Sentences with phrase «vital place for people»

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But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

With so much of the industry divided on the benefits of e-reading versus the damage it can do to the vital indie bookstores — and with so many of the players in the industry, including BookPeople, divided on Everyone vs. Amazon — an evolution of this kind seems not only natural, but laudable; it means bookstores can still be the place to turn to for reading content, selection advice, and the sense of community that comes from people getting together to talk about a book.

Together they founded the Conservation Ecology Centre, a non profit organisation which reconnects and re-engages people with the natural world, increasing understanding through vital research, restoring wild places and caring for wildlife.

Literally hundreds of vital artists, and the countless people who have been touched by their creations, can look back today and say in wonder and gratitude that, if not for the Studio Museum, the cultural world would be a vastly di erent place.

What better way to «give back to the Gulf» — and to the people whose livelihood depend on a healthy Gulf — than to protect the deep reefs and string of «topographic highs» in the Northern Gulf, the spawning areas for tuna, the critical places for menhaden, grouper, snapper, shrimp and others, as well as the vital — but neglected — seagrass meadows of Florida's Big Bend area, from Panama City to Tampa Bay.

For many low - income people, however, a library remains one of the only places where a wide variety of resources can be accessed in one place, and those resources are vital.

New York City About Blog Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is the central hub of the global Placemaking movement, connecting people to ideas, expertise, and partners who share a passion for creating vital places.

New York City About Blog Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is the central hub of the global Placemaking movement, connecting people to ideas, expertise, and partners who share a passion for creating vital places.