Sentences with phrase «new green revolution»

Meet the leaders of the new green revolution — from college students to reverends to high - finance investors.

Reversing soil carbon loss is a new green revolution where conventional agriculture is hitting a productivity barrier with exhausted soils and increasingly expensive inputs.

Today, India needs a new Green Revolution.

A new green revolution is not going to happen.

A new green revolution is starting, based upon traditional breeding but with an eye on the genome.

In an op - ed last month in the The New York Times, Nobel laureate Phillip A. Sharp of MIT, a past AAAS president, and Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO emeritus, urged more robust funding for the AFRI program as one means to promote a new green revolution.

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More recently, with the Punjab as the locus of one of the most successful areas of the «green revolution,» the sect has experienced upward mobility accompanied by a new burst of militant fundamentalism.

India's «green revolution» seemed to have passed these people by, since they didn't own land, and the new farming machines simply took away their old jobs.

(Elements and aspects of this new consciousness, its forms and contents, can be found in the following sources: William Braden, The Age of Aquarius (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970); Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Cultunew consciousness, its forms and contents, can be found in the following sources: William Braden, The Age of Aquarius (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970); Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-CultuNew York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-CultuNew York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-CultuNew York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture.

Young John (1991) Sustaining the Earth: The past, present and future of the green revolution Kensington: New South Wales University Press.

Tags: new farm, organic certification, health, organic food, Green Revolution, Heifer Project, Mary - Howell and Klaas Martens, women in ag

With this new program, IRRI is geared to reach farther and wider that it did during the first Green Revolution.

Genetically engineered rice as part of the second Green Revolution is repeating the mistakes of the Green Revolution, intensifying the deficiencies that are killing people, while adding new hazards in terms of ecological and health risks.

Now, new moms, and their babies, can join in the green revolution movement.

With the seeming agronomic conditions necessary for the Green Gold of almond and the legendary entrepreneurial spirit of Asanteman, I see another cocoa revolution coming, more mighty Kumasi «Abrofo Nkatie» houses coming from the new Green Gold which the coming CPP government would very carefully midwife.

The new African Green Revolution would initially subsidize peasant farmers» access to high - yield technologies and thereby at least double grain yields.

NEW DELHI — Hoping to kick - start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to develop wheat and maize varieties that thrive in warmer temperatures and on degraded land.

Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times columnist Tom Friedman discusses his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — And How It Can Renew AmeriNew York Times columnist Tom Friedman discusses his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — And How It Can Renew Amerinew book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — And How It Can Renew America.

It also implies that the apparent loss of genetic diversity following the introduction of high - yielding Green Revolution wheat and rice varieties in the 1960s and 1970s, and attending the rapid adoption of superior GM crops today, is far from a new phenomenon.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

The new rice also remedies one of the problematic legacies of the original «green revolution»: over-use of fertilizer.

But going green and clean is the best way to remain an economic powerhouse, argues Thomas L. Friedman in his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2green and clean is the best way to remain an economic powerhouse, argues Thomas L. Friedman in his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).

This is a delicious «starter smoothie» if you're new to the green smoothie revolution.

In a speech to an audience that is expected to include companies like Amazon, Google, Capgemini, Rolls Royce, Fujitsu, KPMG, Barclays, Tarmac, EDF and Deloitte, Greening will urge businesses to work in a new partnership with government to deliver a skills revolution, and sign up to a statement of action with government.

But Education Secretary Justine Greening, also addressing the British Chambers of Commerce, says she wants firms to back a «skills revolution» and her plans for new technical qualifications.

If we come up with new technology or practices that greatly boost crop yields, creating a second Green Revolution, doesn't that simply boost the planet's carrying capacity?

The speech was very traditional commencement fare, brimming with encouragement about pursuing public service and helping propel a new «green revolution.»

