A Green school is energy efficient, higher performing school that can be environmentally beneficial. Importance of Green school lies in the environmental friendliness value it upholds. Service learning has emanated out of philosophies of progressiveness and pragmatism. Service learning enables students to grow and learn through active…

School based general education aught to be a future oriented subject. However, over the years, due to parental and grand-parental generations setting policies of education for the younger generation, education is always more past oriented than future oriented. This trend did not cause much of a problem when the change over time was moderate. As…

A 4-H exchange program in which eight youth from the Dominican Republic came to Indiana and a like number of Purdue University-sponsored 4-H members visited the Dominican Republic is described. The program, sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, was part of a larger program to strengthen youth leadership resources in both places through a…

The works of 20 futurists and their predictions for the year 2000 and beyond are examined according to four perspectives: Malthusianism, Utopianism (based on theories of William Godwin), Marxism, and social structuralism. Futurists may be grouped into one of the categories according to their theories about the interdependent problems of…

Discusses conservation and development from Indonesian viewpoint, focusing on problems encountered in the process of development and reconciling development with conservation. Topics addressed include pressures of population growth, concern for man and eco-development, global considerations, trends after Stockholm conference (common responsibility…

Discusses an appropriate framework for sustainable development in the Third World that concurrently addresses the efficient utilization and management of natural resources. Areas considered include: human dimension; sustainable development; complexity of inputs; kinds of training; indigenous scientific capability; transnational issues;…

Reprint of an address to the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Washington, D.C., March 2, 1989 by Bruce Halliday, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada. Discusses national and global problems and the Canadian perspective. (LZ)

Provided in this document are descriptions of reforestation projects and techniques presented by Peace Corps volunteers from Chad, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger. The purpose of the document is to aid individuals in trying to find solutions to the problems facing forestry in the Sahel. These projects include: (1) reforestation of Ronier palm…

This document describes the Conference of Ministers of Arab States Responsible for the Application of Science and Technology to Development (CASTARAB) which was organized by Unesco with the cooperation of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA). The Conference…

Highlights the tenth session of the United Nation's Governing Council. Indicates that a clearer course is needed for the United Nations Environment Programme and that additional funds are desirable. Includes an edited extract of Dr. Mustafa Tolba's (UNEP's Executive Director) closing address. (Author/JN)

Identifying the purpose of the Conference on Real Choices in Indian Resource Development: Alternatives to Leasing (Billings, Montana, January 1975) as exploring options available to American Indian tribes in the Great Plains re: the development of their own natural resources, this paper presents excerpts from participant speeches and comments…

The economic crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa threatens to condemn an entire continent to human misery unless stronger action is taken to control population growth, reverse ecological devastation, eliminate distortions in domestic economic policies, and increase external development finance. Substantial increases in financial assistance to Africa are…

Within the next 25 years each major world problem will continue to grow and challenge the finest minds for equitable solutions. Yet the core world issue, from which most other problems stem, is the maintenance of an equitable and dynamic equilibrium between world populations and world resources. We are faced with a set of challenges stemming from…

Examined are the mandates of the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention (not ratified by the United States), which set aside approximately two-thirds of the world's oceans as a "common heritage of mankind" to further the establishment of a "new economic order." The convention established an International Seabed Authority designed to…

Guidelines are discussed for developing and selecting instructional materials about ecopolitical issues for secondary schools. Ecopolitical issues arise from human manipulation of the natural environment and include problems resulting from the limited capacity of the environment to satisfy human needs. High school courses that treat ecopolitical…