Sentences with phrase «lead the change toward»

Let's build something better together and lead the change toward gender equality.

These questions are at the heart of Bob Doppelt's Leading Change Toward Sustainability.

After reading Leading Change Toward Sustainability, those seeking change can't help but have a more clear understanding of what it means to say: «Our goal is to become a truly sustaining organization.»

Leading Change Toward Sustainability is built on such convictions.

Not exact matches

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

But regardless of which side you lean toward, there are entrepreneurs leading the way in social impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a profit.

While this is a pretty big departure from the life I led in Vancouver, the truth is, I was ready for a change and consider it well worth the effort to be with Nate, working toward our joint goals.

However, we still think it's important for the animal movement to target some outreach toward individuals, as a shift in public attitudes could lead to more institutional change.

In the fourth and fifth cases, needed changes on both sides can lead toward confluence.

In addition, I believe there is a need for specialized institutions that will bring together a group of theologians and a variety of secular futurists trained in the various sciences and the humanities to anticipate future developments, to elaborate visions of ideal futures, and to devise strategies for effecting social changes leading toward their attainment.

The persuasiveness of religious programs toward change appear to be greatest when they are viewed by a person who is in a state of attitude imbalance or transition and seeking new forms of gratification for his or her needs; when they are viewed by a person for whom religious faith has always been a viable, if not vital, option; when the options being presented are seen as realistic and leading to a desirable end; when opportunity for demonstration exists in proximate distance to the viewing situation; and when the attitude or behavior is not central to the individual's self - concept and ego - functioning.

Co-founded and jointly led by Stanford University and The Culinary Institute of America, the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative is a working group of leading scholars, foodservice business leaders, and executive chefs from invited colleges and universities who are accelerating efforts to move Americans toward healthier, more sustainable, plant - forward diets.

«The Art of Yoga Project (AYP) has a mission to lead teen girls in the California juvenile justice system toward accountability to self, others and community by providing practical tools to effect behavioral change.»

Toward that goal, Mass Audubon is leading by example and integrating climate change into our mission through Conservation, Education, and Advocacy.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

Sen. Toni Atkins became the first woman and first LGBT person to lead the California Senate on Wednesday, pledging to work toward changing the Capitol culture amid a reckoning over sexual misconduct.

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda, a graduate student in astrophysics at MIT and the lead author of the paper, thus went looking for sunspots on Kepler - 30 that were situated parallel to the equator, and when he found one, he waited until the spot was turned toward Earth and closely scrutinized how the star's light output changed.

Based on these findings, the researchers argue that terrorist attacks may ultimately lead conservatives to consolidate their existing priorities, making them resistant to change; at the same time, such attacks may prompt a shift in liberals» priorities toward more prejudiced attitudes.

Warming winter temperatures led to rapid environmental changes that allowed the northward expansion of Neolithic farmers toward mainland Europe, and the rapid population of the continent.

I did feel highly energized toward the end of the five days, so I'm going to try to pinpoint a certain diet change that led me there (although perhaps cutting back on my caffeine intake helped me not feel so lethargic).

If the primary metabolic change that occurs during fasting or a ketogenic diet is a wholesale shift away from glucose and toward fatty acids and ketones for fuel, with the resultant lowering of blood glucose and insulin levels and restoration of insulin sensitivity, then reduced carbohydrate consumption should lead to similar neuroprotective effects.

With infinite care, sage wisdom, and practical knowledge, Joseph guided me toward embracing significant changes in mind, body and spirit which have led to a positive transformation simply impossible on my own.

These two facts together led me to half - joke on Twitter that maybe states or the feds should change their approach toward evidence.

Inspired by his own experience, Jin began working with ELL students as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities when his involvement with social change theater led him toward education and neglected communities.

Education reformers faced with failing schools and districts tend toward one of two camps: The Incrementalists hold that meaningful improvement can only happen slowly, with soul - wrenching culture change leading to instructional change and eventual student success.

We think of this work in four interwoven work areas: WHO can lead the work; WHAT promising practices they can use, HOW they can use them to make deep and sustainable change, and how they can MEASURE and track progress toward their goals.

If you want your data to lead you toward making meaningful changes, an important principle to follow is triangulation.

Major Forum: Toward a More Practice - Based Preparation of Elementary Mathematics Teachers A panel of leading experts discussed the current knowledge base on teaching and learning in elementary mathematics and implications for how preparation programs must change to align with the knowledge base.

Acceptable alternatives lead teachers through (not just to) the change process by allowing for more than one step toward the ideal, and while it is possible that some may believe that the acceptable alternative is the desirable, it is important to be clear that this is the first of several steps forward.

There has to be an implicit expectation that voice leads toward action, to a collaborative plan for change.

Robert Manwaring Extreme Makeover: Reading Edition Seven significant changes led this school on the path toward achievement.

Even slight bumps and changes in the road surface would lead the TL's nose to dip disconcertingly toward the next lane.

We're a group of book editors on a mission to bring quality, life - changing, entertaining books to the world's readers by leading more serious authors toward publishing success.

My normal schedule mixed one - on - one interactions with sitting in on panels and keynote presentations; the changing emphasis of the conference, rather away from hearing from mutual fund managers and strategists, and toward the business concerns of the advisors, led me to focus exclusively on talking with interesting folks.

The changed investing practices of leading investment banks reinforces the tendency toward the creation of IPOs Before the late 1970s - early 1980s, most investment banks worked only for fees, while employing their own capital only in their own investment banking / broker dealer activities.

The hope then is that other states will adopt similar protections, says Elizabeth Oreck, national manager of puppy mill initiatives for Best Friends Animal Society * — who believes these positive changes may come incrementally, but they're coming, and they are leading toward something good.

Acquirers all across the globe are preparing to participate in this change by scooping up a selection from small studios through leading publishers; two multibillion dollar pieces have already been taken off the board and moves toward the acquisition of a third are now in progress.

Sea Change was part of a breakthrough group of early «transitional» works that Pollock made in 1947, which led away from figuration toward a fully abstract application of his drip technique.

For instance, changes in ocean convection over the north Atlantic would affect the jet stream, which would have a dramatic effect upon regional precipitation, probably leading to acute drought in the northern hemisphere, which will weaken and push the northern jet stream toward the Arctic.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

The potential for changes to the federal PURPA law under a Trump administration and a GOP - led Congress helped push solar developers toward a new paradigm, said Chris Carmody of the North Carolina Clean Energy Business Alliance, a trade group pushing the bill.

Lead - lag relationships involving regional sea ice and air temperature are systematically evaluated, with an eye toward the ice - temperature feedbacks that may influence climatic change.

Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener pChange Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener pchange on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

The plan not only sought to help cut the emissions driving climate change, but also promised to lead the US toward a healthy and sustainable future powered by cleaner energy.

Toward the end of the year, COP21 led to a universally adopted and legal binding agreement on climate change: the Paris Agreement.

News like the disintegration of an ice shelf the size of Rhode Island a month ago conjures a vision that a warming world will lead to doom by drowning — not from melting ice shelves, which like melting ice in a glass do not change water levels, but from melting ice sheets sending their fresh water flowing toward the sea.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading international body for the assessment of climate change, is working toward a future release of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), due for finalization inChange, the leading international body for the assessment of climate change, is working toward a future release of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), due for finalization inchange, is working toward a future release of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), due for finalization in 2014.