Sentences with phrase «members of a sustainable society»
It can also affect their capacity to be successful learners and active contributing members of a sustainable society.
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Theresa has been an active member of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society's Farm Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic farmers.
He holds positions on various international advisory bodies (eg the Sustainable Rice Platform) and is member of the prestigious Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.
With the Society of Authors advising their members that publishing contracts are no longer fair or sustainable, my belief is that the predicted growth in self - publishing will now come from authors who are currently under contract.»
Mary Toy of Destinations Belize and is a past secretary of the Placencia Chapter of the Belize Tourism Industry Association, a founder and past president of the Placencia Humane Society, a founder and secretary of the Placencia Sidewalk Fund, founder and current co-chair of Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development, and an inactive member of the Missouri and Illinois Bar Associations.
Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.
To believe that Mann is right, you have to believe that the developer of the first satellite global temperature record, and the winner of the International Meetings on Statistical Climatology achievement award, and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, and the co-editor of Forecast Verification: A Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science, and the co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, and a member of the UN Secretary - General's High Level Group on Sustainable Energy, and the Professor of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute of Berlin Free University, and the Professor of Climate and Culture at King's College, London, and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and the former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, and the director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, and three professors at the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, and the scientist at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term «global warming», and dozens more are all wrong, every single one of them.
The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI's Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon's REDD + program.
BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies, their supply chain partners, civil society organizations and authorities, to build a just and sustainable world.
We are a member of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) as well as the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, and the Clean Shipping Coalition, civil society observer groups that monitor negotiations in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectively.
«Outcomes are expected to include: a political declaration on pollution, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); resolutions and decisions adopted by Member States to address specific dimensions of pollution; voluntary commitments by governments, private sector entities and civil society organizations to clean up the planet; and the Clean Planet Pledge, a collection of individual commitments to take personal action to end pollution in all its forms.»
The Forum believes that it has an effective platform to augment and accelerate concrete action towards a more sustainable flow of infor - mation and content that empowers society,» said Cheryl Martin, Managing Director, Head of Indus - tries and Member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum.