Sentences with phrase «of a growing movement around»

Canadian designer Nathan Zhang is part of a growing movement around social responsibility sweeping China's major cities.

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Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

If the Bible is an ancient dialogue around the gradually growing picture of the character of God, fully revealed only in Jesus, it is also a dynamic conversation which, rather than ending with the finalisation of the canon of the Bible, continues beyond it and involves all of those who give themselves to Christ's ongoing redemptive movement.

There is a rapidly growing movement of people like this around the world who are following Jesus away from «institutional Christianity» and into a more relational way of being the church.

And I believe that the coffee industry — supplier of a globally ubiquitous product grown by millions of people around the world — has a very special and central role in the promotion and evolution of the organic movement.

While a growing appreciation of movement in and around the box has certainly helped, the fact he has scored 13 non-penalty goals from an NPxG of just 9.79 shows his finishing technique has also come on leaps and bounds.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

In the electric first half of BPM (Beats Per Minute) the film charts the movement of a group of HIV / AIDS activists in France in the early 1990s, just as the virus became a household name and those ravaged by it had grown tired of the pervasive silence around the pandemic.

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

I saw a report by Docebo that said the Learning Management System market was expected to grow by 23.17 % till the year 2018 — clearly we are only a part of a much larger movement built around using eLearning for corporate training.

There are lots of examples of nature - based education around the world, operating under various titles, including a growing nature preschool movement in the US, nature barnehages in Norway, Skogsmulle in Sweden and bush kinders in Australia.

Alexandria, VA — It's National Charter Schools Week (May 5 - 11, 2013) and around the country thousands of stakeholders are recognizing this growing movement of innovative schools for the impact they are having on students and teachers nearly nationwide.

Founded by public school teachers, Educators for Excellence (E4E) is a growing movement of over 25,000 educators, united around a common set of principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession.

There's a back to the land movement of sorts around Las Vegas these days, driven by the desert city's growing realization that the only reason it can exist — the sapphire, but shrinking, expanse of Lake Mead 30 miles away — is not as durable as the Hoover Dam that created the reservoir 70 years ago.

Yesterday we looked at the big picture: how the grassroots environmental movements of the 60s were quickly co-opted by the New Left and the Democrat Party, while providing employment for the «environmental activism industry» that grew up around the environmentalists» efforts.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

At our best, we work like a tide that helps gather the climate movement around it, to enable it all to feel like one big wave rising, which is why in 2017 we continued to incubate numerous other efforts, create fellowships, grow a network of hundreds of affiliates, and build strategic capacity in key countries.

The OTIS project is a natural off - shoot of the growing «tiny homes» movement; in an era of urgent concerns around climate change, many people feel helpless to have an impact.

Although I'm highly suspicious of the political movement which has grown up around climate change, I'm not really a hardened sceptic as far as the science itself goes.

Take a look at the New York City Gardens study about how the guerilla gardening inspiration of one person has triggered a movement spreading around to world to take back city space for growing vegetables or «city lungs», spurring community solidarity, improving mental health and property values.

That process will inevitably mean we need to build movements, and grow existing ones, if we are going to get the kind of policy decisions that shape a sane and sustainable relationship with the world around us.

With daily content from community resilience leaders and thinkers around the world, Resilience.org has quickly become a daily «must read» for countless members of this quickly growing movement.

With its array of homemade goat cheese, pasta made with basil pesto grown onsite, chili with local venison and spicy collard greens, a local food potluck last night captures the difference a growing underground movement around local food is making in Cleveland.

But now there is a growing movement in the U.S. toward «attachment parenting», a theory of child - rearing centered around responsiveness to children's needs and close physical contact between baby and mother.

Underlying all of this global movement is the growing appetite for consumer goods around the world.