Sentences with phrase «solve an environmental problem for»

«The Administration's budget request stifles innovation, future economic growth, and job creation,» said Dr. Robert Gropp, co — executive director of The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) in Washington, D.C. «These deep cuts to scientific research and education programs will negatively impact our ability to improve public health and solve environmental problems for years to come.»

The capstone Group Projects, which involve teams of three to six students working collaboratively for nine months to solve an environmental problem for a real client, serve as the master's thesis for Bren students and are a signature of the school's curriculum.

Not exact matches

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

SOCIAL IMPACT X DESIGN From health care and education to housing and environmental degradation, learn how design has been used by businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to create inclusive products, services, and strategic frameworks that solve «wicked» problems, identify sustainable solutions, and create even greater benefits for the communities they serve.

For 30 years, SVN has been the leading peer - to - peer network of mission - driven business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors who are leveraging the power of business to solve social, economic, and environmental problems.

Our thesis is that a company designed to solve a meaningful social or environmental problem is better positioned for outsized financial returns over time.

The idea that the quest for economic growth alone will solve environmental problems is no longer plausible.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

Other speakers emphasised: the impact of cheaper and more accessible digital technology on identifying as well as solving problems (Mr Salesh Kumar and Dr Washington Otieno); the importance of realising the nutritional and economic value of food as well as accounting for the environmental impacts of food production (Dr Karen Brooks); and the opportunities for novel products from so - called waste, such as phosphorus recycling (Dr Dana Cordell); Novaq (Dr Cedric Simon); and anaerobic digestion (Dr Bernadette McCabe).

The EPA took note of this in honoring the conservation organization and its Shaping the Future of Your Community program, for «significant contributions to environmental awareness and problem - solving.»

The JOSPONG Group of Companies of Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pureco Limited, a Hungarian water resource technology engineering firm, for the design and construction of a state - of - the - art, fully customised wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Kumasi to solve the environmental and sanitation problem of the city and its environs.

Dolores Funke, the Health Department's director for environmental health, said the problem may not be solved, but «the efforts that Erie County is making right now should have an impact we aren't going to see until a little farther down the road.»

cuomos trying to move money from one state agency to another how slick is that, a governor who wants unsurped power so he can play king and do things that no other governor has done in new york state and yes governor cuomo, it has not escaped the eyes of the people who serve under you wanting to move money between state agencys example and this one is right on the money no funds for the department of environmental conservation in cuomos 2012/2013 budget for hydrofracking BUT HOLD ON IF HE CAN MOVE MONEY BETWEEN STATE AGENCYS THAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED IS IT NOT, HOW CONVIENENT GOVERNOR CUOMO AND YOU DO THIS IN THE NAME OF MAKING NEW YORK GOVERMENT WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY, how naive do you think upstaters are and that includes the politicians under you, YOU ARE NOT A KING AND YOU WILL NOT BE GRANTED THESE NEW UNSURPED POWERS SHAME ON YOU.

The JOSPONG Group of Companies of Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pureco Limited, a Hungarian water resource technology engineering firm, for the design and construction of a state - of - the - art fully customized wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Kumasi, to solve the environmental and sanitation problem of the city and its environs.

Christopher highlighted the work of the «One Health Initiative, endorsed by the American Medical Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association,» which «embraces the concept that animal, human, and environmental health are inseparable and that the expertise of all health care professionals is essential for solving problems and advancing research.»

Here's a case for which solving an energy problem could ease a challenging environmental problem as well.

«At the same time, it's important that we know what is happening, for if China is unable to solve its climate and environmental problems, we will all suffer.

In the program, which is the only one of its kind in the United States, students devise business plans for solving environmental problems.

«There may be opportunities for a business to come in and solve an environmental problem and tap some profit potential as a way of driving a change, as opposed to having all the solutions funded by philanthropies or forced by government regulations,» Gaines says.

«From academia to business, we congratulate those who bring innovative solutions that will help solve some of the most critical environmental problems,» said Jim Jones, EPA's assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention.

Comparing two teachers» expectations for the same student solves this problem, because the two teachers work in the same school environment and evaluate the student at the same point in time, and thus observe the same environmental and contextual factors that might influence a student's educational success.

For example, to solve a problem in environmental science, students might need to employ physics, chemistry and earth science concepts and skills.

While the major reason for hip replacement is to treat disabling HD, other disorders can also benefit: Legg - Calvé - Perthes disease, permanent dislocation from trauma, bad fracture of the femoral head and neck, hereditary or environmental defects in union of bone centers, and excision arthroplasties that have failed to solve the problem.

