Sentences with phrase «global society with»

Golkar toys with the value system of global society with a brilliant plan: He purchases an object (say, a shovel at Home Depot or a broom at Ikea), modifies it, signs it, photographs it, and returns it to the store — all within respective return policies.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

Not exact matches

«Girls with more schooling participate in greater numbers in the labor force when they grow up, and they are able to earn more for their families and society,» the Center for Global Development reports.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

Meanwhile the National Space Society estimates the industry's size could eventually swell to as high as $ 1 trillion, with the proliferation of satellites, global positioning systems and other technology already giving consumers a taste of space's vast reaches.

Actually, with UT - Dallas proposing to perform the needed engineering and having the endorsement of Mr. Tom Hill (Senior Fellow EDS), if I had a working model today B - Systems provided to global societies is the stimulus plan that President Obama and Congress are in need of (if they really desire to create jobs).

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

The Global Opportunity Network contributed with its presence at the ECCA 2015 conference to assure scientists, civil society and business participants that many opportunities and solutions are already there, waiting to be explored, measured, implemented and scaled up.

There are known connections and movements of people involved in government policy, scientific societies, and private industry, all with the common thread of influencing the outcome of a set of programs and investments underpinned by the supposed threat of global warming.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

With so much profound change occurring, the sense arose among some European intellectuals that the differences between the new global society and the past few centuries is as great as that between the modern period and the medieval one.

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.

As with global warming, so too with the lawlessness in our society: the debates over its causes are far from finished.

The Minjung are deprived of access to science and technology in the industrial society; and they are denied the cultural means to cope with the world information and communication order, now dominated by the global corporate powers.

Clearly, we must not take for granted that the Western notion of «civil society,» as it developed largely in Britain and America from the seventeenth century onward with the close collaboration of the forebears of today's «mainline «protestant denominations, has answers for a contemporary global society.

globalisation with a human face, global citizenship, sustainable development, good governance, consensus - building, global ethic, cultural diversity, cultural liberty, dialogue among civilizations, quality of life, quality education, education for all, right to choose, informed choice, informed consent, gender, equal opportunity, empowerment, NGOs, civil society, partnerships, transparency, bottom - up participation, accountability, holism, broad - based consultation, facilitation, inclusion, awareness - raising, clarification of values, capacity - building, women's rights, children's rights, reproductive rights, sexual orientation, safe abortion, safe motherhood, enabling environment, equal access, life skills education, peer education, bodily integrity, internalisation, ownership, bestpractices, indicators of progress, culturally sensitive approaches, secular spirituality, Youth Parliament, peace education, the rights of future generations, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, human security, precautionary principle, prevention...

All this also requires encounter and dialogue with other religions in the region that aim at discovering through their respective heritages, a common ethical ground for the basis of a new society» (Human Rights: a Global Ecumenical Agenda, WCC 1993 p. 44).

My partial response begins with the need for theological recovery of the power of forgiveness to humanize our global society.

The Minjung are not only deprived of access to science and technology in the industrial and post-industrial societies; but also they are suppressed by technocracy; and they are denied the cultural means to cope with the world information and communication order, now dominated by the global corporate powers.

The political stance of the Pope plus his endorsing «green» causes aligns him with American and Global organizations that are focused on removing God from society and are demonizing Christians of all denominations.

They were strongly committed to global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.

FAO can coordinate, at global level, the initiatives, activities and projects on food losses waste reduction by partnering with UN agencies, other international organizations, and worldwide stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society.

It has also informally partnered with the Humane Society International to support its global efforts to reduce meat consumption.

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 CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

FAO coordinates major global initiatives and projects to tackle food waste and loss, partnering with international organisations, the private sector and civil society.

Paul Tough delivers the Fifth Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, presented by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP), in collaboration with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago.

We acknowledge that we live in one of the most privileged societies on Earth and that local change must be tempered with global action.

She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Non-Profit Management from North Carolina State University, a Bachelor's degree from Barnard College / Columbia University, and is a member of the global public affairs and administration honor society Pi Alpha Alpha.

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

In contrast to these global trends among traditional societies and non-Western countries, U.S. government data estimates that fewer than 15 % of Americans continue nursing their infants after they are just six months old (while Canadians are slightly higher with an average of about 25 %).

The Global Network, together with other civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements, has seized this anniversary as an opportunity for stocktaking and, more importantly, to call for renewed commitment by governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders, for the full realisation of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

Roger has written extensively on European and British Affairs, including The Blair Revolution (with Peter Mandelson, 1996), Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond, 2006) and Beyond New Labour (with Patrick Diamond, 2009), as well as several other Fabian Society and Policy Network pamphlets.

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.

Osborne has shifted the burden of the bank levy from large banks with global balance sheets such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, who can easily get up and leave, and on to smaller banks and building societies, who can't leave.

«Taxing sugary drinks isn't a new concept, but given the immediacy of the global obesity problem, it's time we got creative with how we approach it,» said author of the study Dr. Evan Blecher, Senior Economist at the American Cancer Society.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

«Global inequality, with its roots in the histories of imperialism and colonialism, has affected the ability of Caribbean societies to deal with the challenges of climate change.

They strengthened the university management, in particular the presidents, as well as the position of the deans or the faculties; introduced a university council staffed with representatives of the economy and society; and introduced global budgets.

In global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann said.

Global society operates as a network of creativity and innovation, with a set of «idea capitals» forming the principal nodes of this network.

The new results span 27 years of data collected in Argentina under the direction of Dee Boersma, UW biology professor, with the support of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the UW, the Office of Turismo in Argentina's Chubut Province, the Global Penguin Society and the La Regina family.

For example, the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, clearly demonstrated that even small - to - moderate explosive eruptions, in particular if long - lasting, can paralyze entire sectors of societies, with significant, global - level, economic impacts.

Twelve of the interdisciplinary team of 20 coauthors are from the University of Maryland, with multiple other universities (Northeastern University, Columbia University, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, and Brown University) and other institutions (Joint Global Change Research Institute, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also represented.

With global collaborations, we can identify strategic future investments in marine protected areas, and track progress towards better outcomes,» said Dr. Emily Darling, Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society, who leads a global coral reef monitoring program.

The increasingly global nature of human society, with interdependent economies, international communications networks and intermingling cultures, has created, according to Gregory Stock, the conditions for the emergence of a new type of being — a social super-organism bound together by technology, which he calls Metaman.

Borboroglu and the Global Penguin Society are working with the Argentinian government to create a marine sanctuary for Magellanic penguins, an effort Borboroglu hopes will help increase the penguins» food supply and reduce chick deaths.

The paper identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.