Sentences with phrase «potential tool for change»

Until we are willing to talk to utilities companies and pay a little more for clean electricity, I think that these internet sites will just remain useful knowledge, not a potential tool for change.

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Given its potential for reducing carbon emissions, enhancing soil fertility and improving climate resilience, Organic Agriculture should form the basis of comprehensive policy tools for addressing the future of global nutrition and addressing climate change.

Note that I'm not talking about the Gladwellian «soft ties» argument about the potential of social media to change the world — to me, Egypt and Tunisia are proof enough of social media's ability to provide people the tools to self - organize for political change.

Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.

The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

«Our results provide a detailed understanding of the bacterial changes that occur as mouse corpses decompose, and we believe this method has the potential to be a complementary forensic tool for estimating time of death.»

RNA editing, which can alter gene products without making changes to the genome, has profound potential as a tool for both research and disease treatment.

In situ mesocosm experiments on the effect of ocean acidification (OA) are an important tool for investigating potential OA - induced changes in natural plankton communities.

International TEDx & keynote human performance and leadership speaker and coach, Jeanette Bronée, is changing the way we work by focusing on how we make health and wellness the foundation for creating sustainable success and why leadership self - care is the essential tool for achieving optimal performance and reach our human potential.

These two problems will likely limit the potential of Graph Search as a dating tool for now, but Fishman suggests this could change in the future if Facebook adds additional relationship status options like «Looking for a date,» and if the social network can accrue enough real - time interest data for users from its partnerships with other websites.

The bad news is... Well, there is that choice again, albeit a much easier one, since the tools for a potential change of concept will be already there.

«When jobs are changing rapidly, accumulating knowledge matters less, and success becomes increasingly about ways of thinking - creativity, critical thinking, problem - solving and judgment; about ways of working - collaboration and teamwork; about tools for working, including the capacity to recognize and exploit the potential of new technologies; and about the social and emotional skills that help us live and work together.»

While the world of online education is exciting for its potential to reach students individually, the tools available for teachers to use are rapidly changing.

But they all show the potential for positive and lasting change, and with greater sharing and exchange, could become powerful tools in the hands of indigenous peoples, local communities, other civil society organizations, and governments that are struggling to achieve a sustainable, equitable and just world.

It includes information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, analytic methods and tools, GHG reduction strategies, potential impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure, and approaches for integrating climate change considerations into transportation decision making.

Select works, if you change your expectation of what it can do for you, and use it as a tool to find new readers... perhaps only a few hundred at a time, but each time you use the free promo tool, you're picking up potential True Fans.

It strikes me that all these insights are potential tools for thinking about how to reach the public with the information necessary to motivate the behavioral and political changes we need to get our arms around this threat.

Getting more solar ovens into more kitchens is an admirable goal, but the element of Solavore's mission that has perhaps the most potential for change is its positioning of the solar oven as a useful tool for change not only in individual homes, but also as an economic tool for change in communities.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

Results do not address all sources of uncertainty, but their scale and scope highlight one component of the potential health risks of unmitigated climate change impacts on extreme temperatures and draw attention to the need to continue to refine analytical tools and methods for this type of analysis

In a second analysis, I find that policy interventions can not achieve long - run reductions in energy use without increasing prices, implying that energy efficiency mandates and R&D subsidies have limited potential as tools for climate change mitigation.

If the report argues for the acquisition of capabilities, tools, systems, and institutions that could help meet the potential for problems brought on by climate change, it is not necessarily arguing for the adoption of specific adaptations or mitigation strategies.

The UNFCCC Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change is designed to assist Parties and other potential users in selecting the most appropriate methodology for assessments of impacts and vulnerability, and preparing for adaptation to climate change.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

Using a variety of tools and resources, we cultivate potential and develop it into tangible outcomes whether the goal is managing one's career or making a change, becoming a more effective leader or increasing team collaboration and communication for top performance.

The doctoral research of the author, which evaluated a Strengths Approach2 as a cross-sector tool for implementing change in early - childhood education and in doing so researched a potential investment in improving preservice preparation, is described and discussed.

IoT tools — at a rudimentary stage today — have yet to gain a significant foothold in real estate, but the potential for game - changing progress, along with disruption, is huge.