As a result of growing environmental consciousness, the issues of sustainability and industrial ecology are guiding the development of the next generation of materials and processes.
Exactly how the Estates-General should deliberate proved to be the pivotal consciousness-raising issue.
They are touring in the name of promoting equality and raising public consciousness about issues facing gay, lesbian, and transgender people; a portion of the ticket price goes to the Human Rights Campaign.
The new federal transportation bill, for example, authorized funding for a program that seeks to prevent the crime of drunken driving not by raising public consciousness or issuing stiffer punishments — but by making the crime practically impossible to commit.
The elephant in the room, politely avoided whenever possible but never forgotten, is, of course, integration, impinging on these characters' worlds and consciousnesses, the issue all the more vexing since they are compelled to see "Negroes" not as aliens but as familiars, often childhood playmates, even sharing antecedents.
There now appears to be room in the national consciousness for issues besides the economy.
Social themes have gained in prominence in post-colonial India and serve to raise people's consciousness on issues such as India's independence movement, organ donation and family planning.
Educational campaigns, such as Choosing Wisely — begun in 2012 to raise Americans' consciousness about issues of overuse [ 21] — aim to foster patients' ability to more critically evaluate physician recommendations, and may help educate patients lack of awareness of personal over- and underuse.
