Sentences with phrase «shared environmental goals»

As the participants began talking about how they thought about and related to the natural world, barriers lowered and shared environmental goals were identified.

Not exact matches

I don't know all his environmental positions, but I bet we share similar goals of clean air, land, and water.

«Environmental science actually shares a common goal with drug makers: to improve the prediction of chemical toxicity,» says Dr. Allan Peter Davis, lead author of a paper on the work and the biocuration project manager of the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) in NC State's Department of Biological Sciences.

I would say putting people first, improving wellbeing by including all and eradicating poverty via holistic and sustainable approaches are focal points which in many ways are not separated from my strong commitment to vulgarizing education, sharing and learning, communication, cultural exploration and inter-cultural dialogue, art, environmental protection and broadening the use of transformational technologies as a way of combating poverty, achieving millennium development goals and reducing suspicion and development lapses in Africa and the world.

Goal To teach observation, investigation, and presentation skills using integrated curricula to become more aware of natural phenomena in neighborhood and school environments and how to use science, math, geography, and oral / written descriptive language to study, record, and share environmental information and understanding.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

I hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and animal - welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.

The Belkheirs have partnered with local providers and manufacturers in order to minimize the amount of packaging needed for transportation, and many of those suppliers share their goal of environmental consciousness.

Help Build carbon offsets are helping Esurance to meet their environmental and social impact goals and create shared value for consumers and the company.

Our shared goal is to advance our understanding of sustainability and expand the environmental movement by celebrating voices and stories that are often unheard or unacknowledged.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

And where talk of population control is rarely popular (for good reason), female empowerment and greater equality are a) goals shared by powerful preexisting coalitions, b) replete with ancillary benefits beyond the environmental, and c) unquestionably righteous.

«The Environmental Partnership will help America's natural gas and oil industry share goals, technologies and best practices that will make our environmental stewardship even strEnvironmental Partnership will help America's natural gas and oil industry share goals, technologies and best practices that will make our environmental stewardship even strenvironmental stewardship even stronger.»

SYCEO's Environmental Director, Josh Simmons, noted that the tribe, casino, and SYCEO share the goals of «sustainability, environmental stewardship, and energy saEnvironmental Director, Josh Simmons, noted that the tribe, casino, and SYCEO share the goals of «sustainability, environmental stewardship, and energy saenvironmental stewardship, and energy savings.»

«I have been impressed by the way Ford embraced the mobility options, the environmental goals and the equity concerns that MTC and Motivate put front and center when we authorized the Bike Share program expansion last spring,» said MTC Chair and Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese.

As Administrator, Mr. Pruitt's overarching goal is to lead EPA in a way that our future generations inherit a better and healthier environment as he works with the thousands of dedicated public servants at EPA who have devoted their careers to helping realize this shared vision, while faithfully administering environmental laws.

The chapter can also state shared environmental ambitions and goals, for example in relation to climate change.

Our goals were (1) to compare the trajectory of depressive symptoms among boys and girls from childhood into adolescence; (2) to analyze the role of genetic, shared, and unique environmental factors in depression among prepubertal and pubertal male and female twins; and (3) to investigate a possible common etiology between liability to depression and one salient index of the child's environment: past - year life events.