In the wake of the Great Recession and
the growing urgency of climate change, Walden emerges again as a home - grown American handbook dedicated to self - reliance and a life lived with, not against, nature.
Not exact matches
Another environmental issue
of growing urgency today is
climate change.
The
growing sense
of global
urgency over our twin crisis —
climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption
of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»
Given the
growing urgency of the need to rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and the hard - to - imagine magnitude
of global emissions reductions needed to stabilize atmospheric concentrations at reasonably safe levels, the failure
of many engaged in
climate change controversies to see the practical significance
of understanding
climate change as an ethical problem must be seen as a huge human tragedy.
Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on
Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other i
Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other im
Change to discuss the future
of international efforts on
climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other i
climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other im
change, the study is just the latest to argue a
growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face
of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.
This guidance document presents that
climate change adds to the
urgency of sustainable urban planning and management and to the a broad set
of challenges for many city governments revolving around providing jobs, services and housing to
growing urban populations.
There's also a
growing understanding in communities around the world
of the
urgency of accelerating the transition to avoid the worst impacts
of climate change.