Sentences with phrase «health and the environment mean»

Its hugely destructive impacts on climate, health and the environment mean that no amount of corporate sponsorship or lobbying can clean its image.

Not exact matches

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

So, choosing certified organic products means not only caring about your body and health, but also caring about animal welfare and the environment.

But these were rejected by his fellow MEPs in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) last week, meaning only the objection to sugary baby food was put to the vote at today's plenary session in Strasbourg.

She serves on the Legislature's environment, planning and agriculture, health, public safety, public works, transportation and energy, and ways and means committees.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

The information available on their recovery means we can measure the impacts of both environment and social factors on population health.»

Natural gas cracked out of shale deposits may mean the U.S. has a stable supply for a century — but at what cost to the environment and human health?

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

Health officials fear that eating vegetables and meat laced with drugs meant to treat infections can promote resistant strains of bacteria in food and the environment.

Such experience conveys to the admissions committees knowledge of what it means to provide health care and a true interest in the clinical environment.

CS: It means optimal health so that you can enjoy life much better, and longer, than if you aren't being mindful of your health and environment.

«Doing something positive for the environment and improving your health means you're getting twice the benefit in half the time.»

Dear Roger Williams wasn't aware of this fact when he wrote the Biochemical Individuality book I described above (although he hypothesized about a genetic influence on propensity to thrive on specific diets), but variants of these genes are now known to hinder or help absorption or the efficient use of nutrients in foods, which means that — depending on your genetic makeup, microbiota, health history and living environment — you should consume more or less folate, choline, vitamin C, fatty acids, starches, caffeine and beyond.

This means I see mental health problems emerging from a combination of factors including biology, genetics, upbringing, psychological tendencies and our environment.

Part of boosting your sense of health and wellness over the summer is creating a home environment that is as healthy as possible — and that means keeping a tidy, organized and clutter - free home.

It provides a means of developing cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills; encourages empathy, tolerance, understanding, cooperation and collaboration; and fosters positive attitudes towards health, risk, the environment and community.

As I am sure you know as a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, what the least restrictive environment means is that children with special needs are required by law to be placed in a general education classroom or a setting as close to the general education setting as much as possible consistent with that child's right to receive a free and appropriate public education.

This means that very little attention is usually paid to a puppy's health or upbringing in the puppy mill environment, and the puppies often have congenital illnesses or behavioral problems.

I approach behavior problems in a holistic way, meaning that we'll be looking at everything we can (health, diet, behavior, environment, training, etc.) and seeing what changes we can make to best help the dog and the family.

These amazing creatures are the cornerstone of this enchanting gallery and a keystone species in the natural world — meaning their health is a good indicator of the health of their environment.

In true horror style ammunition is low, herbs to restore health are difficult to find, and enemies spawn everywhere, meaning that most environments are riddled with danger.

Combined with the health and vitality systems (underpinned by a fun cooking element) it means players really have to constantly attune to the environment.

It was particularly fun to focus on the environment on the show given Lehrer's own background in environmental science and public health, which he alluded to in an Earth Day riff on the meaning of environmentalism:

Given inherent uncertainty in assessing new technologies this means that the risks to the environment and human health are much higher than were the case if more certain scientific information were required.

ClimateCare's unique focus on projects that tackle poverty, improve health and protect the environment means that businesses offsetting through us already benefit from robust measurement of the impacts of their support.

Green building means improving the way that homes and homebuilding sites use energy, water, and materials to reduce impacts on human health and the environment.

Offsetting through ClimateCare means you can choose from vast range of carbon reduction projects many of which are designed to tackle poverty and improve health, as well as protecting the environment.

It means people walk more and drive less — 45 per cent of those living downtown do walk to work, which is considered better for the environment and citizens» health.

This newsletter discusses the publishing of rivers climate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.

Rep. Renacci holds the sad distinction of a shockingly low 3 percent lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), meaning he has voted against the environment and public health 97 percent of the time throughout his career in Congress.

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

Like improving productivity, employment, infrastructure, education, health and yes, the environment (if it means eliminating poisons, that is, stuff proven to be toxic to humans in its current environmental concentration).

«The purpose of this code is to establish minimum requirements to safeguard the public safety, health and general welfare through affordability, structural strength, means of egress facilities, stability, sanitation, light and ventilation, energy conservation and safety to life and property from fire and other hazards attributed to the built environment and to provide safety to fire fighters and emergency responders during emergency operations.»

The LCV, which has been scoring lawmakers» actions on environment, public health and climate issues for nearly 50 years, awarded Senate Republicans a record low average 1 percent score, with 46 Senators receiving a score of zero — meaning «they voted against the environment and public health at every opportunity» in 2017.

Second, a cleaner environment means easier breathing and an improvement in personal health.

Any way you look at it, that means moving away from coal, which is dirty from beginning to end of its life cycle, and threatens our health and our environment.

Keeping a device in working order and for longer means a smaller impact on the environment and a dent in the piles of e-waste that pose a serious human health problem.

Investing in clean cooking is a means to empower women, improve health, free up time for children to go to school, tackle poverty, create employment and protect the environment — reducing deforestation and carbon emissions.

It can not be ruled out that, even where there is no such impossibility, the transfer of water may be regarded as satisfying the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph and, in particular, (i) the condition that it serves a general interest and / or the benefits to the environment and society linked to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 4 (1) of that directive are outweighed by the benefits to human health, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable development resulting from the transfer of water and (ii) the condition that the beneficial objectives pursued by that transfer can not, for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate cost, be achieved by other means which would be a significantly better environmental option.

The balance struck within a TPP chapter between measures designed to facilitate international trade and / or investment and a host state's sovereign right to regulate as a means of achieving legitimate policy objectives, including the protection of human rights, health, the environment, public morals, cultural institutions, the financial sector or intellectual property.

He means stripping Americans of public protections that have preserved our health, safety, environment, and financial security for decades.

We don't know where these technologies will lead and I hope we do it with forethought in terms of what it means for the environment, how it's manufactured, human health.

Working as a social worker assistant means counseling a group of people that have a social problem, such as: abused children or women, people with mental health conditions, drug and alcohol abusers, children with learning disabilities, school non-attendees or any other group that can not adapt to the social environment.

Being a medical assistant means working with doctors, nurses and allied health staff in a variety of environments.

In its application in a given case, the best interest of the child means what a judge says it means, but a number of best interest factors come into play, such as the child's age, gender, mental and physical health, the health of parents, the lifestyle and other social considerations of parents, the love and emotional ties between parent and child, the parents» ability to provide food, shelter, clothing and medical care, the quality of schools of the child, the child's preference if the child is over 12, the ability and willingness of the parent to foster a healthy relationship between child and other parent, and the stability of the environment.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

In such an environment of racism and stigma, many of Spurling's informants were worried about the mental health issues that went undiagnosed in the community and what risks that meant, particularly for young people whose future job or education prospects were bleak.

Greenwood and de Leeuw are focused on understanding how the employment environment within the health sector can better attract and be more advantageous for First Nations, how to increase non-Indigenous health care workers» understandings of the unique sociocultural of Indigenous peoples, and how creative research tools might provide more successful means of gathering stories and reaching conclusions about making healthcare sectors more culturally safe for Indigenous peoples and ways of knowing.

The combination of the healthy economic situation of the country, the substantial potential that currently exists in the health sector and the national leadership being shown through the COAG process, means that the current policy environment is ripe for achieving the longstanding goal of overcoming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.