Sentences with phrase «on organic principles»

Many opportunities exist to improve and scale up better practices based on organic principles.

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«As the market for natural and organic foods and nutritional supplements continues to grow, having a story based on a set of founding principles that have guided us throughout our 60 year history... helps when talking to investors,» Kemper Isley, co-president of the company, and son of the founders Margaret and Philip Isley, said in an email.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.

Whether something of the sort may be supposed to occur in the organic realm does not solely depend on whether in the organic (sub-human) sphere, substantial formal principles essentially higher than the principles constitutive of inorganic reality can strictly be postulated by natural philosophy, in the way claimed by Vitalism rightly understood, as entelechies of sorts, though of course in themselves these could not be the objects of perception, because a posteriori and experimentally it is only complete beings which are met with, never principles of being as such.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

Rodale Institute offers an educational and hands - on opportunity for interns to learn and practice the fundamental principles of organic plant cultivation and garden maintenance.

[26] Several groups have called for organic standards to prohibit nanotechnology on the basis of the precautionary principle [27] in light of unknown risks of nanotechnology.

The organic market in the People's Republic of China is enjoying continued growth, as more and more consumers are turning to products developed on environmental principles: with turnover of more than 5.8 billion USD in 2015, China is now the world's fourth - largest organic consumer market.

Seed and Bean is a company founded on ethical principles and all of its products are not only Fairtrade and organic, but taste good too.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

Markus Arbenz, Director of IFOAM — Organics International: «The unified position of the organic sector, based on science and on the Principles of the Organic Agriculture (Care, Ecology, Health and Fairness), is clear: new genetic engineering techniques are GMOs and must therefore not be used in organic production.

The contribution of organic agriculture to poverty reduction is acknowledged by FAO (Diouf, 2009 °), documented by numerous case studies on development projects where the principles and practices of organic agriculture have been successfully implemented.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

Although little research has been carried out comparing agro-ecosystem diversity in different farming regimes, many of the principles of organic agriculture are likely to have a positive impact on ecosystem diversity66.

We fight for the adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems based on the principles of organic agriculture — health, ecology, fairness and care.

The 2002 IFOAM Basic Standards for Organic Agriculture Production and Processing67 include principles and recommendations on «organic ecosystems» where provisions are made to «maintain a significant portion of farms to facilitate biodiversity and nature conservation», including (among others) wildlife refuge habitats and wildlife corridors that provide linkages and connectivity to native habitat.

The accumulated experience and systematization of organic agriculture initiatives in developing countries is shedding light on principles and processes necessary to achieve food security and combat poverty while regenerating / conserving the resource base.

Holle has been making organic infant formulas for more than 80 years and was founded on anthroposophical dietary principles, which is a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner more than a century ago.

The EU rules for «organic» are complex, but the principle is that «organic» is a way or producing food, not a test done on food after it has been produced.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Using first - principles methods, we show that molecular water and a wide - variety of organics found in the solar nebula could have been directly incorporated on to planetary grains, implying a possible endogenous source of life on Earth.

Joy and Karma, or JK, a brand that is often called just JK, focuses on the production of several natural and organic skin care products based on the cosmic principle that the more good things we do for our skin, the more rewards we can reap.

Originating in the fluid forms of Rodin, the organic curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau and Jugenstil, and the ovoid forms of Constantin Brancusi, it attracted even Constructivists like Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953), who based his Letatlin flying contraption on an organically biodynamic principle (the flight of birds) rather than a mechanical one.

Put your green drinking principles into action with this guide on how to throw an organic beer tasting party.

Based on observations and fundamental chemical kinetic principles, attempts have been made to formulate organic carbon composition by functional group analysis in some main classes of organic chemical species (e.g., Decesari et al., 2000, 2001; Maria et al., 2002; Ming and Russell, 2002), capturing some general characteristics in terms of refractive indices, hygroscopicity and cloud activation properties.

Earlier this year, in Hinton Organics, Lord Justice Carnwath noted obiter that «certain aspects of [the Corner House] principles have proved controversial, particularly the requirement that the claimant should have no private interest in the outcome of the case», as well as suggesting that, although on a strict view Goodson remains binding authority, it is impossible to ignore the criticisms in subsequent cases of its narrow approach.