The Environmental Justice movement seeks to link " social " and " ecological " environmental concerns, while at the same time keeping environmentalists conscious of the dynamics in their own movement, i. e. racism, sexism, homophobia, classicism, and other malaises of dominant culture.

The PCF initially supported the general strike but opposed the revolutionary student movement, which was dominated by Trotskyists, Maoists and anarchists, and the so-called " new social movements " ( including environmentalists, gay movements, prisoners ' movement ).

It was founded by environmentalists and other activists from social movements, taking as their most expressive leaders Carlos Minc, who soon returned to the PT, Fernando Gabeira, Alfredo Sirkis, Domingos Fernandes, Jose Luiz de France Penna and Mr Sarney Filho.

Called NIRV Center, it was conceived at the 1986 " Fate of the Earth Conference " by a group of Toronto environmentalists, and was Canada's first non-profit computer network serving non-profit and social change organisations ;

He called the environmental movement " among the most welcome social developments of the twentieth century ," but criticized environmentalists who promoted what he saw as overly pessimistic views that did not accept signs of improvement and progress.

Elihu membership has included journalists, authors, academics, independent and documentary filmmakers, U. S. Ambassadors, government officials, urban planners, artists, members of Congress, social activists, governors, actors, a Chairman of U. S. Federal Reserve, pop singers, medical doctors, architects, United Nations officials, environmental lawyers, United States Senators, composers, including David Shire and Maury Yeston, businessmen, foundation executives, environmentalists and others.

In 2002, Fortune called him “ the original hippie entrepreneur, the merchant of Marin County who got turned on to business when others were still dropping out ,” adding: “ Today Hawken occupies a unique niche in the American landscape, combining bottom-line business credentials regularly addresses corporate audiences with credibility among environmentalists and social critics.

However, there is malaise in the international community about the best way to approach these issues, with environmentalists weighing greatest importance on sustainability and those who fear eco-imperialism seeing economic growth as the greatest way to improve social, economic, and environmental well-being.

Each party is supported by two social groups ( conservatives by vested capital interests and the army, Greens by refugees and by environmentalists ).

Of note was the presence of Congressman Richard Ottinger, who was so moved by the turnout of working-class environmentalists who sought redress for the social and environmental inequities in their towns that he cancelled his agenda to discuss these problems.

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Both projects were defeated by locals ' and environmentalists ' opposition, as well as, for the former, staggering costs.

During this period of sustained and rapid growth it recruited extensively from former members of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, in addition to trade unionists, environmentalists, and community campaigners.

This group, mainly composed of former supporters of D ' Alema and Fassino ( gathered in the new Socialists and Europeans faction ), and some left-wingers and environmentalists, supported the creation of a new party only within the Party of European Socialists and opposed the proposal of the Democratic Party ( perceived as a mere addition of DS and DL with no reference at all to socialism ).

She was met with skepticism about these plans from such groups as environmentalists, economists and others, but in 2008, José Aponte de la Torre Airport was inaugurated at the base's former site.

:* Missouri environmentalists consider an eloquent denunciation by former Governor Smith of US Army Corps of Engineers plans to construct a dam the Current River as being one of the contributing factor to the plans ' defeat.

Support for Communists decreased sharply in the early 1980s, while later on the same decade environmentalists formed the Green League, which is now a medium-sized party.

For example, the left-wing Builders Labourers Federation in Australia, led by the communist Jack Mundy, united with environmentalists to place Green Bans on environmentally destructive development projects.

In the context of United Kingdom politics, it refers to a possible alliance on certain issues between the Conservative Party and ecologists or environmentalists such as those found in the UK Green Party.

Green parties are often formed in a given jurisdiction by a coalition of scientific ecologists, community environmentalists, and local ( or national ) leftist groups or groups concerned with peace or citizens rights.

Anthropocentrism has been posited by some environmentalists, in such books as Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman and Green Rage by Christopher Manes, as the underlying ( if unstated ) reason why humanity dominates and sees the need to " develop " most of the Earth.

Borlaug's name is nearly synonymous with the Green Revolution, against which many criticisms have been mounted over the decades by environmentalists and some nutritionalists.

The two Green River dams would have submerged more than of canyons in the federally protected Dinosaur National Monument, a move abhorred by environmentalists who did not want to see a repeat of the 1924 O ' Shaughnessy Dam controversy, when a dam was built in a scenic valley in Yosemite National Park.

In Wall's eyes, the Party suffered from a lack of media attention and " opposition from many environmentalists ", which contrasted the experience of other emerging Green Parties, like Germany's Die Grünen.

Other environmentalists believe that the ecosystem metaphor is just a way for business to appear ' Green '.

Throughout the rest of the history of environmentalism there has been debate and argument between more radical followers of this Deep Green ideology and more mainstream environmentalists.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

Supporters of environmentalists argue that " skepticism " implies a form of denialism, and that, in the US particularly, " large donations been made to Senators and Congressmen and sponsored neoliberal think tanks and contrarian scientific research.

He was one of the early environmentalists of India, and later he and people associated with the Chipko movement later started taking up environmental issues, like against large dams, mining and deforestation, across the country.

A number of environmentalists, including noted conservationist L. Martin ' Marty ' Griffin, have spoken against the continued operations of a large shellfish farm, the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, in Drakes Estero.

He initially worked as a personal injury lawyer, then worked with a large law firm, representing corporate defendants, before he started an exploration club for the wealthy in the 1980s, allowing rich customers to visit exotic locations, entertained and accompanied by scientists and environmentalists.

Due to the town's rural nature, low income and low population Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, Japan's richest man at the time, was able to build a large ski area and hotel without the kind of " organized opposition of environmentalists " which stymied his plans elsewhere in Japan.

This sparked environmental concerns, as one of the large wetlands that would be affected, Froberg's Marsh, was deemed to be of high value by Rhode Island environmentalists.

The processing of bitumen, however, releases large amounts of carbon dioxide, which has alarmed environmentalists worried about global warming and the Canada's carbon footprint.

Thanks to powerful intervention from MK Omri and his father PM Ariel Sharon, environmentalists fought off real estate developers and won a battle to develop Mount Hiriya and the surrounding agricultural lands into a sprawling public park slated to be almost three times as large as Central Park in New York.

The area was also part of the Klamath Basin water crisis pitting agricultural interests against endangered species water requirements, tribal interests, and environmentalists.

Also, while classical environmentalists saw human industry as the enemy of nature and nature as a victim needing to be saved ; bioregionalists see humanity and its culture as a part of nature, focusing on building a positive, sustainable relationship with the environment, rather than a focus on preserving and segregating the wilderness from the world of humanity.

Along with the Waterkeeper Alliance, he is also a part of Swim Drink Fish Music club, which is a project that unites artists and environmentalists in a music club to raise money for Waterkeeper organizations in Canada.

In 1971 plans for a bridge across the Austrian part of the lake were thwarted by environmentalists.

( Underlying map taken from the CIA World Factbook ) A bulldozer clearing native forest in the Chaco Boreal and environmentalists campaigning against it Alto Chaco, virgin forest in dry season Bajo Chaco, extensive cattle ranchingDeforestation for cattle farming in the Paraguayan part of the Chaco

Because this part of the route would pass by the Naardermeer, environmentalists oppose this plan.

The idea of declaring the Siachen region a " Peace Park " was presented by environmentalists and peace activists in part to preserve the ecosystem of the region badly affected by the military presence.