Ending the Tyranny of the Status Quo: Building 21st Century Environmental Law

Over the past few years, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI or the Institute) has worked to assess the notable successes and current challenges of United States environmental law to inform a new agenda for the twenty-first century. Founded in 1969, at the beginning of modern environmental law, the Institute has been both participant and analyst of an impressive record of major accomplishments in pollution reduction, greater protection of public health, and more intelligent conservation and management of natural resources, in both the public and the private sector. Like the majority of environmental lawyers and policy professionals examining today\u27s challenges, we also see that the United States confronts even more complex environmental and natural resource impacts today. These include climate change, growth in human consumption and population, the consequences of these changes for water supplies, food security, and preservation of biodiversity, and the general sustainability of economic and social development supported by a diminished and inequitably distributed base of natural resources. To undertake this assessment, we began by surveying the many reports and articles written on reform of environmental protection over the past twenty-five years and by conducting interviews of many of the early leaders in environmental law, environmental futurists, and current law students to obtain their insight and ideas for improvement. We then outlined a potential program (1) to envision what America\u27s environmental future should look like in 2050 and (2) to consider what ethical norms, objectives, implementation strategies, and public- and private-sector roles and responsibilities might form a sturdy platform to advance toward the objectives. This article offers a summary of our findings and a proposal for future dialogue

Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals

Engineers equipped with skills for a sustainable built environment have never been more critical, as government and industry sustainability goals such as the 2050 net zero target have significant implications for the construction sector. Concurrently, the UK’s Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has estimated that over 250,000 new workers will be needed by 2027 to meet demand. Besides this need for green skills, the sector is also looking towards more sustainable building materials, methods, and technologies, such as homegrown biogenic offsite manufactured (bioOSM) timber: an innovative technology requiring additional engineering and manufacturing expertise. To address this critical skills gap, the Timber Technology, Engineering, and Design (TED) Competency Framework was established by a coalition of academic and industry partners. This framework then informed the development of a hybrid training course that can prepare the next generation of timber engineers with the knowledge, transferable skills, and industry experience that can drive change towards sustainability in the built environment and inform a transformational approach in engineering education. This practice paper describes the development of the Timber TED framework and the launch of the corresponding training programme in September 2022. It also reflects on the initial implementation across two cohorts, delivered at the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology at the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford, England, in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University and Timber Development UK. This educational initiative showcases an innovative and replicable approach to upskilling and reskilling for green skills in engineering education

Impact of culture on stigma related to help-seeking behavior in college students

textThough many college students in the United States experience distress that could be ameliorated through counseling, not everyone is willing to seek help. Some estimates report that only 11% of those who have a diagnosable problem in a given year seek professional services (Vogel, Wade, & Hackler, 2007). This suggests that a barrier exists preventing individuals who could benefit from seeking help from doing so. Stigma is an umbrella term used to describe the negative social implications, such as those associated with mental illness, that serve as a barrier between student need and contact with services. The gravity of stigma was validated in the 1999 surgeon general's report on mental health that identified that the fear of stigma deterred individuals from being aware of their illness, seeking subsequent help, and remaining in treatment (http:// www.mentalhealthcommission.gov; Satcher, 1999). Stigma against help-seeking is a result of many different factors including, but not limited to, culture, societal influences, formal versus informal help-seeking, and gender norms. Understanding that it is not feasible to adequately address each of the previous factors, this report reviews stigma related to help-seeking across cultures and aims to discuss how different cultural values can influence an individual's willingness to seek formal help. Strategies for intervention and stigma reduction are also discussed.Educational Psycholog

Educating Business Professionals for 2010 and Beyond: Six Critical Management Themes and Skills to Emphasize

In this paper, based on the recent global and technological developments, I propose six main critical themes/skills which need to be emphasized much more than before for educating business professionals in management for 2010 and beyond. While there is interdependence among these six areas, I separate them for reasons of focus and understanding

Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Need for Cross-Cultural Education in Law School

This article urges law schools to follow their medical counterparts by incorporating cross-cultural education into their curricula. Part II discusses the Grutter v. Bollinger decision and the Supreme Court\u27s recognition of the benefits of diversity to legal education. Part III highlights the changing demographics of the United States and how those demographics require immediate response from the legal academy. Part IV considers the experience of medical education. This section begins by exploring a study of the medical profession conducted by the Institute of Medicine. The section then addresses medical schools\u27 response to the Institute of Medicine report and the subsequent incorporation of cross-cultural education into medical school curricula. Part V addresses the recent assessments by CLEA and the Carnegie Foundation regarding cross-cultural competency of lawyers. Part VI argues that the American Bar Association must take the lead and require law schools to incorporate cross-cultural competency into the education of America\u27s next generation of lawyers

A Generation at Risk: When the baby boomers reach Golden Pond

Hogg Foundation for Mental Healt

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Program in the Medical Office Clinic

The challenge of diabetes prevention is to reduce the financial and human costs of diabetes by preventing new cases and enacting social change. African Americans and Hispanics Americans have a high incidence of Type 2 diabetes because of factors that place them at risk for prediabetes. The purpose of this project was to plan the implementation and evaluation of a Type 2 diabetes prevention program in a medical office clinical setting. The clinic of interest was located in the downtown area of the city and provided care mostly to African American population. The Iowa model of evidence-based practice formed the theoretical framework for the study. The goal was to decrease the number of African Americans patients who will convert from prediabetes to Type 2 diabetes in the medical office clinic. The program was planned using the information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Road to Health toolkit. The outline covered a 6-week program. A pretest will be given to assess baseline knowledge of diabetes and diabetes prevention. The same test will be given after the implementation to evaluate if the program enhanced diabetes and diabetes prevention knowledge. Six months after the implementation of the program, nurses will complete a chart review to evaluate how many patients converted from pre-diabetes to Type 2 diabetes since the implementation of the project. The project will lead to the integration of a Type 2 diabetes prevention program in a medical clinic. It will increase the number of African Americans with prediabetes who will engage in lifestyle modification behavior. The project will also decrease the incidence of Type 2 diabetes among African Americans and reduce the health disparity of diabetes among the population

Attracting and Retaining Women in the Transportation Industry

This study synthesized previously conducted research and identified additional research needed to attract, promote, and retain women in the transportation industry. This study will detail major findings and subsequent recommendations, based on the annotated bibliography, of the current atmosphere and the most successful ways to attract and retain young women in the transportation industry in the future. Oftentimes, it is perception that drives women away from the transportation industry, as communal goals are not emphasized in transportation. Men are attracted to agentic goals, whereas women tend to be more attracted to communal goals (Diekman et al., 2011). While this misalignment of goals has been found to be one reason that women tend to avoid the transportation industry, there are ways to highlight the goal congruity processes that contribute to transportation engineering, planning, operations, maintenance, and decisions—thus attracting the most talented individuals, regardless of gender. Other literature has pointed to the lack of female role models and mentors as one reason that it is difficult to attract women to transportation (Dennehy & Dasgupta, 2017). It is encouraging to know that attention is being placed on the attraction and retention of women in all fields, as it will increase the probability that the best individual is attracted to the career that best fits their abilities, regardless of gender

Educating Business Professionals For Year 2010 And Beyond: Six Critical Management Themes And Skills To Emphasize

In this paper, based on the recent global and technological developments, I propose six critical themes/skills which need to be given a substantially more emphasis and coverage for educating business professionals in management for year 2010 and beyond.  While there is interdependence among these six themes, they are separated for the reasons of focus and understanding