Sentences with phrase «new environmentalists»

I wonder if the new environmentalists will be better or worse at reflecting on themselves than their ex-ideologists.

First up is the acclaimed annual Mill Valley Film Festival which will premiere the latest edition of the Emmy award - winning series «The New Environmentalists: from Myanmar to Scotland».

Goldman Prize Interim Executive Director Lorrae Rominger joined John Antonelli from Mill Valley Film Group for screenings of several film segments from The New Environmentalists, featuring the 2012 Goldman Prize winners.

Have new environmentalists responded to criticism from without the environmental movement, or to scientific developments and political failures?

The challenge for the new environmentalists is to emerge from this crisis of their own making into an era of growing scepticism, while keeping an eye on the consequences of their arguments.

The new environmentalists» point is that the environmental movement failed to protect the environment.

«Where's the cohesion of the new environmentalists?»

In 2007 he and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, coauthored a book, This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future.

5 @ 5: Everyday People (10/9 & 10/10) The New Environmentalists — from Peru to Tanzania — John Antonelli (co-director), Will Parrinello (co-director), Tom Dusenbery (co-director) Oddball — Joshua Moore (director), Liz Payne (editor & wife of Joshua Moore) Stolen Youth: Political Prisoner of the Dictatorship — Joshua Dylan Mellars (director), Sofia Englund (producer) Washed Away (10/10 only)-- Dana Nachman (director), Brandon Anderton (subject), Ian Reinhard (executive producer)

Not exact matches

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

Germany's car sector is anxiously waiting to see what transport and environmental policies will be adopted by the new government, which is set to include both pro-business liberals and hard - line environmentalists.

No wonder the New York Times, in a 2011 article, dubbed Grantham «the world's most powerful environmentalist.»

Not Keystone, the north - south route that's caught in the mess of U.S. politics, but Energy East, a cross-country line that would end at a new $ 300 - million Irving terminal in Saint John, N.B. Energy East has predictably come under fire from environmentalists.

Those reviews are seen by many government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as environmentalists, as cornerstones to ensuring the environment is taken into account when new construction projects are ordered.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

While it will still fund expansions of existing oilsands projects, environmentalists likened the new policy to similar announcements by BNP Paribas and ING Group

His government has been trying to balance the oil industry's desire to tap new markets with environmentalists» concerns.

The hope was that the payoff would come in the form of environmentalists easing up in their opposition of Alberta's oil industry; that this new, enlightened premier could be given the benefit of the doubt.

The decision came just days after a spill on TransCanada's existing Keystone line in South Dakota on Thursday sparked new attacks by environmentalists who pointed to the event as something the state could expect if the project is approved.

Friends may appreciate a new higher quality audio recording, thanks to the Extra Environmentalists, who donated a microphone.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Quite recently, a new book by the environmentalist philosopher, Max Oelschleger, testifies to this shift.

The idea is not entirely new, but echoes what the mass movements of the indigenous, environmentalists, feminists and all grassroots people have been saying for a long time.

Conversely, a young business school graduate seeking a career with one of Fortune magazine's «500» had better not advertise his or her career in the new politics, or views associated with the environmentalist, antinuclear or consumer movements.

A new Meat Free Monday campaign has been launched in Australia, with physicians, celebrities and environmentalists alike joining calls for Aussies to cut down on their meat intake.

Building golf courses, especially along the California coast, is always a tango between the competing interests of environmentalists and golfers, but only at Pebble Beach could it involve New Age mysticism, the threat of terminally ill children chaining themselves to trees and pitched dissertations on heart rot.

Sophie Uliano, New York Times best - selling author, healthy beauty advocate, and passionate environmentalist proclaims, «This is a must - have product for every mom with a baby.

If you're a staunch environmentalist you might say that cloth are best, although new information shows that biodegradable disposables may be the greenest option.

The New York Times today writes about environmentalists who are driving their families nutty with boring green gifts.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

Faced with opposition to their own road - building plans, Major commissioned a report seeking to disprove the theory beloved of environmentalists, that new roads simply induced new traffic.

The message: Cuomo is fully on board with those environmentalists who seek to block any project involving any use or expanded access to fossil fuels of any kind, at any time, in any place in New York State.

Separately, the governor said he expected environmentalists to criticize his decision to withdraw about $ 74 million from the environmental fund, but praise a new plan for making it easier to safely discard of electronic waste, such as old CD players.

Now, award - winning actor and environmentalist Mark Ruffalo wants to cast the focus on clean power in New York.

A wide coalition supported it, including anti-hunger groups, environmentalists and the New York Farm Bureau.

NYSUT claims: «New Yorkers Against Corruption (NYAC) is an unprecedented alliance of progressive activists, conservatives, environmentalists and labor organizations.»

And the distillation of the whole campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.

But this protest is different to the battles waged by environmentalists against new roads or runways.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Brian Kavanagh has been a leading environmentalist throughout his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly.

The New York Times backed Calone, saying he has «the stronger record as an environmentalist.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Gov.Cuomo said there will be no hydrofracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

Actress and environmentalist Sigourney Weaver is the narrator of a new video ad campaign urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to protect roughly 30,000 acres of new public land as motor - free wilderness.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

The Manhattan attorney says Gillibrand is speaking out of two megaphones: one to New Yorkers, and one to celebrities and environmentalists, and that the junior senator from New York should do more to support it.

New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step into its leadership and divest from fossil fuels.

On one side were environmentalists who were eager to see New York City embrace a policy that they believe would help stem the unsightly spread of plastic bags and deal a blow to the petroleum and plastics industry, a major culprit in pollution worldwide.

Cuomo as well as environmentalists and nearby residents have said for years they want to close the nuclear plant, which is less than 40 miles from New York City, for safety reasons.

Southold Town, Suffolk County and environmentalists have a new ally in their fight to preserve Plum Island: New York Stanew ally in their fight to preserve Plum Island: New York StaNew York State.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) >> A broad coalition of environmentalists, anti-hunger advocates and agriculture groups is urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving farmers a tax break...