LIST OF AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS

The National Contest Russian Ecology 2003 for the Best Newspaper/Magazine Publication in the Special Nomination - ROLL Program in Russia: Changing Life for the Better

1. Mironov G., Kuzmina G.

Special issue of the newspaper Woodland Krasnoyarye.

This publication covers ROLL forest projects carried out in Krasnoyarsk Krai from 1998 to 2001. Thanks to ROLL Program a mechanism for promoting and introducing effective low-cost forest protection projects was put in place in this region. The experience of all ROLL forest projects is now being replicated in other regions of Siberia and European Russia.

Krasnoyarsk, January 2004, Issue N 1.

2. Lisovsky S. “

ROLL in Russia: Practical Environmental Work”

The Society and Ecology newspaper, N 2, 2004, St.Petersburg.

This article describes the effort of ROLL project participants to eliminate oil pollution near the city of Primorsk in Leningradskaya Oblast.

3. Grankina M.

“Who Will Go to Pick Berries?”

The Environmental Business Journal, N 1, 2004, Moscow

This publication describes the successful experience of a ROLL project in introducing environmentally friendly and economically effecive techniques for growing plantations of cranberry on spent bogs. The project serves as a vivid example of rational nature use and the application of environmentally responsible approaches in the process of business activities.

4. Pudova T.

“Richard Aishton: We Are Helping People to Live Better”

A special issue of the BOOS Journal (Business, Organization, Strategy and Systems), Moscow, August 2003

This publication is devoted to the ROLL Program and its projects implemented in the Caspian Sea region.

5. Yakovleva E.

“Carol Peasley: We Have to Unite and Take Action”

Safety Barrier Magazine, N 8, Moscow, 2003

This interview with the USAID Russia Mission Director (2000-2004) covers the activities of the United States Agency for International Development in Russia with an emphasis on the ROLL Program and the issue of environmental protection.

6. Elk O.

“Effective Investment in the Socio-Environmental Sphere”,

The Business and Society Journal, N N 20-21, 2004, Moscow

This article is intended for the business audience potentially interested in social investment. The ROLL Program is presented as a successfully functioning socio-environmental investment model. The journalist dwells upon the advantage of cooperation with such program as ROLL, which knits together interests of three sectors – government, business and nonprofit bodies as well as interest of any person who takes care of himself and his family.

7. Bogdanov E.

“The Second Meeting of the Friends of Reserve Islands”, N 7/2003

“Friends of Reserve Islands: Theory and Practice”, N 9/2003

“No One Wants to Leave”, N 12/2003

“The Second Meeting of the Friends of Reserve Islands”, N 11/2003

The Reserve Islands Newspaper, Moscow, 2003

A series of publications in the Reserve Islands Newspaper (Moscow, 2003) devoted to Nature Reserve Seminary as an Instrument of Engaging Schoolchildren in Environmental Activities on Protected Areas - a project of the Nature Reserves (Zapovedniki) Center carried out in 2001-2002 with funding from the ROLL Program.

The team of this project decided to bring together scattered initiatives and projects devoted to working with children on PNAs and form a national environmental movement entitled Friends of Reserve Islands. Thirty specialists from nature reserves and national parks were trained at the Zapovedniki Environmental Center to become the founders of this movement in the regions by implementing projects they had designed during the training. This project is now successfully continuing after the end of ROLL funding. Thus, two national-scope meetings of Friends of Reserve Islands joined by the young participants in the Friends of Reserve Islands Movement were held in 2001 and 2003.

8. Moskvin B.

“To Live by the Law of Measure. Ecotourism is a Good Business”

The Tourist Journal, N 1, 2004, Moscow

This publication contains a brief review of ROLL projects supporting the development of ecotourism in the regions of Russia.

9. E.Kareva

“ROLL Program in Russia. Visiting Ryazan”

OBSERVE, BECOME INSPIRED, AND SAVE

TheEnvironmental Alarm Newspaper, N 1, March 10, 2004, Ryazan

This is a report from the photo exhibiton “While Creating, Do Not Destroy!” supported by the ROLL Program within the framework of the national journalists contest Russian Ecology sponsored by the Guild of Environmental Journalism at Russia’s Media Union.

10. Vinogradov L.

“Come to Know the Nature of Your Native Land”

My Moscow Journal, N 2, Moscow, 2004

The author of this article discusses the development of ecotourism in Russia on the whole, and within the Green Ring of Moscow ROLL project in particular.

