Such technologies adapt the environment, rather than the person, to support identified needs, choice, and control.
Dr. Melnick said participants envisioned small-scale, low-impact ecotourism that would sustain the environment rather than degrade it.
"There's a group of people comfortable responding to the environment rather than people who want to push the environment.
The fungi could be responding to seasonal variations or other changes in the environment rather than the oil, for example.
"It is probably more important for us to turn our focus to the environment rather than continue to talk strictly about the war," he said.
Look for long-term change and take time to really understand the environment, rather than just see it from your own perspective.
"It's really a way of turning [Orwell's] Big Brother inside out: you're tracking the environment, rather than the environment tracking you".
We urge lawmakers, suppliers and craftsmen to ensure that our art has a positive impact on the environment rather than contributing to forest destruction.
Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics.
All of the officials said that they were motivated to join the government team because they wanted to roll up their sleeves and actually do something about the environment, rather than urge somebody else to act.
Writing about environmentalists, he says, "The worse they can portray the environment, the easier it is for them to convince us that we need to spend more money on the environment rather than on hospitals, child day care, etc".
