scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAMS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OF ROSTOV STATE UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
F. Surkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Geoinformation Technologies ◽  
Tennessee Valley ◽  
History Of

During 1991–1998 at the Rostov State University, some programs related to the problems of environmental education were carried out. These programs kicked off with a visit to the United States by a delegation of environmental education specialists at the invitation of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Environmental Protection Unit. The implemented programs of cooperation, details of their implementation, and the results achieved are listed. The importance of involving schoolchildren and schoolteachers in the implementation of these programs was pointed out. The history of the emergence of the Center for Geoinformation Technologies of the Southern Federal University is described and the master’s program currently being carried out on its basis is mentioned

scholarly journals Look to Windward: The Michigan Environmental Protection Act and the Case for Atmospheric Trust Litigation in the Mitten State

2021 ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Jonathan Coumes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Potential Relief ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
History Of

Failure to address climate change or even slow the growth of carbon emissions has led to innovation in the methods activists are using to push decisionmakers away from disaster. In the United States, climate activists frustrated by decades of legislative and executive inaction have turned to the courts to force the hand of the state. In their most recent iteration, climate cases have focused on the public trust doctrine, the notion that governments hold their jurisdictions’ natural resources in trust for the public. Plaintiffs have argued that the atmosphere is part of the public trust and that governments have a duty to protect it. These types of lawsuits, known as Atmospheric Trust Litigation, have foundered on the shoals of courts wary of exceeding their powers, whether granted by Article III or state constitutions. The trouble in many cases, including Juliana v. United States, has been standing. Courts balk at declaring that any one actor has the power to affect climate change. Since they usually think one actor can’t fix the climate, redressability is out the window. Even if courts get past redressability, they believe the scale of any potential relief is just beyond the ability of a court to order. The number of lawsuits that have been filed suggests that that reasonable minds can differ, but most judges have found plaintiffs do not have standing before clearing the cases off their dockets. This Note contends that at least one state remains fertile ground for an atmospheric trust lawsuit. Michigan’s 1963 Constitution implies that the atmosphere is within the public trust, and the Michigan Environmental Protection Act, passed to carry out the state’s constitutional duties towards the natural world, does away with most, if not all, of the standing issues that have stymied climate cases across the nation. Motions, briefs, and equitable relief are not the only way to avoid the onset of what could be the greatest calamity in the history of humanity, but in Michigan, at least, Atmospheric Trust Litigation may well be what breaks and rolls back the carbon tide.

scholarly journals The History of the International Twins Association (I.T.A.)

1976 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Lavelda ◽  
Lavona Rowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Psychology Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year ◽  
Silver Lake

It is both an honor and a pleasure to stand before you today to take a small part in the First International Congress of Twin Studies.For several years, we have dreamed of someday visiting the Mendel Institute. We first became aware of Dr. Luigi Gedda's work with twins in a psychology class at the State University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1954. We are here today as Ambassadors-at-large of a rather unique organization for twins - the International Twins Association, Inc.The International Twins Association, Inc (I.T.A.) was organized By and For Twins in 1932. Rev. Edward M. Clink of Silver Lake, Indiana, U.S.A. was on a tour of the United States. He encountered several sets of twins and thought that they should get together. He and his twin sister, Elsie Clink inserted an article in several newspapers requesting twins to bring a basket dinner to Center Park in Warsaw, Indiana, on Sunday, August 29, 1932. Twenty-four sets of twins were present at that first meeting.One year later, a basket dinner was served to 200 sets of twins. And by the next year, 400 doubles and 2000 onlookers were present. The 4th annual meeting in Warsaw Park in Indiana in September 1935 found more than 900 sets of twins parading before 5000 spectators. That year, many states of the union were represented.On August 1937, Fort Wayne's Trier Park in Indiana was host to 1,900 sets of twins for the 5th annual convention with 10,000 spectators. But the largest attendance, still unequalled to our knowledge, occurred the following year on August 29, 1937 when the National Twins became known as the International Twins Association, Inc. An old newsclipping states that 20,000 twins were in attendance. At this time co-officers were elected (a set pf twins holding an office to emphasiee the twin idea), and By-laws written to govern the association. The International Twins Association, Inc. (I.T.A.) conventions were held in Fort Wayne until 1939. Then the conventions moved from city to city throughout the United States, giving more twins an opportunity to learn about this unique fraternal organization.

Institutional activism: documenting contemporary women artists in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Ferris Olin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
State University ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Activism

The Margery Somers Foster Center, based at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library on the Douglass College campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is a resource center and digital archive focused on women, scholarship and leadership. Numerous intersecting initiatives based at the center, library and university are making visible the lives, works and contributions to cultural history of contemporary women artists active in the United States.

scholarly journals The American Hospital in Moscow: A Lesson in International Cooperation, 1917–23

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-574
Author(s):  
Susan Grant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Medical ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Relationship Of

In its examination of American Medical Aid to Russia, this article shows how the best of intentions can have the potential to go horribly awry. It argues that the competing binary forces of international collaboration and goodwill versus political tensions and uncertainty combined to create an environment wherein actors and agents inhabited an ever changing and unpredictable international stage. Could American philanthropic organisations and individuals overcome political volatility, financial restrictions and ideological barriers? Just what would it take to establish an American hospital in Moscow, the Bolshevik seat of power? The attempt to establish the hospital proved to be an exercise in patience, persistence and prudence (although not always in equal measure). This article shows that international cooperation, while undoubtedly complicated, was certainly possible. The flow of information, materiel and personnel between the United States, Germany and Russia proved that good intentions, trust and a will to help others were valued. The history of American Medical Aid to Russia also demonstrates that the Quaker role of facilitator and interlocutor was vital in establishing a relationship of trust between Soviet Russia and the United States. This article discusses the difficulties that philanthropic organisations faced when navigating the choppy international waters of the early 1920s and highlights the rewards of successfully doing this. It argues that basic human relationships and trust were just as, if not sometimes more, important than ideology in determining the tenor of early US–Soviet relations.

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