Grade class learns about the environmental impact of our activities, as they are responsible for the weekly collection of all recyclables throughout the campus.

TEENS (Teenagers Exploring and Explaining Nature and Science) provides opportunities for Chicago high school students to practice environmental stewardship while learning valuable job skills.

«e» Inc Summer Science Discovery Program (Charlestown, MA) will help kids gain an appreciation for the natural world, as well as learn skills to become environmental stewards.

Environmental students learned about the prairie ecosystem, collecting data for fieldwork by identifying plants, looking at invasive plants and studying wildlife.

Thoughtfully designed to foster collaboration, catalyze innovative ideas, and support efficient administration of our educational programs, the Environmental Learning Center at Drumlin Farm will be an educational model of energy - saving features and green building design, sized to fit strategic plans for growth within a modest budget.

We are exposed earlier to environmental stimuli when born into this big world, which is important for learning.»

Whether you choose cloth diapers for economic, environmental or health benefits, the first step in cloth diapering is learning how to use them and what you might need!

Mass Audubon has officially broken ground for its state - of - the art Environmental Learning Center at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln.

First up, Kira Marchenese at Environmental Defense has been learning a lot in the past few weeks about using Facebook for political organizing, and she's put together some quick bullet points about its strengths that she's graciously allowed me to reprint.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox plans an all - out - attack on Gov. Cuomo for «caving in to environmental Luddites» by refusing to approve «fracking» for natural gas in upstate's Southern Tier, The Post has learned.

It is an excellent opportunity for students interested in environmental science to learn from local natural resources professionals as well as to spend a day enjoying the outdoors.

ALBANY — The director of the state Department of Health's Center for Environmental Health, Dr. Nathan Graber, is stepping down from the position early next month, POLITICO New York has learned.

The Green's only MP Caroline Lucas explains the party's environmental plans for Brighton and Hove, and how the party will learn from colleagues abroad on running the city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said he learned about the federal request for documents regarding potentially dangerous environmental conditions at the city's public housing through...

Eliza Reilly, executive director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a non-profit which seeks to strengthen student learning and interest in STEM by connecting course topics to issues of local, national and global importance, said rethinking STEM education is necessary to produce graduates equipped to tackle society's environmental, economic and political challenges.

For instance, every time we learn something, the new information is transformed into memory through synaptic plasticity, a process in which synapses are strengthened and become more responsive to different stimuli or environmental cues.

But New Scientist has learned that plans drawn up by the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, a coordinating group for government agencies, to commission research into treating dip waste to make it more environmentally friendly have recently been dropped because no funds could be found.

Understanding the true scope of the planet's microbial diversity is of interest to the DOE in order to learn how they can be harnessed for a wide range of energy and environmental challenges.

Waring says his «ingredients» for growing environmental cooperation include «a population of tight - knit groups, under high pressure to preserve resources, who have the power to manage them, and who learn from each other's successes and failures.»

The brain's ability to reorganize in response to environmental cues is known as plasticity, and it is this flexibility that allows us to learn things we never knew at birth; how to tie our shoes, for example, or do calculus problems.

Although SEC filings would no longer be required, communities could still learn something about its waste management and production practices because the company would need to provide information for various kinds of environmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental Integenvironmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental IntegEnvironmental Integrity Project.

«We're going to learn from those biological processes to improve the methods and find solutions for infrastructure - related construction, maintenance and operations; to reduce the carbon footprint of our construction methods; to reduce the ecological and environmental impact of industries like mining and construction; and to make better and more sustainable use of the non-renewable resources we have,» she said.

This is an inherently risky process, as we learned in 2010 when the BP well exploded,» Jacqueline Savitz, U.S. vice president for the environmental advocacy group Oceana, said in a statement.

Marti, who is studying environmental engineering, is among only 55 students from the United States selected to learn from 70 Nobel Laureates, who have received accolades for work in cancer and AIDS research, global health, medicine and more.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

Her next series of studies was to show that these multiple loops and bundles of neurons form the anatomical basis for the learning of new habits in response to environmental cues.

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When she wraps up her time in Morotai in April, Koch looks forward to heading back to California for a master's program in marine biodiversity, where she can learn more about how to translate her work into lasting environmental change.

An elimination diet can be very beneficial for a child who has eczema and other skin disorders, asthma, multiple food and environmental allergies, as well as neurologic and behavioral disorders such as sensory processing disorder, learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, autism, migraines, and epilepsy.

And finally, we show you how to make some powerful lifestyle changes involving things like sleep, sun exposure, environmental toxins, stress, and just learning to accept yourself for who you are.

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