Sentences with phrase «foster environmental progress»
Twice before on Dot Earth, I've offered and solicited ways in which President Obama could foster environmental progress on a budget:
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My purpose has long been to help people make sense of the momentous environmental and social changes under way on this «pale blue dot» called Earth, the forces behind those changes, and what policies and practices can foster human progress while limiting regrets.
But there's also the broadest, and most important, question: In the wake of this unfolding calamity, what is the best approach to building an energy policy for the long haul that fosters economic progress (as distinct from simple economic growth) while limiting environmental risks ranging from tainted beaches and fisheries to global warming?
He sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of «ecological citizenship» as a precursor to progress on planet - scale environmental issues:
How, he asked, do we translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress?
To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.
In a wise Op - Ed article on Sunday, Margo Oge, a former senior Environmental Protection Agency official and the author of «Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change With Cleaner, Smarter Cars,» laid out an approach to fostering progress toward developing truly renewable biologically - based energy sources.
Industry's election - year message is one of opportunity and a call for leadership — opportunity to simultaneously add to U.S. economic and environmental progress, and leadership by elected officials on energy policies and approaches that will foster safe development going forward.