Sentences with phrase «of ecosphere»

We are delighted to announce that Lisa Walker, CEO of Ecosphere +, has been recognised as a 2017 Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum

We have relatively strong national and global data on carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuel and cement production; accumulations in the atmosphere show unequivocally that emissions far exceed the sequestration capacity of the ecosphere.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

Footprint accounting is thus based on the premise that the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere is associated with productive ecosystem area.

Yes, it's a complex system, but in terms of the ability of the ecosphere to support the current stock of living beings, I think the system is pretty simple and can easily be monitored through observations of a single measure: the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

It was a hot summer morning when I mailed Ishita Khanna, the co-founder of Ecosphere, a social enterprise in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.

The human community is part of a larger society of living things, of an ecosphere, and even of the total biosphere.

Most recently, they have sought to wrestle — together with people of other faiths — with the awful issues everyone must confront today - nuclear war, hunger, disease, the despoiling of the ecosphere — and to reach into the various traditions as possible sources of values and visions for facing such horrors.

At the very time we humans have been learning more about the ecology of all planetary life, we have been discovering to our horror how much we are now upsetting the delicate balances in the living systems of the ecosphere.

Not exact matches

As competition in the online video industry abounds, the space represents just one facet of an increased investment by YouTube back into its own creator ecosphere.

The YouTube Spaces are just one facet of an increased investment by the site back into its own ecosphere.

There are still many critical components of this budding ecosphere that need to be built before it is accessible to the masses.

Unlike most other cryptocurrencies, Sparkle Coin is part of a three company ecosphere for buying, trading, and using your Sparkle Coins.

On top of all this, all electric power generation produces heat, and too much generation will raise the earth's temperature, possibly enough to cause partial melting of the polar ice caps and wreak havoc on the world's ecosphere.

Heather's an expert at using online social networks for advocacy and fundraising, and her NonProfit Tech 2.0 site will join a healthy ecosphere that already includes sites like FrogLoop, Beth's Blog, Community Organizer 2.0, NonProfit Marketing / Getting Attention and of course e.politics.

The iconic sugar maple, one of the most economically and ecologically important trees in the eastern United States and Canada, shows signs of being in a significant decline, according to research results published today (Oct. 21, 2015) in the open - access journal Ecosphere.

Dr. Hsiao - Hsuan «Rose» Wang, an AgriLife Research scientist at the wildlife and fisheries sciences department's ecological systems laboratory, is lead author on the recently published «Quantitative models of Rhipicephalus ticks: historical review and synthesis,» which appeared in the Sept. 14 Ecosphere Journal.

An elegantly stitched romance of vector - crossing emotional neediness, it's set in an evocative ecosphere of haute couture fashion.

Because even with that change it's easy enough to get access to your books, or was, anyhow, until recent changes that I foresaw happening when I moved all my content out of the Nook ecosphere.

Barnes & Noble has its own set of libraries that software developers must include and use, providing the unified experience the company wants to bring to its little ecosphere, making the look and feel of apps jibe with the rest of the system.

My first solo trip took me to the high Himalayas of Spiti; I was on a sabbatical from my corporate job, and spent a month volunteer traveling, helping the local organisation Spiti Ecosphere set up a «monk for a month» program for travellers.

I have got a question regarding the rate of adaption to new temperatures by plants and ecospheres in general.

In the case of both asteroid impact prevention and reduction of CO2 emissions, there are vast positive ancillary effects: leaps in scientific knowledge in the first, cleaning up the ecosphere in the second.

By «better» I mean lower - priced, reliable and less of a threat to our ecosphere.

The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.

It is the pernicious, possibly irreversible destabilization of Earth's ecosphere that deserves the immediate attention and effective concern of the family of humanity and community of nation - states.

There's ample uncertainty but the study, published today in the peer - reviewed online journal Ecosphere, points to a variety of outcomes, with fires likely becoming more frequent in zones you might expect — like temperate North America and particularly the western United States — but rarer in the tropics.

