Sentences with phrase «founding earth policy»

Prior to founding Earth Policy Institute, Brown was well known in environmental and policy circles for his work with the Worldwatch Institute, a pioneering environmental think tank he launched back in 1974.

In May 2001, he founded the Earth Policy Institute to provide a vision and a road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy.

In 1974 he founded the Worldwatch Institute, leaving in 2001 to found the Earth Policy Institute.

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I find it funny that the same person who denies evolution and embraces a Biblical figure who taught «feed the poor» and «love your enemies» nevertheless embraces Social Darwinism and endorses scorched earth foreign policy.

Over the years Brown, who founded the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, both in Washington, D.C., has often seemed a gloomy prophet.

On Thursday, we will discuss those issues with Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; and well - known thinker Lester Brown, who founded the «Earth Policy Institute», a US - based environmental organisation.

Raman of Friends of the Earth International, puts it simply: «We need Northern countries to develop stringent policies to reduce their energy consumption and attempt to find solutions to their energy needs locally.»

-- Gilbert Satchell «We receive the regular e-mail updates from the Earth Policy Institute and find them very enlightening.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Green Climate Fund (GCF) risks becoming a sideshow to big development banks and other multilateral institutions unless it rapidly changes course, according to the findings of a new study by Friends of the Earth U.S. and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) was founded by a group of researchers, educators and community activists who saw the need to affirm and revitalize principles of democracy and social justice in energy and environmental policy.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)