And there's the rub: we as a global society are increasingly dependent on science, yet increasingly ignorant of it.
Mr. KRISHTALKA: We have to do a much, much better job especially if we hope to be competitive in a global society that is increasingly scientific and increasingly technological.
In fact, a more egalitarian society here at home could translate into a more egalitarian global society.
Jobs are great, but welfare should be used to thwart the inherent economic uncertainty of a capitalistic, global society.
Ms. Olsen-Dyhr is committed to Green Trade liberalization and believes the global society must find a constructive way to combat global climate change.
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Then try to imagine the alternative -- that in a collapsing global economy and society we will stand by and simply watch the slide.
The creative in the show is a microcosm of where we are as a society and industry: global, fractured, and increasingly riddled with bouts of attention deficit disorder.
She advises consulting a good travel doctor for a list of recommended vaccines and medications (the International Society of Travel Medicine has a global directory online).
At the core is its multistakeholder model that leverages the collective wisdom of leaders from business, government, the media, academia, the arts and civil society by building a global platform for collaboration and action to address priorities on the global agenda.
Luckily for global society, contextualization is a natural ability in the female brain and the code we create can enable and transform context.
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Speaker at the recent i7 Summit in Chantilly, Paris, a Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society , Kyung H.
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At a global summit held in Zurich by the International Menopause Society, experts concluded younger healthy women should have no fears about taking HRT in the first few years of menopause to relieve symptoms.
Some 280 teachers, researchers, young people, ministry officials and representatives of international organisations and NGOs, participating in the Conference, stressed the importance of taking into account a variety of approaches, connecting the global to the local, inviting action, inspiring people, involving society, and looking at education as a tool to produce concrete solutions for biodiversity-related problems.
They can be pioneers in helping our society move to the next stage of development in a global economy.
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For Edelman, global citizenship resonates most as a term describing the larger responsibility business has to society.
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The HELP initiative has established a global network of catchments to improve the links between hydrology and the needs of society.
And, it is a global problem of some magnitude as the effects are not limited to any one society or even continent.
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The sustainability and development problems that we as a society face are as varied as they are complex and will require both global and community-scale solutions.
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With the growing recognition that major natural events can have abrupt global impacts, this project is a timely opportunity to assess the sensitivity of modern society to extreme natural threats.
She emphasized on education as the most important medium for promoting peace, tolerance and meaning of being global citizens which definitely will have a long term impact for development of a pluralistic society.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) is part of a powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests that are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to address the blatant need for coordinated, global action and confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss.
We need to create a whole-government, whole-society approach that learns from and taps into the new global geography of innovation, the waves of innovation coming from Indian designers focused on the rural poor, the talent factories of a resurgent China, the petro-dollar-fueled innovation hubs of the Middle East and the disaster-honed civil innovation capabilities of Chile, for instance.
The result was an amazingly successful venture called the Kairos Society, a student-run nonprofit that connects undergraduate entrepreneurs with business leaders to create innovations with global impact.
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As innovators and as contributors to an increasingly global community, companies like HP have an opportunity and a responsibility to make a vital and lasting contribution to society.
Having largely weathered the global recession, Latin America continues to demonstrate its economic and social potential to become a vibrant, prosperous and equitable society.
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