Singularity University aims to resolve twelve global grand challenges facing humanity today, which include: learning, water, space, health, prosperity, environment, food, energy, security, disaster resilience, governance and shelter.
Saving and improving the lives of girls and women is central to tackling every issue -- whether poverty, nutrition, education, child health, economic prosperity, environment -- of, in short, saving the world.
By cultivating a business-friendly, low "prosperity tax" environment while reducing the harms of carbon pollution, British Columbia's carbon tax has gone from maligned to celebrated, commanding a 64% public approval rating, according to a 2012 poll.
Thanking Obama for his support, Bernanke pledged to work to the "utmost" of his abilities for "a solid foundation of growth and prosperity in an environment of price stability".
So it may be appropriate timing that in this most Asian of mainland American regions, State Assemblyman Leland Y. Yee, Democrat of San Francisco, has introduced a resolution that urges the California Building Standards Commission to adopt standards that would aid feng shui, the ancient Chinese practice of promoting health, harmony and prosperity through the environment.
On this view, peace, democracy, prosperity, and the environment would be better served by a system in which the political allegiance and loyalties of persons are widely dispersed over a number of political units of various sizes, without any one unit being dominant and thus occupying the traditional role of the state (Pogge).
Our security, our prosperity, and our environment all require reducing our dependence on oil.
It is about an uninterrupted energy supply, national security, sustained economic prosperity, a healthy environment, and ultimately, survival.
It it is bottom of the 2009 economic prosperity index and built environment index.
Bush, 0 Miles traveled: Gore, 172; Bush, 0 Main message: Gore, environment and prosperity; Bush, getting out the vote.
Writers like John Burroughs and George Perkins Marsh captured the large and small glories of nights under the stars, and the risks to economic prosperity of a neglected environment.
