Sentences with phrase «water rights activists»

As such, water rights activists call for the preservation and protection of freshwater sources so that all people may enjoy access to safe, clean, and free drinking water supplies.

Instead, Pinchbeck splices archival footage of Buckminster Fuller and his ideas with interviews with futurists such as Barbara Mark Hubbard and Richard Register, mycologist Paul Stamets and water rights activist Maude Barlow, as well as Sting, David Lynch, and actress Ellen Page.

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2009 — Maude Barlow, a widely celebrated activist and author of 16 books who co-founded the Blue Planet Project, an organization that champions the human right to water.

If civil rights activists could march from Selma to Montgomery under the threat of dogs and cattle prods and water hoses, can not you and I take a slap in the face without slapping back?

The meeting, held at AAAS headquarters, gathered scientists, engineers, health professionals, human rights advocates, community activists and policy makers to discuss water and human rights.

Rowland has since become an everyday activist in her county, standing up to protect water rights for families who have lived in the community for years.

Lawrence is also a singer and an activist for, among other causes, Native American treaty and water rights.

Whether it is a retail sales ban that prevents them from obtaining a dog or a cat from someone that can help them find the right animal, restrictions on access to international or domestic waters for the collection of aquatic species, or restrictions on the ownership of certain reptile species based on nothing more than their potential length, all of these things are legislation that sounds really good when it's written on paper or when testimony about it is delivered by an emotional activist who feels very strongly.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

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Animal rights activists cheered the fact that this was a burger that was truly cruelty - free, while environmentalists saw the potential to make meat without the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy consumption, and massive land - use demands.

Many activists worry that water rights issues are resulting in the commodification of this essential substance.

Cycling involves no carbon dioxide emission and hazardous gases that pollute the air and consequently water and soil, so if you switch from a car to a bike, you can claim the bragging rights as an environmental activist too — and eco-friendly is an always cool label to have in a green crowd.