Sentences with phrase «human powered activities»

Very outdoorsy (human powered activities) active.

Camp provides children with the opportunity to connect with nature, to participate in human powered activities, and to benefit from personal and primary relationships.

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Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

Yet, though the absolute future is not in human hands, precisely its hopeful expectation becomes the driving power in man's cultural activities: the Christian hopes through creating culture and vice versa.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

Nevertheless, although unconsciously controlled love is of great power in all human life, the love that emerged into importance in the axial period was an activity of consciousness.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

Through Jesus» faithful response to the Father, his human activity became the vehicle for divine activity, for Jesus» own power of the present allowed the divine power of the future to be fully effective.

These same divine forces were also to be found within human beings, notably in their sexual and agricultural activity (the two were closely linked: the same creative powers gave fertility to the human womb and to the land).

His accounts of justice and the evil of power, he says, point out the ambiguity of political life and the tragedy of human history, but do not imply that one ought to withdraw from political activity.

«Religion is that activity of the human impulse towards self - preservation by means of which Man seeks to carry his essential vital purposes through against the adverse pressure of the world by raising himself freely towards the world's ordering and governing powers when the limits of his own strength are reached.»

He will continue to deny climate change caused by human activity; and will use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut power plant carbon emissions.

Human activities, such as industrial production, transport, power generation, and wood burning emit large amounts of tiny pollutant particles containing, for example, soot and sulfate, into the atmosphere.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.

«That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information — such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location — less «brain power» is available to focus on the family relationships,» said lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies in Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences.

His work became of paramount importance when he demonstrated that the intensity of solar radiation was related to the Sun's magnetic activity, which had (and still has) crucial implications for numerous human activities, such as communications systems and power lines.

The year's incredible heat serves as a stark reminder of how much the Earth's temperature has risen due to the steady buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like power generation, transportation and forest clearing.

The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.

Our in vitro study provides a baseline for defining healthy and disease - like states and highlights the power of moving beyond single and dual species applications to capture key players and their orchestrated metabolic activities within a complex human oral microbiome model.

The rest is released by human activities, with coal - fired power plants contributing the largest source of mercury to the atmosphere.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Included Activities: Taj Mahal Visit Agra Fort Visit Baby Taj Visit Transport: Visit the Agra Fort by human - powered cycle - rickshaw.

Human activity, and the turns of economic booms and busts, are insinuated throughout the works as artifacts — semi-manicured yards, chain link fences, power lines, pavement — hidden among rich vegetation; subjects that are treated as background.

Human activity and its power to transform the world is the theme at the heart of Ali Kazma's practice.

By the way, I'd just like to mention that I am far happier to be arguing about the comparative benefits of nuclear power, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, conservation, efficiency, reforestation, organic agriculture, etc. for quickly reducing CO2 emissions and concentrations, than to be engaged in yet another argument with someone who doesn't believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, or that human activities are not causing warming, or that the Earth is cooling, or thinks that AGW is a «liberal» conspiracy to destroy capitalism, etc..

We need constantly to rethink the goals, effects, overall context and ethical limits of this human activity, which is a form of power involving considerable risks.

How, he asked, do we translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress?

However, once the Lunar Power System is much under way, we will also be able to start moving energy - using activities such as mining and heavy manufacturing to Space, further helping solve the overall «humans on Earth» problem, not merely the energy - climate part of it.

In a move widely interpreted as his effort to «out green» Gore, Bush pledged to include carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities, in a basket of restricted power plant pollutants.

These include views about climate change, where older adults are less likely to see human activity as a main reason behind global warming, and people's level of support for stricter emission limits for power plants to address climate change.

They simply don't have the power to reduce carbon emissions from human activities, making it nearly impossible for them to deal with the sea ice decline face on.

unless ameliorated by ceding to government the power to control all human activity that affects the release of CO2 into the atmosphere.»

E.g., although only 15 % of «conservative Republicans» say they believe that the «earth is warming mostly due to human activity,» almost double that percentage agree that «restrictions on power plant carbon emissions» (29 %) and «international agreements to limit carbon emissions» (27 %) would «make a big difference» in «address [ing] climate change»!

Similarly, today natural climate - change is being blamed on human activity by politicians, rather than the scientific illiteracy that's CAUSED by the politicization of the scientific process as a tool for power rather than knowledge.

Government Power Over Climate Science: On November 15, 1995, the U.S. State Department sent a 30 page document to Sir John Houghton, leader of the IPCC Second Assessment's Chapter 8 (Science), stating «the executive summary and concluding sections of the chapter may need to be revised,» and pointed out a passage noting, «A major issue is whether or not we can state with confidence that we are able to attribute all or part of any observed climate change to human activities.

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

Ecomodernism promises an Anthropocene comprised of more wild nature thanks to concentrated human activities — big cities, vertical farms, nuclear power — but on - the - ground evidence suggests «re-wilding» will be anything but tame.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

Finally, Prof. Chilingar appeared to attack global heating by concluding that direct heating of the air by human activity (aircraft air friction, power plant thermal plumes, etc.) couldn't possibly cause the observed heating — which every serious climate scientist (Prof. Chilingar is a petroleum scientist) would agree with completely.

Earlier this week, the Ontario Human Rights Commission announced that it had requested information «into practices and activities of the Toronto Police Service between January 1st 2010 and June 30th 2017» using its inquiry powers under section 31 of the Human Rights Code, but had still not obtained it.

They wrote: «The provisions of the AHR Act concerning controlled activities, namely those involving assistance for human reproduction and related research activities, do not fall under the criminal law power, but belong to the jurisdiction of the provinces over hospitals, civil rights and local matters.»

The EHRC has power to participate in human rights cases before the courts and to seek judicial review of decisions raising human rights issues, but the legacy of history will encourage the new commissioners to keep equality as the dominant focus of its activity.

As more and more human activity relies on computing power, the need for said power is growing at an almost exponential rate.

Reading, England About Blog TheWeather Club is full of interesting and educational content that captures the many faces of the weather — its beauty, its power, its occasional absurdity and its fragility in the face of human activity.