Sentences with phrase «public about the environment»

The organization promotes self - sustaining agriculture and works to educate the public about the environment and global warming.

Not exact matches

Ask people honest questions in public, about their workloads, responsibilities, and the office environment in general.

Tom Mulcair's recent article for the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) raises perhaps more questions than it answers about the NDP's positions on the economics of energy and the environment.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

It's about how friendly is the environment in terms of how coherent are the developer groups, the public sector and the universities, and how comfortable it is in terms of the political climate.»

In this environment, policymakers would do well to not only be cautious and forward - looking in managing the level and structure of public borrowing, but vigilant about detecting and defusing potential build - ups of vulnerabilities in the private sector as well (and, as our unfortunate experience shows, off - balance sheets as well as on).

«Until we get better information into the public discourse about how these platforms are shaping the information environments that they control, we are sort of talking about policy options in the dark.»

Public opinion polling has shown that the electorate's concerns about the environment have increased significantly since the 2006 election.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can...

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.

As a result of this, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) was tasked with educating the public about the health effects associated with retail marijuanPublic Health and Environment (CDPHE) was tasked with educating the public about the health effects associated with retail marijuanpublic about the health effects associated with retail marijuana use.

Public action can take on many forms, including boycotting Nestlé brands, helping to spread the word about Nestlé's unethical business practices, and putting pressure on the government to pass legislation that would prevent Nestlé from doing things that put people, animals and the environment at risk.

Fathers who have been involved in public service programmes talk about their learning as parents and how they have transferred this learning from the programme to the home environment.

Adaptive Play offers a supportive learning environment where children can play with their families and other children without worrying about judgment from the public.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

Working in government is supposed to be about public service and yet it has become an environment ruled by greed and money and it frightens me that my children's lives are now at stake.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

They too cite concern about public school environments, family ties and academic standards as reasons to home school, research shows.

This includes educating the public about the countryside, promoting agriculture and helping to protect the natural environment.

In the absence of any public consultation on such a sweeping package of measures as TTIP represents, anyone concerned about the environment, the NHS, education, civil liberties, public safety or even just democracy in its widest sense, needs to make their voice heard.

The commissioner used the opportunity of his visit to solicit for media support in sensitizing the public about the need to keep their environment clean at all times and refrain from indiscriminate refuse dumping.

The Erie County Department of Health's («ECDOH») Division of Environmental Health works every day to protect the environment and educate the public about threats to our environment, both big and small.

«We regret the railroad's decision to place some of our rail cars in the Adirondack Park, which raised public concern about their effect on the park's beauty and environment,» said Constantino in a statement.

Consequently, people from the district will be making their concerns about ACA, Planned Parenthood, the environment, immigration and jobs public in front of Faso's hometown office.

«We are seriously concerned about potential environmental impacts and are evaluating all legal and regulatory options at our disposal to ensure the environment and the public are protected.»

Last week, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency had expressed concerns about the environmental impact of the tanker cars and pledged to look into «all legal and regulatory options to ensure the environment and the public are protected.»

The three candidates running in New York's 21st Congressional District argued about the environment and climate change in a debate on Mountain Lake Public Television Monday night.

The campaign aims to engage the public with the built environment and get people thinking about buildings and their role in popular culture.

The post-referendum environment offers the chance to re-engage with a public which is better educated about and enthused by constitutional politics than ever before.

He also spoke about the public education system, saying young people are graduating from high school without having the reading, writing or math skills needed to excel in a college environment.

Still, he said there are enough uncertainties about the potential risks to public health and the environment to warrant not moving ahead.

We have people lined up, ready to go and we're going to use it as an opportunity to talk both about the democratic process and the real issues in this state: public funding of elections, funding for public schools, fracking, our tax code and the environment.»

Ms. Anker added that she voted in support of a companion bill that aims to educate the public during the year before the new law would take effect about how plastic bags have negatively affected the environment and encourage shoppers to use reusable bags.

It's about time Republicans reached across the aisle... women's choice, equal pay, education, public transportation, minimum wage, the environment, science... there's not a thing the Republicans have that this country needs.

He has written to the secretary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, requesting a comment period extension for the proposed Algonquin Incremental Market Project and expressing his concerns about how the project will impact public safety and the environment.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

Our vision is to see more scientists engage, and engage effectively, in the public discourse about the environment.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

«Our findings provide evidence for policy makers and public health professionals about the need for smoke - free environments in places frequented by teens worldwide.»

Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today about the impacts of climate change on health.

David Konisky of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted overPublic and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted overpublic opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over time.

The environment has emerged as one of Beijing's key priorities amid growing public disquiet about urban smog, dwindling and polluted water supplies and the widespread industrial contamination of farmland.

A report by the union in 2013 found that 86 % of federal scientists felt that they could not publicly share concerns about government policies that could harm public health, safety, or the environment without facing retaliation from their department leaders.

«Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease,» says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, «and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment.

Three university professors have written a book called Seven Popular Myths about Livestock Grazing on Public Lands, which debunks all claims that cattle harm the environment.

And he has done so at the particular intersection of science with public policy environment and the human condition where public and policy - maker confusion about the realities is more dangerous for the future of society than on any other science - and - policy question excepting, possibly, the dangers from weapons of mass destruction.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Based on the environment and public health situation in Cebu City at the time, these cases of diarrhea were most likely brought about by infection, Eisenberg said.

The outcomes of public engagement may be as crucial as scientific outcomes in making decisions about whether or not to release a gene - drive modified organism into the environment.