Sentences with phrase «toxic work world»

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Anyone who has spent any time in the corporate world probably knows what a search for a superstar is like — and probably knows what working with someone toxic is like as well.

The church leadership was so utterly toxic that I left and took up work in the corporate world.

We are Committed to working with industry and consumers to rid the world of toxic, unsustainable materials..

Using a world café model, groups discussed four questions: what are the common points of toxic stress within our region, how can we prevent the pile up of chronic and toxic stress on babies, how do we currently build the skills of adults in our region, and how can we work smarter and how can our policies better support our families and communities.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

But the green beauty world has been hard at work creating fragrances that are less toxic and smell just as good (if not better) than their conventional counterparts.

I left the western medicine world and started working with functional medicine doctors, who discovered lyme disease, PCOS, hypothyroidism, heavy metal accumulation, toxic mold levels, leaky gut, candida and much more.

Iron Crows (Unrated) Eco-documentary chronicling the dangerous work of the 20,000 peasants who risk their lives daily to earn $ 2 a day scavenging ships from all over the world being dumped in a toxic naval graveyard located in the port city of Chittagong.

Sophie Jung's new body of sculpture and performance work made in response to Äppärät creates an associative chain between — among other seemingly disparate phenomena — handheld origami fortune telling devices; hand - woven (and hence «unique») Ikea rugs produced in the developing world; hand gestures that indicate money, salt, resistance and digital navigation; sock puppetry, online and offline; «life hacks» involving fixing drowned iPhones with dry rice; «deskilling» in manual labour and in art; repetitive strain injuries; toxic «e-waste»; and Lady Macbeth's «out damned spot!»

We are also founding members of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance of organizations, businesses, and thought leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, and the environment.

They are working to protect communities from toxic coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.

A Google search on «Plastic Pollution Coalition» (a group claiming to represent «more than 500 member organizations» dedicated to «working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts») yields almost 90,000 hits, including a video made with Jeff Bridges for the campaign.

We look at an overview of the current financial crisis and the reasons for it — Toxic assets and why the banks lent so much to people with so little — The Role of The Bank of England and whether reduction in interest rates is working — The possibility of Deflation — Short selling of bank shares — The World shedding 70,000 + jobs a day — Madoff — How long the recession is likely to last.

It will require a deep investment in the development, testing, continuous improvement, and broad replication of innovative models of cross-disciplinary policy and programmatic interventions that are guided by scientific knowledge and led by practitioners in the medical, educational, and social services worlds who are truly ready to work together (and to train the next generation of practitioners) in new ways.88, 89 The sheer number and complexity of underaddressed threats to child health that are associated with toxic stress demands bold, creative leadership and the selection of strategic priorities for focused attention.