The monuments are creations of David Adickes, a painter and sculptor from Houston who envisioned the park as a place to foster understanding of the presidency.
The idea, said an agency spokesman, Stanley Young, is to foster understanding of the air board's effort to track and reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
That's a lot of movement in a short time, and its effect has been to raise awareness of trans issues, to foster understanding of and solidarity with transgender people.
The Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III to foster understanding of Asia, has a new president, Vishakha N. Desai, the first woman and the first Asian-American to head the organization.
John M. Templeton, a Tennessee-born investor and philanthropist who amassed a fortune as a pioneer in global mutual funds, then gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to foster understanding of what he called "spiritual realities," died on Tuesday in Nassau, the Bahamas, where he had lived for decades.
The New Industrial State's purpose was not to catalyze a political movement but to describe the economy as it was, to deflate faith in the omnipotent and benevolent market and to foster understanding of a world dominated by large industrial firms, by the planning system and the "technostructure".
Her TED wish was to create a one-day, global, cross-cultural film festival — a marathon of movies, amateur and professional, whose common thread was fostering understanding of, as she puts it, "the Other".
Still, experts said moving those conversations to a public forum could transform the Fed's relationship with Americans, fostering understanding of its policies and giving people a sense of ownership in its decisions.
Nonetheless, such illustrations have value in fostering understanding of the basic parameters of what's happening to the global commons (in this case the atmosphere) as a starting point for considering next steps.
"NSF's charter is to fund basic science and engineering research across all disciplines, including research that fosters understanding of human factors that can sustain our environment, prevent illness, maintain a robust economy, curtail conflict and advance democracy," said NSF's Judith Gan, head of legislative and public affairs, in a statement to ScienceInsider.
ESD is an effective way of fostering understanding of, and engagement in, issues of sustainable development among current and future generations.
