Sentences with phrase «world as the planet»

During 24 Hours of Reality, you heard 24 presenters say we expect more floods and droughts around the world as the planet warms.

(02/21/2012) There may be less birds for birders to see in the world as the planet warms.

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With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Braiding together more than 40 years each in business profitability / marketing and organizing for social change, Shel Horowitz — known as «The TransformpreneurSM «-- is working to create a world that rewards business for human - focused, planet - focused values and actions.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Shel is known as «the Transformpreneur» ™... He is the founder of Going Beyond Sustainability, a company where he acts as a «Social Transformation Sherpa» in the new world where business success revolves around helping the planet.

If those people were as engaged as online World Cup viewers — and I'd venture that, on average, they were less engaged than people watching the most popular sporting event on the planet — those 10.7 million digital views would translate into an average - minute TV audience of 28,563 persons.

Today, it is the third most valuable company in the world with a $ 576.8 billion market cap and Bezos is the richest man on the planet with a net worth of $ 99.6 billion as of this writing.

As an internet entrepreneur myself, I feel partly responsible for a world in which private information can be instantly broadcast to the whole planet.

Having as many users as it does, as well as four of the seven most popular social media networks in the world (Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram), Facebook possesses what could reasonably be described as the strongest ad - pricing power on the planet.

But Trudeau will try to reposition Canada as more than a petro - state this week when he meets some of the planet's top business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

To think that Earth is the only planet with life and that some deity made just one world in the universe for us as well as making us in his image is just the depths of vanity.

That summer I realized that the very ways in which «progress» was being made — e.g., dominant development policies as well as economic programs in the industrialized world — were all part of the total network of processes that were destroying the basis of human life on the planet.

My concern for the salvation of the world intensified as my eyes were opened to the danger to the whole planet resulting from human excesses.

If your conclusion is anything but religion is harmful to the world as a whole, both its population and the planet itself, no matter how it makes you feel inside then i fear you have completely lost your grip on reality

I write from the standpoint of a Church of England parish priest and many of my examples are from that tradition, but I recognize that the Church of England is one church amongst many churches, just as Christianity is one religion amongst many world religions which are slowly learning to share with each other their spiritual treasures and to work together for peace, the relief of human need and the preservation of the planet.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Aliens created humans on this planet just as we are told from all ancient Civilizations around the world even the bible tells us from the book of Enoch, Ezekiel tells us they took him up into space in a ship does God need a ship?

Eschatology is concerned about the goal of humanity and the world; apocalyptic is consumed with the actual end of the planet earth as it is presently constituted.

Instead, it once again went to war pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.»

If we are truly honest with ourselves, each of us would feel that the world would be a better place if every soul on the planet shared our views and believed exactly as we do.

Let them destroy or devastate the planet... It is doubtful if a world that has forgotten God, as ours has, can deserve or even desire a better fate.

Right, so teach about how the world is actually a giant turtles back, and how in Guam the sun and planets are eyeballs of giants, and about how people climbed from the underworld as ants led by a coyote, and how we were sneezed out from a sleeping giant, and...

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

In fact, the more I learn about the world, the more I know about science, the more I am amazed about the mystery of this planet and this universe — and it strengthens my faith as opposed to weakens it.»

However, I believe that Boff's emphasis on the relationships between human beings and communities is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility for the planet, which every citizen of this world is to bear.

Still waiting for some tangible bit of argument with the majors, many of which were postulated by Sagan and Hawkings, such as Mankind's short time here on this planet in the historic context of the worlds evolution.

«These people,» Solzhenitsyn remarks, «who had experienced on their own hides twenty - four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: That nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self - styled Soviet regime.»

It is my judgment that the reforms that a morally concerned group of elite faculty would propose, even if all were quickly enacted, would not change the course of world affairs in such a way as to avoid catastrophe for the planet.

Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical forests as the world's poor cut trees for firewood and clear land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

«the worldwide flood» A) when did this happen (we have no idea) B) what was the extent of the flood, was it planet - wide or merely the world as they knew it at the time (it isnt clear)

As the world's leading natural and organic grocer we're all about healthy food and a healthy planet, and we've got bunches of passionate people in our community doing incredible things.

As well as being another fantastic Meat Free Monday, today is World Meat Free Day — 24 hours when the planet as a whole takes stock of its dietary habits and aspires to a healthier way of eating with people and planet in minAs well as being another fantastic Meat Free Monday, today is World Meat Free Day — 24 hours when the planet as a whole takes stock of its dietary habits and aspires to a healthier way of eating with people and planet in minas being another fantastic Meat Free Monday, today is World Meat Free Day — 24 hours when the planet as a whole takes stock of its dietary habits and aspires to a healthier way of eating with people and planet in minas a whole takes stock of its dietary habits and aspires to a healthier way of eating with people and planet in mind.

Diners across the planet will be tucking into a World Meatless Lunch today, as the event returns to raise awareness of the importance of cutting down on the amount of meat we eat, for the sake of people and planet.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

Not to mention, as Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet so aptly pointed out, we treat the world's oceans more like a toilet bowl than a sustainable food source.

Our brand is now stocked in prestigious stores around the world, such as Harrods, Planet Organic, Whole Foods Market, and Jones the Grocer.

In fact, if everyone in the world ate as much meat as those in western countries, we would need 4 to 5 more planets to sustain ourselves!

As principal author of Lonely Planet's World Food series, he'll go anywhere and eat anything for that ultimate foodie high.

While Diet for a Small Planet focused on vegetarianism as a way to combat world hunger and climate change, Epicure's message, via its globe - trotting author Anna Thomas, is that being vegetarian is no excuse to not pull off a glamorous dinner party.

adopting veganism as a part of the solution to world hunger by more efficiently using our planet's food resources

A socially and environmentally conscious company that uses commerce as a vehicle for positive change, SAMBAZON is committed to sharing Açaí wellness with the world in a way that supports people and planet.

Mesut is highly rated in the world as one of the best 10s on the planet, and yet he's continually being used as a 7.

I know a lot of us see Giroud as below world class but this guy can boast being among the top 3 best target man on the planet.