Sentences with phrase «of earth policy»

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.

Lester Brown is founder and director of the Earth Policy Institute and a regular contributor to TreeHugger.

Lester Brown is President of the Earth Policy Institute and author of the newly published book World on the Edge.

The Saudis then plan to use their oil wealth to import virtually all the grain consumed by their Canada - sized population of nearly 30 million people,» notes Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.

The following are links to sites offering a variety of translated articles of Earth Policy Institute.

After all, as president of the Earth Policy Institute (and founder and former leader of Worldwatch Institute) Brown has been studying the big picture for a while.

Lester R. Brown is president of the Earth Policy Institute and author of Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton, 2013) and Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.

In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.

Last week, Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in an analysis had a similar take on old age and oil usage.

Lester Brown, founder of Worldwatch, is now founder and leader of the Earth Policy Institute, a similar locus of environmental bafflegab.

LESTER R. BROWN, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as «one of the world's most influential thinkers» and as «the guru of the global environmental movement» by The Telegraph of Calcutta.

In their letter accompanying the book they wrote, «The enclosed book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, contains the best analysis of what Chuck Sloan inherently knew.

Lester R. Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.

«After careful consideration of my life at 80 years,» said Brown, «and with profound appreciation to my staff, collaborators and supporters, I have decided to step down as president of the Earth Policy Institute and end its work as of July 1, 2015.»

Lester R. Brown is President of the Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge.

Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, says the world must replace the 40 percent of its electricity that comes from coal with a like amount from wind, with 1.5 million wind turbines rated at two megawatts each.

Even as Iran's nuclear program raises the likelihood of yet another conflict in the Middle East, the bigger threat is a potential food crisis in the making, says Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute.

Those looking for more up - to - date information on the evolution of the Plan B model and progress toward its goals should tune into the website of the Earth Policy Institute, the think tank started by Brown in 2001 and currently used as a central node in the growing network of thousands of entities and individuals around the globe supportive of making Plan B into reality.

So in the May issue, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, he writes an essay in which he raises sort of the specter that potentially, in the decades to come, that if we are not careful, that these problems with maintaining a sufficient food supply could get bad enough that it actually would threaten the state of civilization globally; that it just could cause widespread chaos, cause a large number of failed states and trigger [an] enormous number of problems down the line.

Not exact matches

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

When you put a policy in place that serves one objective without considering the broader impact, you suffer from axis displacement disorder: That's when you believe the axis of the earth has shifted and now the world revolves around you.

The concept has since been adopted by the United Nations» Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), which grimly reported that two thirds of the earth's ecosystems are in decline and urged governments to adopt policies that «recognize the true value of nature.»

The level of central bank activity for the sole reason of 2 % inflation is a scorched earth monetary policy, and now they have to live with the consequence that they can't reverse themselves.

«It's the economic equivalent of flat - earth trade policy.»

So, no, Peace, I'm not bringing my «scorched earth» policy out of retirement, but tactical strikes aren't off the table for the deserving.

If the Church claims to represent God on earth, then we expect Godlike behaviour, otherwise, as in any viable organization, God should fire them because they are not representative of corporate policy.

is to disarm the national power based on communications technology and to shape the new regional and world institutions which should use the power of that technology to implement policies compatible with the care of the earth and humanity.

It all started a few years back when, as the senior editor of a Jerusalem - based journal of public thought, I ran into trouble on a 10,000 - word, brilliantly researched essay about Israeli social policy composed by the sweetest man on earth who, unfortunately wasn't a stellar writer.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

Current policy in Washington puts the U.S. on a collision course with the poor of the earth, both here and abroad.

If we took more of an interest in the making of our foreign policy, usually for the profit of our corporate overlords rather than for the safety of the American people, maybe we would know why, when bringing the lamp of liberty to the darker places of the earth, the United States invariably chooses for its allies the despots who operate their countries on the model of a prison or a jail.

Day's scorched - earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season - ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five - win campaign since 2013.

Earth Day Network's year - round mission is to broaden, diversify and activate the environmental movement worldwide, through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer campaigns.

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Lullaby Earth products purchased from other retailers follow the return policy of that retailer.

Craig Bennet, Friends of the Earth's director of policy and campaigns, comments on high speed rail

Friends of the Earth's director of policy and campaigns Craig Bennett responds to the public accounts committee's report on flood management in England, which warns of uncertainty about who will pay:

We need to broaden a coalition of progressive values to protect people against the scorched earth policy of the cuts...

Two of Governor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

(rare earth export restrictions, a broad range of import restrictions and other controversial protectionist policies)

Two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the state Capitol Monday, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

Political journalists on Twitter are making a very decent point: how on earth is Grayling going to pay for the policy of locking»em all up?

Martin Powell, head of campaigns at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, was an analytical chemist for the French nuclear industry before working for a range of charities in Latin America and the UK, including Friends of the Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the World Development Movement, including as co-chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Friends of the Earth described today's report as «damning», and urged the DfT to conduct a «root and branch» review of transport policy, beginning with its plans for airport expansion and road building.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

A Friends of the Earth spokesperson said: «It is great to see Tim Farron stepping up to support what is Lib Dem policy.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

I would not go as far as to call it a scorched earth policy, but we have big worries about the size of this.»