Sentences with phrase «meet human needs for»

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy and ecosystem services.

With enough energy in one hour's worth of global sunlight to meet all human needs for a year, solar technologies are an ideal solution.

Yet fossil fuels, especially coal, will remain a significant source of energy to meet human needs for the foreseeable future.

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of Earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy, and ecosystem services.

First published in 1975, Worldwatch Reports (formerly Worldwatch Papers) use the best available science to focus on the challenges that climate change, resource degradation, and population growth pose for meeting human needs for energy, food, and livelihoods.

Not exact matches

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

At one point in 2005, criticism from the community that Mozilla managers were being too secretive led Baker to hold a moratorium on all corporate - only meetings for several months; it only ended when managers needed to discuss a human resources question too personal to share with everyone.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

Ultimately, a healthy society creates expanding demand for business, as more human needs are met and aspirations grow.

Since human beings are created by God and for God, we must come into contact with Him to receive what we need for our fulfilment and happiness, since the material world alone is insufficient to meet all our needs.

Were it to be destroyed overnight, who would provide the minimal necessities for life in a society far removed from the soil or the sea, where basic human needs are met?

The self system plays a powerful role in enabling persons to meet the two sets of basic human needs — the need for bodily satisfaction (food, sleep, sex, closeness to people) and interpersonal security (esteem, belongingness, acceptance, the power to meet one's needs).

The discovery that more human needs could be met was good news for Christians.

I hope I would remember to turn sincerely and expectantly to God for guidance as to how to do more — intelligently — to meet the immediate human needs of the multitude, but to take practical inspired steps for healing the fears, hates, misunderstanding, and cruelties that bring suffering to humanity» («Some Questions and Answers about Christian Science,» Christian Science Sentinel, September 2, 1985, pp. 1508 - 09).

The existence of the churches is not in jeopardy; they are and will continue to be for large numbers of persons the only accessible institutions that will meet their need to be affirmed in their identity and sense of belonging in both a human and a divine dimension.

Our profession need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value for human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does not meet the requirements for a psy disorder.

The gospel insists that human beings are the greatest good, and that everyone's needs are best met when we live in community, caring for each other rather than looking out for Number One.

If we met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable not to his human vanity, for which he would need to do bitter penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go about it?

Family and community meet the natural human need and desire for solidarity.

I preach unorthodox, even heretical sermons fairly often, and, three years ago, the board took the results of the sale of some property, over a million dollars, and set the proceeds aside... for the meeting of human need in this city.

The chief justification for any work is that it meets genuine human needs.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

Our profession need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value for human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does not meet the requirements for a psyc disorder.

We have enormous, expanding resources of scientific knowledge and technical know - how that could be used for meeting human needs.

There would still be need for work to meet human needs, but God has provided forms of law and government that man's life may be ordered, sin restrained, and the necessities of communal existence met.

There are luminous moments in beholding a very young infant in which one is aware of an absolute, timeless, pervasive peace which stems in part from a consciousness that, at least for a very short while, it is within one's power to meet every need of another human being.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

Both recognize the importance both of scientific knowledge and of meeting the physical needs of human beings, but both deny that either this kind of knowledge or material wealth is of primary importance for true human well - being.

Sustainable growth allows for unlimited substitution as long as human nutritional needs are met.

In the context of our social situation, revelation means the promise of justice for and liberation of the oppressed and the poor, of all whose basic needs have not been met and whose human dignity has not been recognized.

To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...

If it's okay for animals to leave their young to their own devices in order to meet their needs, human parents need to be told this is ok too (within reason - I would never advocate leaving a baby or child on its own at home, for example).

«The Milwaukee campaign uses a simplistic approach that ignores human nature and sets parents up for unsafe practices as they meet their baby's needs in the middle of the night.

API Response to the Milwaukee Campaign «The Milwaukee campaign uses a simplistic approach that ignores human nature and sets parents up for unsafe practices as they meet their baby's needs in the middle of the night.

Most of us are here because of our «You are the best parent for your child» philosophy, that reminds us that we need to pay attention and listen and watch and learn about who our specific little human is, from the moment we meet that child, so that we can parent that specific child they way they need to be parented.

Interestingly, but not really surprising, when a human infants inherent need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.

HMBANA defines a milk bank as» a service established for the purpose of recruiting and collecting milk from donors, and processing, screening, storing, and distributing donated milk to meet the specific needs of individuals for whom human milk is prescribed by health care providers who are licensed to prescribe.»

Some infants do not have enough natural reserves of iron, a mineral necessary for normal human growth and development, to meet their needs.

Meeting our infant's biological need for human contact is not about following a particular parenting philosophy.

Getting to a place where being human outweighs meeting social norms and expectations will not only begin the process to reducing negative mental health outcomes for mothers, but it will also help develop the supports that mothers need to be a model for positive self care and mental health for their families.

When we learn all we can about meeting our infants» biological needs for optimal physical and emotional human development we can give our babies and ourselves, as parents, the best possible beginning.

Similarly, you can possibly train a baby to lie quietly in bed rather than to cry out for a parent, but you won't meet the need that triggered the cry — whether that need is for breastmilk or just human company and reassurance.

Human milk is the natural food for babies, uniquely meeting their changing needs.

All of these factors have led T - Bird and I to a new bedtime routing which meets her vital need for human touch and connection... and also provides something invaluable to me.

This fact sheet describes how PATH supports Kenyan partners to adapt our existing human milk banking model, called the Mother - Baby Friendly Initiative Plus (MBFI +), to meet the country's needs for newborn care.

WH: Well we are asking the Security Council to have a formal meeting and then to have a strong statement from the Security Council, really as strong a statement as we can put together from the United Nations Security Councils, as well as calling for a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for which we need sixteen of the forty seven members to, to call a special meeting on Libya.

«It certainly is not an insignificant amount of money, so as people are potentially looking for ways to grow us out of this and meet some of the human service needs we have to meet, it's a way to do it without raising taxes.»

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

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