Perhaps now is the time to openly discuss one topic: the guardianship of the integrity of Earth's ecosphere, its biodiversity and its natural resources.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report's Premium Sponsors: the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the World Bank Biocarbon Fund, Face the Future, and New Forests; Sponsors: Althelia Ecosphere and Baker & McKenzie; and additional support from the UK Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Code — all of which enable Ecosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem service finance.

[In many cases today, disputes concern the negative direct or indirect effects of technology on humanity or on the ecosphere.

magazine «When Annie Leonard came to work at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, she brought a special character — a dynamic curiosity; a willingness to scour the countries of the Earth to understand and document solid and chemical wastes» production, consumption, and disposal; the intellectual and emotional intelligence to mobilize everyone she could reach to respect the ecosphere; and health and safety concerns.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report's Premium Sponsors: the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the World Bank BioCarbon Fund, Face the Future, and New Forests; Sponsors: Althelia Ecosphere and Baker & McKenzie; and additional support from the UK Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Code — all of which enable Ecosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem service finance.

Christian del Valle is a founder and Managing Partner of Althelia Ecosphere and Althelia Climate Fund, dedicated investment platforms for financing sustainable land - use, ecosystem services and REDD + in particular.

Sustainability writ large is the expression of grand co-evolutionary forces that have shaped our planet and the ecosphere.

Althelia Ecosphere has successfully met industry best practice requirements in 2016, as set out in the ICROA Code of Best Practice for Carbon Management Services.

As the wood rots, it has an incredible capacity for holding water, and creates a nifty little ecosphere to promote a healthy soil web of microbes, fungi, insects and worms.

Understand the ecosphere The four layers of earth are the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

Ecosphere + today announces several key appointments to its senior team, bringing a broad set of skills and experience to launch its sales and marketing operations

But the risk of «pushing the rope up the hill» has shifted from CLOC to the ecosphere, and that means tech companies are responsible for pushing their clients to adopt and adapt technology that has been created specifically with their needs and capacities in mind.

Those attending will remember that the 2017 conference ended on a high note with a call to action from CLOC co-founder Mary O'Carroll of Google, promising that the mission going forward included a commitment to support both CLOC's members in legal departments who are exploring and driving the hard work of change, as well as the larger professional ecosphere of law firms, legal service providers and law schools looking for ways be more valuable to their corporate clients who are demanding improved performance, accountability, and value from their extended CLOC family.

Together, Sparkle Coin, VCoin Exchange and VCoinMall.com make up a unique economic ecosphere that connects the latest blockchain technologies with existing business platforms and networks to drive adoption of cryptocurrencies for real business transactions.

Founded by business and technology veterans, Sparkle Coin is designed to be a part of a new economic ecosphere, built on a solid foundation of proven business fundamentals essential for real - world transactions.

«Cryptocurrencies were always envisioned to revolutionize global financial markets and the way consumers and businesses transact,» said Victor Wong, founder and CEO of Sparkle Coin, Inc. «Sparkle Coin bridges the gap between cryptocurrencies and traditional business by developing an economic ecosphere comprised of an asset - backed cryptocurrency, transacted through a powerful currency exchange, with an outward facing cryptocurrency payment gateway allowing virtually all merchants to accept cryptocurrency though an online shopping mall or directly on their own websites.»

Ecosphere + (E +) is part of the impact investment Althelia Climate Fund, and is led by Lisa Walker, with a mission to grow the global demand for carbon reductions, thereby creating an incentive to prevent the destruction of critical ecological systems, such as rainforests, which balance the carbon in our environment.

DPRK has reportedly made multiple attempts to exploit cyber security weaknesses in the crypto ecosphere of its enemies.

HomeKit is Apple's attempt to make the promises of the smart home a reality, and to do it the company appears to be making use of the same philosophy that made its App Store a force to be reckoned with back in 2008 — namely, a stringent approval process and an ever - growing ecosphere of devices.

Karlsruhe, Germany About Blog Blue Yonder, a company that uses algorithms developed for processing the data created as part of the CERN project for predictive modelling, regularly posts updates on its work and developments in Germany's Big Data ecosphere.