Sentences with phrase «meeting human needs»

I described why these are cheaper and better as a way of meeting human needs.

«Inhabit; A Permaculture Perspective is a documentary film project that explores the tools for and promise of meeting human needs while also caring for and regenerating ecosystem health.

We're combining all of that work with some work by a wonderful woman named Gwen Hallsmith, who wrote a manual on how to implement the UN's Earth Charter, and a book called «The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems.»

It is as if the only way a policy can be for something is if it is set against the backdrop of something more pressing and important than trivial matters of meeting human needs and ambitions.

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.

There's only one problem behind this statement — it's only true in crony economies, where connections to siphon tax dollars matter more than meeting human needs.

Prosperity lies within the control of individuals who apply their acumen to the situation, and come up with creative ways of meeting human needs.

Amid the noise and news, we often forget that there are businesses going on, quietly meeting human needs in exchange for a profit.

The progress will likely come, though, and the process of meeting human needs as our world develops will persist, leading to better overall lives on our planet.

• Culture: Different ways of meeting human needs; people share and borrow culture; social skills.

Amanda Gurung, BTI's Education Lab Coordinator recently traveled to classrooms in Seneca Falls, Fillmore, Fredonia, and Long Island, NY to support trained teachers and engage students in discussions about the importance of plants in meeting human needs.

Growing food organically is the least harmful way of meeting human needs whilst allowing insects, birds and other wildlife to survive.

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.

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

An institution is vital to the extent that it is meeting human needs.

The economist Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion, also argues that meeting human needs requires sustaining solidarity — what he terms «mutual regard.»

Christian opposition to greed and wealth had never been based on the view that meeting human needs was undesirable.

Although the jargon is new, the role of «faith «based» institutions in meeting human needs has a long history, as is admirably demonstrated by these essays from City Journal.

Although, admittedly, taking positions is cheaper than directly meeting human needs through what the «peace and justice» enthusiasts derisively call «charity.»

Companies that operate in the Biotechnology industry primarily make use of living organisms or molecular and cellular techniques to provide chemicals, food and services that meet human needs.

In the long run, these ways of reducing our use of exhaustible resources and our contribution to pollution also save us money, and this can be used to meet human needs that are more urgent than our comfort.

How does he meet human need?

Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.

Perhaps it is our inability to face the prospect of our own death, our own intimate participation in the ways of nature, that causes us to be uncomfortable with killing animals to meet human needs.

By parable, teaching, and example, the New Testament speaks repeatedly of forgiveness and compassion, which require sensitivity, concern, and willingness to act to meet 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.

Love of the neighbor is shown not only by the way a disciple lives, which we shall consider first, but also, as we shall see in the second section of the chapter, by the combined efforts of the followers of Jesus to meet human need and, third, by attempts to change the structures of society.

To serve God and the neighbour is to meet human needs.

Because the One Spirit includes even the materialists, though they reject this science, the mental act called «prayer» lifts consciousness when believed in; directed spiritually, prayer overcomes negative thinking, doubt, fear, directs, guides, improves, empowers, meets the human need and magnifies the consciousness of the divine Presence, Love.

In this view, nature, especially construed as raw, unfettered, unpredictable power, is there to be mastered, overcome, shaped, and directed to meet human needs and ends.

The idea of shifting to a different economic system, one that would meet human needs on a sustainable basis, is viewed as naive and utopian.

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.

The world requires that both should be kept to a minimum, sufficient to meet human needs.

The case study demonstrates how accurate scientific data and economically feasible technological assessments can provide core support for policy that meets human needs.

The goal, to my mind, can be to build the foundations of an energy system sufficient to meet human needs, with limited environmental costs, as the world heads toward and beyond a mid-century crest of some 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

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.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

meteorological drought — lack of precipitation agricultural drought — lack of soil moisture, or hydrologic drought - reduced streamflow or groundwater levels reservoir or reserve drought — lack of sufficient water in reservoirs to meet human needs or historical dry periods; a water deficiency

A drought in Texas to a meteorologist is not the same as a drought in California because a true drought in California is a lack of enough water in northern Cal reservoirs to meet human needs over the anticipated dry period.

«Many present efforts to guard and maintain human progress, to meet human needs, and to realize human ambitions are simply unsustainable — in both the rich and poor nations.

I am an award winning designer of «integrated urban water supplies» — integrating stormwater management, water supply sources and sewage treatment and recycling to meet human needs efficiently while conserving downstream environments.

Promoting sustainable land use to meet human needs and protect the diversity of plants, animals, and natural communities.

A number of the comments here focus on the amount of annual precipitation as of an increase in mean precipitation means more water will be available to meet human needs.

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

In other words, since resource pessimism is a fantasy in the real world, the CIC is trying to get governments to create limits to growth through government fiat, thus restricting the availability and use of fossil fuels to meet human needs.

Resource pessimists, on the other hand, believe that the availability of physical and environmental resources will soon constrain the ability to meet human needs and therefore that conservation is required immediately if not sooner.

It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

Resource optimists believe that the primary constraints on resource availability are the ingenuity of humans in finding new and innovative ways to meet the resource requirements to meet human needs.

Worldwatch, which aims to «empower decision makers to build an ecologically sustainable society that meets human needs» have upped the stakes:

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.