There is also no question that the world's most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ahead of the hunger curve.But the answer to this issue lies in the new «Post-Modern Green Revolution» not in the historic «Green Revolution» approach where yields are artificially increased by importing the practices of genetically engineered seeds and petroleum - based fertilizer.

In her presidential bid, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D - N.Y.) forcefully advocated for «green - collar» jobs, stating that they could «unleash a wave of innovation, create millions of new jobs, enhance our security, and lead the world to a revolution in how we produce and use energy.»

According to a new study, we're poised for an unprecedented explosion of green jobs that will boost the US economy and create a revolution in clean tech development.

Could Obama's stimulus have really sparked a direly needed energy revolution in the United States?It might have gotten the ball rolling a little faster, at least... the New York Times» Green Inc. proclaims that renewable fever is sweeping state legislatures.

BILL MCKIBBEN ON FRIEDMAN & PHEVS: In the highly - regarded New York Review of Books, McKibben reviews Thomas Friedman's new book, «Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America» http://www.nybooks.com/­articles/­220New York Review of Books, McKibben reviews Thomas Friedman's new book, «Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America» http://www.nybooks.com/­articles/­220new book, «Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America» http://www.nybooks.com/­articles/­22027.

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Founder & CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance — which is part news agency, part green energy lobbying organisation, and part environmental NGO — tweeted a challenge to Bjorn Lomborg, who has criticised claims that China is leading the clean energy «revolution».

While attending the major farming event in the Scottish Highlands: the Black Isle Show, Rural Affairs Minister Richard Lochhead explained the new Agri - Renewables Strategy will «ensure that land managers can benefit from the renewables revolution and unlock the green energy potential of their land».

MORE ABOUT «HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America,» Thomas Friedman's book new book.

Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, often described as the world's most influential journalist, has a new book out this week, «Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.&raqNew York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, often described as the world's most influential journalist, has a new book out this week, «Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.&raqnew book out this week, «Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.»

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

Right now, we're just waiting for Mr. Gore's stirring new songs for the Green revolution and the dashing uniforms he designed for the brave servants of the «collective will» to be unveiled.

They can choose to anger the greens, join the shale gas revolution, and go for a low - carbon, domestic, abundant source of energy that will help to regenerate the economy of Lancashire — in effect, launch a new phase of the industrial revolution in which that area was a key region.

As you imply, the idea that you can have your cake (be green) and eat it (have a new, employment - generating industrial revolution) is probably complete nonsense.

It seems the last couple of years have marked the end of the old polluting industrial revolution and the dawn of a new clean, green industrial revolution.

Earlier this week, Phillip A. Sharp and Alan Leshner argued in the New York Times that we need a new «Green Revolution,» a step - change in agricultural productiviNew York Times that we need a new «Green Revolution,» a step - change in agricultural productivinew «Green Revolution,» a step - change in agricultural productivity.

Rather than creating the «Green Industrial Revolution'that the Labour and current coalition governments promised, they merely made it much more difficult to build new capacity of any kind in sufficient time either to meet the targets they had set, or to close the energy gap that their incautious policymaking had created.

In case you were at all concerned that there is any difference between political parties, anyone with sufficient faculties to recall events as far back as 2009 will notice the similarities of Huhne's «Green Deal» and the Brown government's «Green New Deal» in which precisely the same promises about a «green industrial revolution» were Green Deal» and the Brown government's «Green New Deal» in which precisely the same promises about a «green industrial revolution» were Green New Deal» in which precisely the same promises about a «green industrial revolution» were green industrial revolution» were made:

And as the ever astute Charlie McElwee observes, 210 billion yuan, or 24 billion Euros, is 50 percent of the green investment recommended by a new McKinsey report «China's Green Revolution.&rgreen investment recommended by a new McKinsey report «China's Green Revolution.&rGreen Revolution.»

There was a time when the green cell phone revolution seemed right around the corner — corn - based plastic phones that you could plant when you got a new model.

The CCPA released a new big - picture report by myself and student researcher Amanda Card calling for a Green Industrial Revolution.

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