Sentences with phrase «level environmental think»

Initially I assumed that they were just another high - level environmental think - tank and dismissed the conspiracy theories found on many website claiming that the CoR is a group of global elitists attempting to impose some kind of one world government.

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I think that the high level of compliance with the shade and other biodiversity and environmental criteria as well as the positive economic impacts outlined in the report (which, despite my criticisms, I believe are both considerable and meaningful) demonstrate that RA certification is both achievable, profitable, and beneficial to the environment... at least for the currently certified farms.

A recent study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows much higher levels of lead in the running water than previously thought.

I think they so, particularly for children who are very sensitive, emotionally reactive, anxious, or exposed to high levels of environmental stress.

Chemist and indoor air quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.

Although DNA methylation was originally thought to be a very stable modification, which once established in early life was then maintained throughout the life span of an individual, there is now growing evidence that the level of DNA methylation can be affected by a range of environmental factors such as parental health, diet and lifestyle.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

Chemist and indoor air quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.

«If indeed NAD levels fall with aging, the kidney may be a new window to thinking about how we study aging overall and may take us outside the world of acute injury to more broadly consider how the body deals with environmental stressors throughout life.»

Industry thinks you can expose people to a fair bit safely and environmental scientists are worried about even low levels of exposure.

Those of us who are used to thinking and writing about environmental affairs at a loftier level might learn a few valuable lessons from Gore about the nitty - gritty of real - life decision making.

«I think you'll find that the community — NRDC and the rest of the [environmental] community — are very well - prepared to take this on in multiple levels,» Doniger said, including technically and legally.»

Local officials claim this is proof that the government's environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80 % of the plateau to melt.

Elevated Lp (a) is thought to be a genetic factor and levels are not influenced by diet, exercise, weight loss, stress or other environmental factors.

Among the resources that can provide the operational support needed for high levels of renewable penetration in our energy mix, I think natural gas strikes the best balance between cost and environmental impact.

While it should be scary to be re-launching at this moment in time, we think that Nau's brand» sensibility plays very nicely into this on several levels quality, durability, timelessness of design and color, no logo and of course environmental and social value.

Although it's clearly probably our most pressing environmental problem, I also think that for many people, at the individual level, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around and make sense of it and affect change at the personal, day - to - day level.

Ray, I would think this requires an extremely substantial sea level rise in onder to qualify as a potential catastrophic environmental threat.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

Professor DeConto and co-author David Pollard, senior scientist at Penn State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, publish their new simulations in Nature and begin by thinking about sea level rise long before the emergence of humankind, let alone human civilisation.

Though Canada has yet to implement a complete plan for regulating environmental and energy efficiency standards in the home, a wide variety of incentive programs across all levels of government shows that the first steps toward a comprehensive ecological rethink of how consumers and businesses think about the home are underway.