Sentences with phrase «socially conscious»

So can charitable and socially conscious gifts like donations to food banks or «toy mountains,» investments in environmental companies or funds, or sponsorship of children in developing countries.

A socially conscious fund may emphasize, for example, environmentally friendly companies, or firms with diverse hiring practices.

Here at Charity charge we believe giving is better than receiving, so we created the only credit socially conscious credit card that benefits any nonprofit of your choice.

Renewable energy ETFs remain popular with socially conscious investors despite the fact oil prices have remained relatively low for 2017.

British Travel Press Award - winning travel author Becki has backpacked throughout southeast, eastern Asia and Europe and aims to spread a message of perception changing and socially conscious travel.

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From the back cover: From the celebrated author of the socially conscious horror novels THE VEGAN REVOLUTION... WITH ZOMBIES and BOOT BOYS OF THE WOLF REICH, David Agranoff, comes a grim tale of eco-horror.

Because, you know, Amazon wasn't socially conscious enough, or some such.

Sometimes it comes up at a professional conference, drinking coffee in the corner of a hotel meeting room with a clutch of social workers, most of them wearing the dirndl skirts and dangling earrings of the socially conscious woman of a certain age.

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

But Mandel's writing includes essences of noir and of the socially conscious novel, and she achieves - through effortless shifts in point of view, and a sparseness that indicates a real sense of sophistication - a highly literary novel.

Do Michel and Rick represent the indifference of their generation, or are teenagers more socially conscious in the Information Age?

She is principal at ZG Communications, a passionate marketing consultancy working with publishers, authors, and socially conscious ventures.

This February, T.C. Boyle returns with «a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world.»

YA / Special Interest: McKibben is a compelling storyteller, and socially conscious teens will be gripped by his tales of activism.

Bluelist is this year's socially conscious, well - informed travel agenda, capturing the world's human and scenic wonders in...

On the road in sport mode Press «drive» and pull out of the hotel parking lot entrance South of Market, and the electrically driven rear wheels push the car very quietly through stop - and - go traffic in the socially conscious City by the Bay.

Or conversely, some unions will attempt to make socially conscious investments such as avoiding weapons manufacturers.

The goal of an IB education is to create responsible, socially conscious adults who use their cross-cultural education to promote world peace.

Odiaka has a long history with nonprofits and socially conscious organizations.

Skills like collaboration, communication, strategizing, cooperation, empathy, compassion, leadership, cultural literacy, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, critical consumption of information, socially conscious decision - making, critical thinking, adaptability, flexibility, networking, resilience, persistence, and the list goes on.

Bellas father explained that Bella had always been socially conscious ~ but that as parents ~ he and his wife tried to provide examples and instill these positive traits in her.

Piñeda, a student at California State University, Chico, had been asked in early fall 2002 to mentor the academy's students through his membership in a national organization called Students in Free Enterprise, which enlists mentors from the academic and business worlds to help university students create socially conscious, profitable businesses.

Don't look so surprised: This may be a Disney — Marvel comic - book film — and, as such, pretty much designed by one of the world's biggest corporations to generate piles of money — but these movies have become steadily more politically self - aware and socially conscious over the years.

Common and Andra Day united for a moving, socially conscious performance of «Stand Up for Something» at the 90th Academy Awards Sunday.

Meanwhile, Andrew's announcement is giving his socially conscious mother a public relations nightmare.

Nyong» o does what she can with a couple of powerful moments, but her socially conscious spy never really finds a place to settle in a story that's teaming with larger - than - life characters.

John Goodman plays the Common Man that Turturro thinks he's dong so much to help with his socially conscious plays.

«Knock on Any Door looks like a throwback to the socially conscious gangster movie of the 1930s... the resurrection of a dying genre.»

It is perhaps the most socially conscious Marvel film to date, exploring the struggle between isolationism as a tool for safety and the cost of failing to use your resources to help others in need.

Vincent Lindon, who won the Cannes best actor prize three years ago for another socially conscious drama directed by Brizé, THE MEASURE OF A MAN, does what he does best again and plays a charismatic everyman with tremendous conviction.

One of Warner Bros» best «ripped from the headlines» socially conscious films — they did a lot of them in the 1930s.

Now, the studio is starting to reap some of the rewards for their fiscally savvy and socially conscious thrillers.

In the interim, however, she cranks out hit pop tunes for Joel and a variety of musical acts, developing a successful songwriting career while getting involved in disastrous romances, including a marriage to «socially conscious» songwriter Howard Caszatt (a hilarious Eric Stoltz) and an affair with married disc jockey John Murray (Bruce Davison).

Yet it was also a time of great artistry, with gritty realism staking a firm claim on the cinematic landscape along with lush melodramas, socially conscious dramas, and bright musicals.

In addition to that socially conscious twist, there's also a gay marriage to plan: Teddy's best friend, Pete (Dave Franco), has come out of the closet since the last movie.

Variety reports that Jordan Peele won the first - time feature director award at Saturday night's ceremony for his socially conscious thriller «Get Out.»

The album includes socially conscious new single, «Black America Again» featuring Stevie Wonder and the anthem «Letter to the Free,» the end - title track to Ava Duvernay's powerful Oscar - Nominated documentary 13TH, for which he also received the 2017 Emmy for «Best Music and Lyrics.»

Two white men brought the story to the screen: writer Dennis Foon, a playwright known for socially conscious children's plays, and longtime camera operator, but only second - time director Stephen Campanelli.

Loach continues to make socially conscious films, but for all praise and awards garnished on I, Daniel Blake, it's unlikely it'll have the same uniquely - focused impact as Cathy.

Some, like The Post and Get Out, are socially conscious and «of the moment»; others, like Phantom Thread or Call Me by Your Name, feel like they stand outside of time.

Towards the end of Dirty Computer, «I Like That» is a sparse fusion of electronic and gospel triumph, «Don't Judge Me» is a tranquil, somber, and beautiful bidding, «So Afraid» is profoundly earnest and symphonic, and closer «Americans» merges socially conscious decrees and satire with the jovial vibrancy of something like «Dance Apocalyptic».

The past 70 years have produced no shortage of good and interesting films inspired by the socially conscious tough - luck realism of gritty post-war Italian cinema.

Founded in 1983, and is unique for its international film program featuring a wide variety of documentary genres with political and socially conscious themes.

A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

In 2007, the Palm Beach International Film Festival conferred the World Visionary Award to Singh for his contribution to world cinema and his production of socially conscious films.

First, she and best friend Dionne (Stacey Dash) set up their humorless speech teacher Mr. Hall (Wallace Shawn) with socially conscious hot mess history professor Miss Geist (associate producer Twink Caplan).

While all of the attention has gone to socially conscious Oscar front - runners like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Get Out, Anne Hathaway and Dee Rees both quietly delivered two of the most powerful movies of 2017.

Founded in 1983, by festival director Ally Derks, it is unique for its international film program featuring a wide variety of documentary genres with political and socially conscious themes.

Of course, it's the type of strongly delivered, socially conscious message that many critics and studio chiefs do like, and Sundance is one of several film festivals where 99 Homes screened while it waited for a theatrical release.