Sentences with phrase «public focus on sustainability»

In the view of Dr. Johann Overath there are currently two main trends in glass packaging: «On the one hand there is increasing public focus on sustainability.

Not exact matches

The week - long startup competition focused on four areas of public innovation: education, energy & sustainability, health, and transportation.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

... Mr Bloomberg told the Financial Times his event would be more focused on getting private and public sector leaders from developed and emerging economies to work together on finding «actionable solutions» to challenges from economic inclusion to environmental sustainability.»

Since then, Global Gap Year has evolved somewhat (it's now six countries in 28 weeks), and TBB has launched semester - long programs as well, one focused on food security and public health in Asia and another focused on empowerment and sustainability in South America.

TGS is a charter public school in Rhode Island with a focus on expeditionary learning through the themes of sustainability and environmental stewardship.

To that end, we hope that Dr. Johnson - Trammell will be the leader who brings our community together with a renewed focus on improving quality, equity, and sustainability within and across all public schools in service of all students.

Help Steve raise money to support students from MetWest, a small public high school in East Oakland (where Steve is tutoring math) attend the Woolman Semester School, a Quaker school focused on peace, justice and environmental sustainability.

Many of our conversations will focus on topics such as climate, the environment, sustainability, and public space.»

«A group of financial experts has set out its vision for hardwiring sustainability goals into the European Union's financial system, calling on the 28 - country bloc to stop pouring public money into polluting fossil fuels and focus spending on clean energies instead.

Long - term sustainability for the maximization of human survival has been eclipsed by global business for the expediency of large gains in short - term periods, where mostly tactical activities predominate in both emerging and developed markets, instead of focusing on strategic alternatives and activities that would sustain life on earth in a symbiotic, negentropic relationship between global business, Nature as Earth, government, and consumers or the general public.

Farther south, New York City has taken numerous steps to implement PlaNYC, a far - reaching sustainability plan for the city, including amending the construction code and the zoning laws and the implementation of measures focused on developing adaptation strategies to protect the City's public and private infrastructure from the effects of climate change; 26 some major investments in protection have even been conceptualized.

Drawing on its green building expertise that spans more than two decades, Global Green USA provided Boston Latin School with a $ 75,000 grant to realize its student - created proposal of giving America's first and oldest public school a sustainability - focused makeover.