11. Krasnogorskaya I.

“Take Care of the Pence and the Pounds Will Take Care of Themselves or How the West is Teaching Us Civilized Nature Management”

The Natural Resources Bulletin Newspaper, NN 17-18, April 2004, Moscow

This article contains a detailed account of the achievements of ROLL energy-efficiency projects fulfilled in the Volga Federal District.

The projects created significant, ongoing savings in energy costs and have proved that pooling the efforts of non-governmental organizations, municipalities, and businesses can solve some of the most difficult issues that involve the technical and social infrastructures of Russian society.

12. Kovalenko N.

“Pollution, Monitoring, Analysis and Protection of Ecological Systems”

The Ecological Systems and Devices Magazine, N 7, Moscow, 2003

This is a scientific article written by a ROLL project participant and devoted to utilizing upgraded sewage treatment technologies in various industries.

13. Shapkhayev S.

“The Court Began to Judge: Turmoil Persists Around the National Park”

“The Collision around the National Park Comes to an End”

The Buryatia Youth Newspaper, April 14 and 21, 2004, Ulan-Ude

These articles are about the issue of building the Russia-China oil pipeline (by YUKOS and Transneft oil companies). This question was finally settled with much help from the Baikal Public Environmental Expertise Center that was established as a result of the implementation of a ROLL project “Establishment of Public Environmental Expertise Centers” in 1997 under the auspices of the Buryatia Regional Association on Lake Baikal. Up to date, this Center is continuing its activities in coordinating public expertise of projects to build gas and oil pipelines on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia.

14. Rantsane Yu.

“New Technology for a Healthier Power Engineering Industry”

The Economy and Time Newspaper, N 10, March 15, 2004, St.Petersburg

This article is devoted to one of the most successful ROLL projects on reducing emissions from thermoelectric and nuclear power stations carried out by the research and production firm Ecotekh from Pskov.

15. Khalikova E.

Men and Ecology

The Vartandash (Compatriot) Journal, N 4, 2004, Ufa

This article describes a topical ROLL project that demonstrates the risk to reproductive male health in environmentally unsafe regions.

16. Sapozhnikova G.

“When a House has a Master”, N 16 (386), April 16, 2003

“The Earth Day”, N 18 (388), April 30, 2003

“A Small Town at a Big Exhibition”, N 24 (394), June 11, 2003

“Janitors Take the Baton”, N 27 (397), July 2, 2003

The Pushchino Environment Newspaper, Pushchino, Moscow Oblast

A series of small newspaper pieces written by a ROLL project participant G.Sapozhnikova was presented for the contest. These publications give one an idea of the activities of a ROLL project “Household Waste – A Source of Secondary Materials” which resulted in the appearance in the city of Pushchino of a system of separate household waste collection.

17. Chepikova M.

“Insurance as a Panacea for Preventing Economic Insolvency”

The Labor Protection and Industrial Safety Newspaper, February 2004, Ufa

This article is devoted to a ROLL project that visibly demonstrated the advantages of ecological insurance as an effective incentive promoting modern economic development. Thanks to this project – Practical Activities to Introduce Environmental Insurance and Audits in the Republic of Bashkortostan – the successful experience of insurance companies and industrial plants of Moscow and Leningradskaya oblasts was adapted in this republic.

18. Krasnov V.

“How to Find a Feather of the Fire Bird?”

The Red Spark Newspaper, Borovichi, Novgorod Oblast, June 2004.

This article describes the experience of a ROLL project that put in place a system for recycling solid household waste in a rural municipality using the resources of the local government. This system involves 7 villages located in the Valdaisky National Park, some of which are situated on the banks of Lake Borovno (1,003 hectares), which is a source of drinking water for local residents. Special sites for storing waste were arranged, waste removal schedules were drawn up, and information activities were carried out among the local public, village headmen, and the management of the national park.

19. S.Prokudin

“It is Never Late to Learn”

The Business Kuzbass – New Age Journal, NN 1-2, January-February 2004, Kemerovo

“A Second Life to Transport Waste!”

The Business Kuzbass – New Age Journal, N 7, July 2004, Kemerovo

These articles are about the ways and means of addressing the issue of collecting and processing waste oil which, on the one hand is industrial waste and, on the other, is a valuable secondary material. The solution to this problem was offered by the participants in a ROLL project Collecting and Recycling Waste Oil in Kuzbass.