Sentences with phrase «smooth human journey»

A quick photographic Earth Day note: Even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at the global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods.

The trailer grabbed me, given my interest in innovators pursuing progress along both prongs of the energy quest that's needed to smooth the human journey in this century — one being to broaden the options of the billions with no sustainable energy choices.

It's one variant on my stump speech on the power of the emerging «Knowosphere» — the fast - expanding menu of ways to share and shape ideas — to smooth the human journey.

Their work has been a valuable prod to the community of scientists and policy analysts aiming to smooth the human journey, resulting in strings of additional studies.

On many issues relevant to charting a smooth human journey in this century, arguments are often framed between camps seeking to promote and spread «sustainable» behaviors and those pushing to advance and / or disseminate «better» technologies.

Dot Earth began five years and 2,000 posts ago as an open exploration of ways to smooth the human journey in a fast - motion century on a finite planet.

The exchange centers on Lynas's new book, «The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans,» and particularly on his conclusion that some technologies that have been anathema to environmentalists are vital to a smooth human journey in this century — particularly nuclear power and crops developed using biotechnology.

But it certainly doesn't hurt to try, given the extraordinary gulfs on the planet now between haves and have nots, the signs that business as usual will be hard to fit on a finite, increasingly human - shaped planet and the fast - expanding capacity to share and shape ideas in ways that smooth the human journey.

I would love to see Ian, Athena, Brigid and others weigh in here, as well, and / or anyone else seeking a role in the global energy quest that'd be required for a smooth human journey in the next half century or so.

When I left the staff for Pace University, the blog moved to the Opinion section, but my prime mission remains the same: examining ways to smooth the human journey and make information matter in a noisy age.

Cross was one of hundreds of attendees drawn from what I call «Generation E,» people (mostly, but not exclusively, young) committed to smoothing the human journey in the next few generations through a focus on energy, the environment, enterprise, equity and education.

Every lunch table and breakout session I attended reinforced the reality that more and more campuses and organizations are working hard to foster crosstalk and communication innovations aimed at smoothing the human journey in this century.

5:45 p.m. Updated below I spent 48 hours at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last weekend and will be sporadically posting a string of observations on themes and discussions related to smoothing the human journey.

Not exact matches

I'll be adding more here on presentations made at the meeting, but I'm off to another one now, on how the Internet might help smooth the journey toward a stable prospering human population.

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

Who do you know who is working to smooth the journey toward a stable, prospering human population with a focus on today's poorest regions?