Sentences with phrase «for ecological resources»

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

August 13 is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

August 13 is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and...

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First, because it is has important resources for helping advance ecological awareness among Christians, particularly with its stress on the relational character of all existence.

Second, we must use the vast ethical and conceptual resources of the Judeo - Christian tradition to develop a God - centered ecological ethic which accounts for the sacredness of the earth without losing sight of human worth and justice.

Since the natural world is understood simply as resource for commodities, there is no concern about ecological decay.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

There are reasons for believing that the group most able to appreciate the ecological dimensions of the emerging crisis — population, pollution, use of resources — may well be prosperous white Americans, especially their children.

Scientific data, both medical and ecological, warn us of the limited resources we have for supporting the human race.

«Whether a natural resource professional, land trust volunteer, or local conservation advocate, users will find MAPPR to be an efficient and effective tool for gaining valuable insights into targeted land conservation in the 21st century,» said Jeff Collins, Mass Audubon Director of Ecological Management and project lead.

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

«Voluntourism» ramps the ecological impulse up a notch, providing ways for vacationers to help save the world's sustainable resources

Thus, chlorination can have important ecological functions related to the activity of microorganisms, such as dealing with dangerous oxygen radicals that form during metabolism, or being part of the chemical battle that the microorganisms are engaged in, in the competition for resources in the ground.

Our genetic technology is only beginning to tap the vast potential benefits of these libraries, and seemingly «minor» species are typically the most specialized organisms; we can expect that ecological specialists will often turn out to have the most unusual genes and hence represent potential resources that we should preserve for our future needs.

The report, released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, maps out 13 areas that are of particular ecological and biological significance or are especially vulnerable to human intrusion.

«This study challenges the bottom - up bias that some scientists have — that microbes are running the show, and phytoplankton and plants are all that matter,» says Joe Roman, a whale expert in UVM's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.

The Lake Erie forecast is part of a NOAA ecological forecasting initiative that aims to deliver accurate, relevant, timely and reliable ecological forecasts directly to coastal resource managers and the public as part of its stewardship and scientific mandates for coastal, marine and Great Lakes resources.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

When individuals compete for limited resources in their environment they are subject to ecological selection.

Two researchers from UVM's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics participated in the study: Brendan Fisher, a professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, and Robin Naidoo of the World Wildlife Fund, a Gund Affiliate.

Since World War II, politicians and planners have shaped cities with no regard for resource use or ecological concerns.

«Conservation on this scale,» said Pew's Kallick, «helps assure that growth can not overdraft ecological balances, that an ample reserve of natural resource capital will remain in the bank for future generations to use.»

«This significant body of work represents a model example of science informing policy and lays the groundwork for future considerations of ecological flows within the state's long term efforts for protecting the health of its vital water resources.»

RTI staff worked closely with several of the Board members including the Environmental Defense Fund, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and The Nature Conservancy to develop a scientific basis for establishing the prescribed ecological flows.

«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.

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A warming climate will strongly influence Montana's snowpack, streamflow dynamics, and groundwater resources, with far - reaching consequences for social and ecological systems.

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

- Create a complementary resource to An Integrated Approach to Defining a System - Level Theory of Action for Formative Assessment focused on an ecological theory of action for equity and formative assessment.

«The few that are able to adapt to the new environment may disrupt the ecological balance of our natural habitats by competing with our native species for resources,» he explains.

He completed his Ph.D. in Fisheries, «Fisheries Resources of the Cuban Archipelago: Ecological Background and Strategies for Management.»

After ranking countries by the size of their demand for natural resources and the size of the country's ability to produce and replenish those resources, we wanted to know which countries live within their ecological means, and which countries rack up ecological debt.

Our residency offers resources and space on the Schuylkill Center's property for visual artists to engage audiences in the processes of ecological stewardship through scientific investigation and artistic creation.

A significant part of his oeuvre to date has led him to scrutinize the actual and dominant demands for technological advances, most of which depend on further depleting the Earth's natural resources and have vast implications for the future of our ecological systems.

LandLab offers resources and space on the Schuylkill Center's 340 - acre wooded property for visual artists to engage audiences in the processes of ecological stewardship through scientific investigation and artistic creation.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Small - scale solar, which can essentially be done anywhere at mid and lower latitudes, has fairly limited effects on ecological habitats (though I'd like to see better resource extraction for silicon, copper, etc), concentrates resource needs to a local level, harnesses an «unlimited» resource, is a great compliment to other renewables, and once operational has no emission footprint.

Attempting to substitute more technological services for degraded ecological and environmental services is putting us on a path toward greater resource and energy consumption with diminishing returns.

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

«But as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could go on.

We, the Coalition for the Northeast Ecological Corridor signed an agreement with the Puerto Rico Department of Ecological and Environmental Resources in April 2015 for co-management of the corridor.

For the rest of the year, we will meet our ecological demand by depleting resource stocks and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

While intended for personal and household use, this resource can also serve as a helpful guide for congregations that want to quantitatively evaluate their ecological «footprint» and take steps towards greater sustainability and social equity.

She is currently a graduate student at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, pursuing her MS in Leadership for Sustainability, with a concentration in Ecological Economics.

We advocate for an ecological and fair agriculture that protects wildlife and natural resources, supports family farms, and reduces our impact on developing countries.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

As the Ecological Footprint reflects the demand for productive area to make resources and absorb wastes, recycling can lower the Ecological Footprint by offsetting the extraction of virgin products, and reducing the area necessary for absorbing wastes.

Kenya, a country of vast beauty and natural resources, is plagued by water and power shortages and is headed for ecological disaster as a result of greed and corruption, asserts 1992 Goldman Prize winner and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.

In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems.