Not exact matches
This runs monthly events with the goal of exploring all the areas of business activity in
which tech entrepreneurship can
solve big social and
environmental problems.
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.
«We examined the design principles behind kirigami,
which is an efficient and beautiful art form, and applied them to our work to develop a much stronger and stretchable conductor of power,» says Ren, also a member of UB's RENEW Institute,
which is dedicated to
solving complex
environmental problems.
In the program,
which is the only one of its kind in the United States, students devise business plans for
solving environmental problems.
The mission of the Marine Sciences Program at Savannah State University is to provide research, education, and outreach programs
which contribute to a vital, technically qualified, intellectually thoughtful, and ethnically diverse community of individuals capable of creatively
solving problems and answering questions related to coastal and ocean ecosystem health,
environmental quality, and fisheries sustainability.
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.
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.
The award,
which was first given in 2010, was begun as a way to affirm that all people, regions, and countries have a share in
solving our planet's
environmental problems.
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.
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.
In the face of
environmental risks, he insists that we «reject a magical conception of the market,
which would suggest that
problems can be
solved simply by an increase in the profits of companies or individuals.»
We wanted to know: how can buildings -
which use 50 % of all the energy consumed - help
solve the
environmental problem of global warming?
The idea that without stronger and enforceable sustainability criteria biofuels may increase as many social and
environmental problems as they
solve is one
which is increasingly gaining acceptance.
Long ago, John Brunner wrote a novel in
which the world's
environmental problems were
solved by the richest ten percent of the world population self - destructing.
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.
Where the ecomodernists argue that we must develop new and better technologies, especially energy technologies, if we are to
solve environmental problems, in Laudato Si» we are told that «to seek only a technical remedy to each
environmental problem which comes up is to separate what is in reality interconnected and to mask the true and deepest
problems of the global system.»
And sure enough, Healthbox has opened up a London branch, HealthXL accelerator run by Startupbootcamp in Dublin has just opened applications and Bethnal Green Ventures (
which I help run) has just launched six new tech startups trying to
solve social and
environmental problems.
Searching for position at ABC company as an
Environmental Engineer
which allows for the use of complex
problem solving, understanding of chemistry and a background in engineering.