Sentences with phrase «new ecological issues»

I was glad to join, because I suspected that the convergence of new ecological issues and old issues of social justice called for fresh ideas, more radical than those of the traditional left or right.

Not exact matches

After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»

One of the finest collection of essays on ecological issues by a diverse group of authors, including representatives of process thought and creation centered spirituality, is the previously mentioned Joranson, Philip N., and Butigan, Ken, eds., Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Company, 1984).

He called for a new environmental solidarity to deal with ecological issues that transcend national jurisdictions and he insisted that a «right to a safe environment» be included in the Charter of Human Rights.

Her highest priority is to encourage scientific critical thinking by using the farm as a living laboratory to understand sustainability, climate change, and ecological issues throughout New England.

Meanwhile, in Australia, as summer temperatures hovered near 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) and murderous flames converted forests into carbon dioxide, a new book entitled Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population issued an unusual ecological battle cry: ignore all admonitions to conserve the country's increasingly scarce water supplies until the government eliminates «baby bonuses» in the tax code and clamps down on immigration.

NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called «the weird Thoreau» by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues.

The exhibition Open Source looks at a selection of artists, most of them working since 1990, who have utilized new technologies, embraced a reimagined future, confronted ecological issues, sifted through cyborgs and post humanism, commented on the economy, and mined the overall psychological impact and flux of our cultural moment.

looks at a selection of artists, most of them working since 1990, who have utilized new technologies, embraced a re-imagined future, confronted ecological issues, sifted through cyborgs and post humanism, commented on the economy, and mined the overall psychological impact and flux of our cultural moment.

The artist used these artworks to speak his mind about the existence of tensions and shifts in our economic framework, utilization of new technologies, ecological issues and the constant question of what comes after tomorrow.

Since 1970 Ukeles has been the non-salaried Artist in Residence for New York City's Sanitation Department, where she builds and orchestrates public projects that explore the social and ecological issues of waste management.

He sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of «ecological citizenship» as a precursor to progress on planet - scale environmental issues:

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.

It became a campaign issue, and in 2013, the new governor, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, signed a bill preserving the Northeast Ecological Corridor at an annual festival celebrating leatherback turtles in the town of Luquillo.

We hope to offer programming that meets a new generation of green leaders where they are, to build an environmental movement full of creative and dynamic change agents who are tackling the most pressing contemporary ecological issues.