Sentences with phrase «global society into»

We can divide most of contemporary global society into two parts: rural and urban.

Not exact matches

A group of thought leaders representing business, academia and civil society sits down to discuss how global risks can be turned into a wide range of new opportunities.

We are shaping the Global Opportunity Network into a focal point for the growing interest in the solutions and opportunities that arise from the transition to a more sustainable society.

On the one hand, it is drawing all nations and cultures into one global conglomeration which has the capacity to formulate some common moral standards that might enable us to eliminate the wars of the past and establish a stable global society.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

In a scenario like this it is imperative on our part to look into the political ethics because the global society and the forces behind globalization have failed to exercise its political will.

Until we achieve a more stable form of global society, there is real danger of descent into social chaos.

Unlike many global religions with theocratic institutions or faiths that weave intricately into personhood and national identity, Christian belief and adherence is virtually impossible to assume of anyone in a free society.

The culture in which the global society finds its cohesion needs to be able to draw all human groups and individuals into some form of shared life, a degree of commonality that allows for harmony between peoples and also with the planetary environment.

Although these visions led to two great multiethnic civilizations — Christendom and the Islamic world — neither of these has succeeded in becoming the new global society, partly because each encountered within itself a continual resurgence of pre-Axial ethnic tribalism, and partly because each developed an intolerant exclusiveness which turned it into another closed society, this time of a religious kind.

Nor are Indian farmers the only ones to be plunged into this technological, global society.

As we enter the emerging global society and are all drawn into new unities in a postsocialist world, we all can learn from this history.

The electronic abolition of space united separate societies into a «global village.»

Economic ideology that turns human beings into relentless market maximizers undermines commitments to family, to church, to neighborhood, to school and to the larger national and global societies.

The moral and spiritual resources for a just, peaceful and sustainable global society are pressing daily upon us, seeking entry into life and blocked only by self - interest.

There is no one true and absolute human history; there is no one definitive Universe Story which can unite all humankind into one global society.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The complaint submitted by Baby Milk Action was presented in the publication Nestlé's UN Global Compact cover up: How Nestlé's Shared Value reports cover up malpractice and bring the UN voluntary initiative for corporate responsibility into disrepute (NESTLÉ CRITICS, 2009) which included information from various civil society organisations (note 3) alleging violations in the areas of:

Speaking on the theme, «One Vision, Many Lives,» the President noted that a society that aims to transform itself into a modern, productive player in the global market needs an educated workforce; and that means it must get its educational policies right.

Established in 1992, ISCT is a global society of clinicians, researchers, regulators, technologists and industry partners with a shared vision to translate cellular therapy into safe and effective therapies to improve patients» lives worldwide.

He will demonstrate through the examples of close global collaborations across public institutions and academia are the way society is going to realize the potential as genomic knowledge is being converted into applied science.

«One of the key goals of the WSF is to ensure that evidence - based knowledge feeds into policies applied on a global, regional and local level to foster transitions to more sustainable societies»

Branded is a dark and mind - bending journey into a surreal, dystopian society where corporate brands have unleashed a monstrous global conspiracy to get inside our minds and keep the population disillusioned, dependent and passive.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

I am delighted with this news which will expand the conversation into the future of education and how we can best support children (and teachers) for the global demands facing society.»

Key insights into the future of global education were offered, including one from Jessica, Executive Director at the Asia Society: «The more we can promote understanding and perspective - taking, and encourage explanation of your own thinking while respectfully hearing others, the more opportunity there is for new thinking to emerge and communities to be strengthened.

Social change and peace movements / campaigns, once considered the dangerous work of local grassroots indigenous activists and civil society, have now transformed into «global crowdfunded - change your Twitter avatar - update your Facebook status - like my page» campaigns.

As we continue to evolve into a kind of worldwide school, Global Citizenship is a must to guide our students into the hyper connected and multi demanding society we are already immersed in.

A new publication by Asia Society and OECD presents a new framework for global competence and provides practical guidance and examples of how educators can embed global competence into their existing practices.

Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educglobal education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in education.

Headlining the changes are the all - new second - generation LEAF, the all - new Nissan Kicks and some exciting new technologies in support of Nissan Intelligent Mobility, a global initiative that focuses on how Nissan vehicles are driven, powered and integrated into society.

The new LEAF is also the embodiment of Nissan Intelligent Mobility, a global initiative that focuses on how Nissan vehicles are driven, powered and integrated into society.

The worldwide movement to embed financial education into schools has gained impetus due to some major changes in society over the past decade, such as the Global Financial Crisis, an increase in youth debt (e.g. mobile phone debt) and research linking financial problems with low quality of life.

The dual meaning of «resolution,» as both coming - into - view and overcoming conflict, defines a wide range of artistic responses to the global shifts in society and culture — world wars, disasters, financial collapse, environmental degradation, and violations of human rights.

Elizabeth Abston, Curator of the Collection at the Museum, notes that, «Bringing these remarkable acquisitions into the permanent collection allows us to further mine the historical and contemporary issues that affect us as both Mississippians and members of a global society.

While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in society after 1950 and wider global influences that came into play.

«Bringing these remarkable acquisitions into the permanent collection allows us to further mine the historical and contemporary issues that affect us as both Mississippians and members of a global society.

The review's author, Jing Cao, makes note of the ramifications of Wong's analysis: «In order to welcome «Chinese art» into the global contemporary, the struggles within Chinese society for artistic legitimacy and the on - the - ground complexities of -LSB-.....]

Women are rising to great political power in societies around the world and we are just beginning to see a shift occur as more women step into positions of global leadership.

At once incisive and ecstatic, Genzken's new work expands her long - running investigation into the intersection of the personal, the global, and the technological in contemporary society.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

Implementing these processes into your daily waste habits and working to create a circular flow of waste will only add your footprint to these already resourceful steps to creating a global zero waste society.

Scientists have warned for decades that the reliance of global society on fossil fuel energy is putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warming the Earth.

The complete failure of climate alarmist science in just about every field it has forced it's way into is becoming increasingly obvious and the totality of avoidable costs, individually for the poor, as well as socially, politically and economically for society that climate alarmist science has imposed on our global and national societies is horrendous and only now is just beginning to be totaled up.

The growing call to decarbonize the global economy by 80 % by 2050 could only foreseeably happen alongside large parts of the population plunging into poverty, destitution or starvation, as low - carbon energy sources do not produce enough energy to sustain society.

A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B warns that overpopulation — combined with over-consumption — is threatening to push the entire globe into «a collapse of global civilization.»

As put by geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut - scientist and former president of the National Space Society, «It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.»

One of the most disturbing aspects of the global warming scam is the number of prominent people and entire segments of society bullied into silence.

By James Delingpole The Royal Society (Motto: Nullius in Verba Unless Itâ $ ™ s About Global Warming In Which Case Weâ $ ™ re Happy To Believe Whatever Unsubstantiated Drivel Weâ $ ™ re Fed By Michael Mann, Phil Jones, et al) has announced whoâ $ ™ ll be chairing its â $ œindependentâ $ inquiry into the science behind the Climategate scandal.

That last one leads into the logical next issue of concern about global warming and climate change ramifications in society.