Sentences with phrase «patterns of economic progress»

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.

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A former president and CEO of Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress and the Orange County Partnership, respectively, DiTullo has a substantial background in economic development including his most recent position, managing director of the Orange County Business Accelerator where he established a high - tech incubator and attracted more than 22 early stage innovators focused in such industries as the life sciences, bio-medical and web - based software development, to name a few.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.