Well known for its B Corporation Certification and partnerships with the investment community as a pre-qualification metric, B Lab is dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

West Paw Design was acknowledged for its work engaging companies, universities and individuals about the B Corporation movement, which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

For example, the American Veterinary Medical Association's Committee on Environmental Issues has stated that «managed cat colonies do not solve the problems of cat overpopulation and suffering, wildlife predation, or zoonotic disease transmission.»

These corporations have been certified by B Lab for their efforts to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems and have met the nonprofit's standards for performance, accountability and transparency.

For other manufacturers that have created products to solve some of the common problems associated with pick - up bags — such as environmental concerns and ease of use — the smaller details are becoming bigger selling points.

Patagonia's reason for existence is to force government and corporations to take action in solving our environmental problems... We've had lots of, you might call them, victories, but recently things have gotten a lot worse.

When we look at solutions down the road for global warming, for other environmental problems, for horrible inequities in income and wealth distribution in the world, we would do well to remember Einstein's warning, «We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.»

This is an interesting approach for Energy Star, representing the first time that the EPA (who administers the Energy Star program) is taking a grassroots approach to solving an environmental problem; by taking the message to the streets, they're hoping to reach folks in a personal, meaningful way that couldn't be accomplished with paper mailings and pamphlets.

The typed and pencil - edited draft was sitting deep in the files of the René Dubos Center for Human Environments, a nonprofit group formed by Dubos and William and Ruth Eblen in the 1970's to foster constructive approaches to solving environmental problems.

Her point, it seems, is to show that in the cases of acid rain, CFCs, and environmental tobacco smoke, these men used the same argument: the science was uncertain, concerns were exaggerated, technology will solve the problem, no need for government interference.

Sungevity is Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) exclusive US partner in residential solar, and was recently recognized by B Corp as one of the «Best for the World» companies for using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

The main challenge for addressing deforestation in the Amazon and in other biomes in Brazil lies in solving the serious land ownership problems facing the country, which are at the roots of its socio - environmental conflicts.

For two days, speakers, panelists and commentators will examine deep - rooted problems... evaluate how nations have sought to solve them with central planning and governmental mandates... explore market - oriented alternatives to command - and - control approaches... and address the pros and cons of international treaties and protocols that often involve one - size - fits - all «solutions» to narrowly defined environmental problems and concerns.»

And from the Grantham Foundation for the protection of the environment, supporting strategic communications and collaboration in solving the world's most pressing environmental problems.

Some of our research studies this change and its consequences for government policy to solve environmental problems.

Enhanced agricultural productivity produces resources for solving problems of lack of development and environmental degradation.

Through UNFCCC's Momentum for Change, local champions will be honored for their community - level work to solve environmental problems that also harm human health.

The county has pushed for years for the wind turbines industry that was an experiment, that failed and caused environmental problems that never were solved, along with the high cost to electric customers.

ESM 206 - Statistics & Data Analysis for Environmental Science & Management [4 units] Horst Develop skills and conceptual framework to effectively use data to solve practical problems.

Mark Duchamp is the executive director of the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW), which works to question the effectiveness of wind farms as a tool for solving a range of environmental problems.

For over a quarter century, EIA has been recognized by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and independent journals, like Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmental probleFor over a quarter century, EIA has been recognized by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and independent journals, like Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmenEnvironmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmental problefor its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmentalenvironmental problems.

Why not have that home serve as an incubator for those who want to test out new ideas and approaches to solving environmental problems, and at the same time, provide long - term support for established environmental projects?

Nicholas Parker, founder and chairman of the Cleantech Group, says investors and entrepreneurs are underestimating the need for technology to solve environmental problems.

It called for honesty in using science to solve and describe environmental problems.

If the scientists are wrong, and there is no AGW, but we act as if they are right and mitigate it, the result will be that mitigation up to 3/4 reduction in GHGs will save us money and strengthen our economy, and solve other environmental, as well as non-environmental, problems (local pollution, acid rain, wars for oil, etc).

In my nearly forty years of professional environmental activism, I have frequently had to rebut people on the left, for one or more reasons: their indifference to environmental problems, their antipathy to anything that smacked of representing or strengthening the scientific establishment (which post-modernists still vilify as being inherently tainted), and their hostility to any movement or theory which was antithetical to economic growth, which they still consider imperative to solving global poverty.

Sometimes we worry about the complexity of the environmental and social problems we're all facing but are reminded that Indigenous legal orders offer important tools for solving complex problems.