Sentences with phrase «on ecological issues»

With a poetical tone, Lerner takes on the meaning of sustainability, his obsession with educating children on ecological issues, and what he calls «urban accupunture».

To the extent that the L / NP move to the Centre on ecological issues it can help the ALP marginalise the Far Left forces concentrated in the GREENs.

The DEMs & GREENs demographic significantly overlap, particularly on ecological issues.

Camila Marambio: Independent curator Camila Marambio is director of Ensayos, a nomadic research program that focuses on ecological issues in Tierra del Fuego through experimental interdisiciplinary practices.

Following an introduction to the topic and scientific practices, subsequent chapters discuss various ways predators hunt and prey survive, such as venom and camouflage, and touch on ecological issues.

Downers Grove Village Atty. Dan Blondin said that the village had initiated the required consultation with the state on ecological issues prior to approving the hospital's plans and «will fight the (Heritage Alliance) suit, absolutely.»

This cross-disciplinary course is an opportunity for UH Hilo computer science, marine science and art majors to collaborate on a digital project meant to educate the public on ecological issues.

One of the finest collection of essays on ecological issues by a diverse group of authors, including representatives of process thought and creation centered spirituality, is the previously mentioned Joranson, Philip N., and Butigan, Ken, eds., Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Company, 1984).

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

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Our hope is that we are developing the technology to manage ecological issues more effectively, at lower cost and with smaller impact on commercial and political systems.»

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

His merit is to avoid narrow concepts and to refrain from making the antagonisms under which he himself had to suffer by the center of his theology.22 Looking at his dealing with ecological issues it becomes clear that Boff is not fixed on his context but willing to take up issues from outside and translate them into his context.

a time which is no longer characterized by military Governments, but more by economic globalization and its — for many — disastrous economic and ecological consequences.18 In connection with the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency of ecological issues.

The issue is, instead, whether drawing the conclusions I have suggested from ecological egalitarianism depends on a misunderstanding of the doctrine or might instead be its most consistent implication.

Still others have noted the impact of globalization on the environment and have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

This speaks to the growing national awareness of the ecological value of the Gulf of Mexico and to all the issues going on down there.»

Jayne Belnap of the U.S. Geological Survey is the world's foremost expert on biological crusts and has issued a clarion call that we should stop treating this ecological treasure like dirt.

Meanwhile, in Australia, as summer temperatures hovered near 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) and murderous flames converted forests into carbon dioxide, a new book entitled Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population issued an unusual ecological battle cry: ignore all admonitions to conserve the country's increasingly scarce water supplies until the government eliminates «baby bonuses» in the tax code and clamps down on immigration.

The Blue Mountains case study is part of an open access special issue on «Social - ecological systems in mountain landscapes» published online in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.ecological systems in mountain landscapes» published online in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.issue-S1).

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

RUSSIA Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

Opinion articles provide a platform for more subjective essays on ecological and evolutionary topics (including historical or neglected issues as well as more contemporary material).

Unfortunately, this dietary pattern also ignores the numerous health risks associated with eating meat, the ethical issues associated with an increased demand for food animals, and the looming environmental crisis that makes eating lower on the food chain an ecological imperative.

We feature compelling stories on our food system, local businesses, Indigenous food practices and food sovereignty, green architecture, and global ecological issues from a local perspective.

We feature compelling stories on our food system, local businesses, Indigenous food practices and food sovereignty, green architecture, and global ecological issues from a local perspective.

We feature compelling stories on our food system, local businesses, Indigenous food practices and food sovereignty, green architecture, and global ecological issues from a local perspective.

The exhibition Open Source looks at a selection of artists, most of them working since 1990, who have utilized new technologies, embraced a reimagined future, confronted ecological issues, sifted through cyborgs and post humanism, commented on the economy, and mined the overall psychological impact and flux of our cultural moment.

looks at a selection of artists, most of them working since 1990, who have utilized new technologies, embraced a re-imagined future, confronted ecological issues, sifted through cyborgs and post humanism, commented on the economy, and mined the overall psychological impact and flux of our cultural moment.

Novitskova's work focuses on issues of technology, evolutionary processes and ecological realities.

The program involves field trips to ecological sites on Ohio State's campus and throughout Ohio, comprehensive online coursework, and personal visits from artists working with ecological issues.

Her work focuses on political oppression and gender, and sociopolitical and ecological issues in Latin America and internationally.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

The first gallery survey of five decades of pioneering work produced by this husband - and - wife artist partnership known as «The Harrisons», this exhibition focuses on works that address ecological issues within the artists» home state of California.

He is also known for founding artist collective AIDS - 3D with Nik Kosmas, creating work that merges artistic practise, technology and social activism to comment on contemporary culture and ecological issues.

Addressing contemporary social issues in light of political, economic and ecological changes, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho embark on a quest towards an unknown future that is at once an end and an origin.

But much of my work indeed addresses ecological issues and the future of humanity, dependent on overlooked details such as the plight of bees.

He sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of «ecological citizenship» as a precursor to progress on planet - scale environmental issues:

«Our participation in the EcoChallenge is important because it helps us all to take personal action, be mindful of our ecological footprint, and conversationally engage our peers, colleagues and community on sustainability issues,» said Paul Shrivastava, Penn State's chief sustainability officer and director of the Sustainability Institute.

In a bid to use contemporary art to move more people to action on environmental issues, and to reach a wider audience with the message that we need to clean up our act and live more sustainably, a nonprofit art organization has launched the second part of its online interactive exhibit, Footing the Bill: Art and Our Ecological Footprint.

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

Based on that up - to - date scientific understanding of the permanent harm that would result from the destruction and burial of six miles of vital headwater streams, the downstream contamination and resulting ecological damage, and the leveling of 2,000 acres of natural mountaintop, EPA issued a final veto determination in January 2011.

Solar and wind energy require essentially no water at a time when stress on water resources is becoming an ever larger economic and ecological issue.

Every week approximately 250 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

In his address to the United Nations, Pope Francis focused on a variety of issues, but paid special attention to the ecological crisis.

The GREENS have gone missing on this crucial issue, which upsets the ecological balance if nothing else.

Augment the Renewable Energy Guidelines by, for instance, requiring wind energy developers to comply with more rigorous criteria including scientific research on setback allowances, noise, wind velocity, human health issues, property values, agricultural animal productivity and welfare, air traffic flight paths (commercial passenger and cargo plus light aircraft including air ambulance), environmental and ecological impact, health and safety issues for domestic animals, longterm adverse effect of cement pedestals on ground water, depletion of finite local aggregate supply and induced seismic activity on faults.