Sentences with phrase «of ecological movements»

The religious impulse of the ecological movement explains both its popularity — it satisfies a basic human need — and the uncertainty of its future.

The ethical issues that have become important as a result of the ecological movement have been germane to Whiteheadian thinking all along.

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To me, the core impulse behind this movement is the feeling among young people all over the world that the future doesn't compute, that their lives will be full of ecological, political and financial crises, and that they will never have a life like their parents did.

That Alberta has a government that is committed to Green principles which include, but are not limited to, the 6 principles of the world - wide Green Party movement — Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Participatory democracy, Non-violence, Sustainability and Respect for diversity.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

In the ecological movement, it is above all the dualism of the human and the natural that is opposed.

For Whiteheadians, more than for most others in the ecological movement, the fact that human subjective experience is fully natural, points to the pervasiveness of subjective experience in nature.

As the selection for this essay of Buddhism, feminism, and the ecological movement suggests, we have held conferences with selected representatives.

It involves a common movement into a technological culture but it also entails correcting the inhumanities like State totalitarianism, increasing impoverishment and marginalisation of the majority of the people, destruction of the ecological basis of life and above all the general mechanization of human life already brought about by the misdirected technological advance.

The ecological movement is nationwide, even worldwide, but California provided more than its share of leadership.

He then clarifies one of Whitehead's key concepts: «prehension», that is, the way in which one momentary experience incorporates or takes account of earlier such moments, and considers its implications for process theology and the ecological movement.

New ecological movements called for a redirecting of attitudes and the discovery of new values for the future, if there was to be a future (Birch 1976).

After religious pluralism and ecological issue have been recognized as realities of the present, the ecumenical movement has widened their internal and external dialogues to include adherents of both ideological and religious faiths who have provided their insights to the churches in clarifying their contribution to humanizing modernity.

The stubborn resistance of the poor tribal women in the now famous Chipko movement against the Government's decision to turn their habitat into a mining area, has brought to our consciousness the inseparable link between the struggle of the poor and ecological issues.

For more than twenty years, CFS has been at the forefront of organizing a powerful food movement that fights the industrial model while promoting organic, ecological, and sustainable alternatives.

The industries were attacked at the early stage of that decade by an ecological movement.

Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions.

Until the past century or so, the movement of wild animals was relatively unrestricted, and their travels contributed substantially to ecological processes.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing an accounting for human activity in even the most basic ecological models

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Investigative journalists played a significant role in spearheading the movement by reporting on the dangers of environmental toxins, deforestation, nuclear testing, and other ecological damage.

Robert Rauschenberg's Earth Day poster is a waypoint that announces the codification of this awareness, an artifact from the genesis of the modern day environmental movement and a recognition of the moment when these long - standing ecological concerns became a matter of mainstream consciousness.

Coinciding with the first ecological movements in the USA and Europe, Land Art was first created in the 1960s by artists working concurrently but sepa - rately from each other, as a critical reaction to the classical genre of sculpture and the commercial art market.

Motifs of the Suprematist movement appear as laid foundations to Montgomery's poetical cautions on political, social, and ecological concerns of 21st Century society.

Devised in six movements, this film is the second installment of a planned quartet that address the aesthetics and politics of our ecological crisis (following on from 2015's Vertigo Sea, first shown at that year's Venice Biennale and currently on show at Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery).

Often simply referred to as «The Harrisons», the husband and wife team are leading pioneers of the Ecological Art movement.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

Composed of field recordings collected throughout the city, the sound captures the dynamic energy of signals and particles — both technological and ecological — which surround us and encompass the movement of business transactions, air pollution, traffic, street sounds, and other palpable evidence of an industrialized port city.

On the other hand, it is troubling that, when some ecological movements defend the integrity of the environment, rightly demanding that certain limits be imposed on scientific research, they sometimes fail to apply those same principles to human life.

In case you've been wondering lately if this whole tree - hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact,

In this sense, Speth's arguments are not far from that of the socialist movement of the twenty - first century, which is aimed at the core values of social justice and ecological sustainability.

Ecological corridor - A thin strip of vegetation used by wildlife, potentially allowing movement of biotic factors between two areas.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

According to the leaked document, the pope will praise the global ecological movement, which has «already travelled a long, rich road and has given rise to numerous groups of ordinary people that have inspired reflection».

And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

Permaculture is another one of these concepts that, as Hopkins notes, is «notoriously difficult to explain in two minutes in the pub,» but it's most commonly described as an ecological design movement that sees nature in terms of interlocking systems.

We hope to offer programming that meets a new generation of green leaders where they are, to build an environmental movement full of creative and dynamic change agents who are tackling the most pressing contemporary ecological issues.

Her words echoed those written in Pope Francis's landmark Encyclical released on June 18, which condemned ecological destruction and the impact of global warming on the world's poorest people, adding that the Pontiff linked the issues of both economic and climate justice «in a way that this divestment movement does.»