Sentences with phrase «on environmental progress»

China followed a few months later with a Five Year Plan that majored on environmental progress and further fuelled speculation the superpower's coal use already has peaked.

President Trump's continues his attack on environmental progress by reversing the Obama administration's ban on sale of disposable plastic water bottles at National Parks.

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[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

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When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

The Accountability Framework, an initiative being developed by a coalition of leading environmental and social organisations (including the Rainforest Alliance), will provide a clear pathway for companies on the sustainability journey — including key milestones and benchmarks to evaluate their progress.

In a statement, Ms Spelman said: «We hope that the Liberal Democrats under Mr Clegg will join us in putting pressure on the government to devolve power to local authorities, communities and individuals, in our opposition to ID cards and in our commitment to social justice and environmental progress.»

The NYLCV gave the Legislature a «B» for its progress on environmental and energy issues in the 2012 legislative session that ended last month.

Your passion on issues such as environmental protection built a legacy... We pledge to continue the progress you made in these critically important areas.»

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The New York League of Conservation Voters has issued its «Environmental Progress Report» grading the legislature on its priority issues for the recently adjourned legislative session.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

The event included provocations from Stephanie Draper, a Director at Forum for the Future who shared progress to date, giving examples of organisations who are achieving absolute reductions in their environmental impact and from Professor Tim Jackson of the Sustainable Development Commission on the limitations of decoupling and the need for a new model of ecological enterprise.

These include circulars on Environmental Justice and Title VI, as well as an apportionments notice with guidance regarding the implementation of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21).

These actions build upon requirements of earlier transportation authorizations, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA - LU), as well as administrative approaches through Executive Order (EO) 13604, Presidential Memoranda and the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) modernization efforts, and DOT initiatives (e.g. Every Day Counts, eNEPA, etc.).

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA), hereafter referred to as the «Agencies,» are engaging interested parties in a discussion on the use of programmatic approaches to conduct environmental reviews, as required by Section 1305 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21; 23 U.S.C. 139 (b)(3)-RRB-.

Putting an Ecologic label on each Chevrolet is just one more way for us to share our environmental progress.»

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed a toxic waste site flooded by Hurricane Harvey from a special list of contaminated sites that require the personal attention of the agency's leader, because it says there's been significant progress on a cleanup plan.

Even though considerable progress has been made in addressing the environmental impact of tourism in our destination, we can not rest on our laurels.

We believe that making progress on environmental issues comes, in part, from developing working models that provide examples to follow.

As you progress through a crumbling stone building, you learn the basics of attacking, dodging, talking with other characters, solving environmental puzzles and taking on the game's massive bosses.

As players progress, they'll run into items including explosive barrels and crates, which can be used for environmental attacks on surrounding enemies.

You'll select your destination from the overworld map, and when you enter you'll find an area comprised of several scrolling screens (and a map on the bottom screen to show how they all connect) full of environmental puzzles to solve, which all present clever ways to use the growing repertoire of skills the squad possess as they progress.

Events designed to connect the local and regional community with the artists in residence may include an open studio of works in progress, outreaches by residents, and on - site activities / tours held in partnership with schools and arts and environmental organizations.

The film's sprawling title — «How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change» — reflects the sweep of the documentary itself, which takes viewers on Fox's world - spanning learning journey examining how local campaigns and individual innovators can tweak troubling environmental trajectories toward progress.

My purpose has long been to help people make sense of the momentous environmental and social changes under way on this «pale blue dot» called Earth, the forces behind those changes, and what policies and practices can foster human progress while limiting regrets.

Built on consumerism and the rapid augmentation of profits, progress in our post-industrial age has led to serious environmental imbalances in the most comprehensive sense of the term: an over-consumption of non-renewable raw materials, noise, visual and air pollution, and the extinction of animal and vegetable species.

The optimism is based on the often forgotten environmental progress and victories that have been achieved over the past decades, including fixing the ozone hole, remediation of our rivers and lakes, great improvements in air quality and the rescue of many endangered species.

The commentators on NewsHour were Glenn Hurowitz, who works on environmental issues at the Center for International Policy, Daniel Weiss, the director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, and Ken Green, who analyzes environmental policy for the American Enterprise Institute.

It would lock in the problem we have of environmental progress being dependent on which party is in power.

The following excerpts from an article I wrote for Outside Magazine (and a related Dot Earth post) on President Obama's second - term opportunities for environmental progress are worth reposting:

None of these moves should be taken as a signal that vigilance over corporate environmental abuses is no longer relevant, nor that corporate power can inevitably prevent backsliding on climate progress, but they are one more sign among many that the ultimate momentum is on the side of continued, prolonged and far - reaching action to cut emissions.

My takeaway from Cuomo's decision and my chat with Ruffalo is that progress on environmental and energy policy in the United States emerges from a never - ending, and normal, tussle involving a mix of activism, law, economic realities, scientific and technological advances (both in developing energy sources cleanly and tracking problems), improving transparency (which is far greater now, even in places like Wyoming, than a few years ago), politics and lots of communication.

But we're in total sync on most points, particularly in the value of focusing less on the «woe is me, shame on you» approach to pursuing environmental progress and more on building environmental understanding, engagement and the capacity to make a difference.

Our story on the punishment of a woman in Sudan who dared wear pants brings to mind a theme that has percolated on Dot Earth for a while: the relationship among the conditions facing women (and girls) in developing countries, progress toward prospering, stable populations and, in the end, societal and environmental stability.

It is about the art and craft of consciously, consistently balancing economic, social and environmental concerns in such a way as to stimulate progress on all three.

Since 2002, Shellenberger has been president of The Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit research group focused on propelling environmental and social progress.

For more on the potential to use new approaches to communication to make progress on climate and energy, explore the Twitter feed below — generated during a mini-course on climate, the Web and communication that I'm teaching this week at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara:

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:

And while progress is clearly being made on identifying the cause, or most likely causes, of the problem — we'd do well to keep supporting pollinators, pollinator research, conservation and environmental regeneration any way we can.

Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at American University focused in part on environmental journalism, sent this note in reaction to recent Climate Progress posts on climate and the media:

To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.

For more on the potential to use new approaches to communication to make progress on climate and energy, explore the Twitter feed below — generated during a mini-course on climate, the Web and communication that I'm teaching this week at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara: Read more...

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

Ridley's book provides a parallel, but utterly divergent, reading of the human journey on the planet, noting how commerce and innovation have led, with bumps and lumps, to both human progress and solutions to environmental problems.

In a wise Op - Ed article on Sunday, Margo Oge, a former senior Environmental Protection Agency official and the author of «Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change With Cleaner, Smarter Cars,» laid out an approach to fostering progress toward developing truly renewable biologically - based energy sources.

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

Twice before on Dot Earth, I've offered and solicited ways in which President Obama could foster environmental progress on a budget: