Sentences with phrase «on environmental history»

Daniel B. Botkin, an ecologist and author of many books on environmental history, told me to look at the opening chapter of «No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature,» for his critique of Naess.

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One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.
The history of climate change denialism since the 1980s has really been the culmination of the attack on environmental science.
In the last year, Trump rolled back regulations on environmental protections, financial services, and health care, calling it the «most far - reaching regulatory reform» in U.S. history.
«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.
«We're always going to be looking at social justice, we're always going to be looking at environmental justice, we're always going to be looking at being on the right side of history, especially with millennials and our audience,» Smith said.
Her chapter on the early history of South Korea's nuclear energy industry has been also published in an edited volume, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and history of South Korea's nuclear energy industry has been also published in an edited volume, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and History in the Anthropocene: Perspective on Asia and Africa.
• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»
By laying emphasis on environmental study at both levels we can cross the bridge between history and theology, provided that we are willing to recognize a considerable measure of continuity between the early Church and the Church today.
A summary of Commonwealth environmental water use in the Lachlan is available on the History tab.
To achieve this, our food microbiology experts began by collating significant quantities of the company's internal data on formulation history, processes, raw materials, microbial quality tests and environmental monitoring.
The company has a proud history of focusing on safety, product safety and environmental performance.
The school's Architecture & Environmental Design major involves interesting courses, but there isn't a ton on policy, planning, urban history, etc..
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The club, situated on the shore of Lake Michigan, has a long history of environmental violations: the worst is direct discharge of more than 400 tons of lead into the lake throughout its 70 - plus - year history.
First published in 2013, A Healing Landscape: Environmental and Social History of the Site of Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center by Scholar - in - Residence Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, tells the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the land over the past two centuries — including early farming families, a Revolutionary war soldier, pioneering birdwatchers, the residents and staff of the Boston State Hospital, and, of course, the Clark Cooper Community Gardens and Mass Audubon.
More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.
«The fact that here on Long Island, we have such a rich environmental activism history, you know, we should really be concerned with using chemicals once again to control these mosquitoes.»
She went on to talk about his deep love of reading and knowledge of history and his strong belief in environmental protection, as well as being the kind of leader that New Paltz and the country deserves and needs.
Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.
«This shows a diverse variety of life existed in fresh water, on land, very early in Earth's history,» says Professor Van Kranendonk, Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and head of the UNSW school of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
«Further genetic research on these rare and elusive animals may help illuminate the environmental history of the region, as well as bear evolutionary history worldwide — and additional «Yeti» samples could contribute to this work,» Lindqvist says.
History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.
«It is very rare in science and history to have such strong and detailed evidence documenting how societies responded to climatic shocks in the past,» says Jennifer Marlon, research scientist in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and a co-author on the study.
An Iowa corn field today, whatever critics say of its environmental impacts, is an extraordinary technological achievement and produces more food on an acre than almost any acre known in history — certainly any nonirrigated acre.
«These findings build on a long history of work in our laboratory investigating mechanisms by which cancer cells respond to environmental stresses,» says Grant.
«We suspect bacteria quickly colonize the waterborne debris, and mosquito larvae feed on the bacteria,» said Illinois entomology professor Brian Allan, a co-author on the study with Mackay, Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Ephantus Muturi and U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences professor Michael Ward.
According to Beard, their paper in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds light on a poorly documented interval of our own evolutionary history, and shows climate and environmental change can utterly alter a local ecosystem — from a wet, subtropical forest in the Eocene to a dry desert today.
Often, environmental changes have predictable effects on life histories.
The results of Schaller, Fung and his team will prompt further investigations into the possible influence of an impact event on the global environmental change that characterized this notable warming period in Earth's ancient history.
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If ineffectual practices can be avoided, environmental leaders will undoubtedly look back on this marine - mega-park era as one of the most important periods in the history of ocean conservation.
Professor Graham Shields - Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences), one of the co-authors and Dr Tostevin's PhD supervisor, said: «We honed in on the last 10 million years of the Proterozoic Eon as the interval of Earth's history when today's major animal groups first grew shells and churned up the sediment, and found that oxygen levels were important to the relationship between environmental conditions and the early development of animals.»
This frontier research needs to be furthered by conducting surveys and excavations in various environmental zones of Arabia in order to recover ecological data and information on hominin population history and changing adaptive behaviours.
Potential guides to the development of carbon - based life on other planets in the Solar System or around other stars include the past history and continuously changing nature and types of life and environmental conditions on Earth that reflect life's presence.
Now, for the first time in history, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, were able to recreate some of the key environmental conditions of these gaseous giants here on Earth.
Interdisciplinary seminar with focus on ecology and environmental history.
The various rover and lander missions on Mars have provided unprecedented glimpses into the planet's past, including geological history and environmental conditions.
We can use galactic environmental conditions and the star formation history to trace what happened very early on in that galaxy that provided the various elements we see today.
In addition to core courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies, we offer electives such as art, environmental stewardship, forensics, Japanese, and science olympiad, plus a series of seminars focused on aviation and aerospace, including Aviation and the American Character, History of Aircraft Design, and Robotics.
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Back at Sturgis — where 12 percent of students are from disadvantaged backgrounds and 11 percent have learning disabilities — students are considering the creation of the national bank from different perspectives in history class, analyzing E. B. White's essays in English class, developing environmental impact assessments in science class, and reflecting on how they know what they know in theory of knowledge class.
He has studied human - caused damage in a riparian zone in Colorado, written a book on the climbing history of a section of the Alaska Range, and mentored students in a variety of Alaska's environmental issues.
3.5 hour whale watching cruise off Point Loma (you will go out to sea) Opportunity to spot whales, dolphins, sea lions and other marine wildlife and featuring GRAY WHALES An exclusive look at local environmental efforts Professional live narration by our expert captains and Whalers from San Diego Natural History Museum Snack bars featuring hot food and snacks, full bar and souvenirs Climate - controlled indoor or outdooor seating up on the sun deck 30 feet off the water for great views Views of famous San Diego landmarks
Her paintings draw on personal history, art history and environmental history, and investigate aspects of contemporary American landscape and their relationship to the languages of visual art.
In addition to providing a comprehensive account of Bradford's career to date, with an emphasis on his work as a painter, this exhibition will foreground new works, including an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is on Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present.
Wilson echoes a common theme in politics and photography, much as when Misrach encountered lunch tables on salt flats: disturbance of the land colors American, environmental, or human history — and a contested history at that.
Artists like Hicks and Stuart, the latter an American artist who began creating environmental earth - based and minimalist works in the 1970s — and a recent addition to Jacques's roster — are «getting up there in age, leaving less time to talk to them first hand about the scope of their practices,» Jacques said, which is key to putting them on par on the marketplace and in history with their male peers.
The work, which first premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale and will have its first New York presentation at the New Museum, focuses on the ocean as an environmental, cultural, and historical force, connecting literature and poetry, the history of slavery, and contemporary issues of migration and climate change.
Art presented at OS Gowanus must have a focus on social, political or environmental issues that engage with the history, communities or culture in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
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